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Interesting, but the article doesn't give enough information for third parties to duplicate it. The referenced paper "Less sickness with more motion and/or mental distraction" uses a completely different device.

Nor does the article indicate how long the relief persists after removal of the device. The article is also vague about how many people have reported relief.

There's also the question of controls. Assuming the effect is general and real (a stretch at this point), there could be something about the device besides its vibration that leads to relief of symptoms. Nothing along these lines is reported.

I get that this is a blog post and that the author is probably in the process of commercialization, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The article does little to convince.



Re commercialisation he's "Spencer Salter, wellness technology researcher at Jaguar Land Rover" so I guess they'd have first dibs.

That said I'm guessing is must be something like a phone vibrate unit in box strapped behind your ear - probably not so hard to give it a shot at making one. Googling vibrators gives a lot of them for sale though mostly designs what would be embarrassing to strap to your head ;)




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