French car manufacturer Citroen has developed a simple pair of plastic glasses that they claim can reduce or eliminate childhood car sickness. It’s possible that with these £89 (or roughly $113) glasses, motion sickness on long road trips could quickly become a thing of the past.
Creative Construction
These simple specs are designed specifically for children at the moment, but there’s no reason that these couldn’t be developed for adults in the near future. The “Seetroen,” as they have been called by manufacturer Citroen, are made of plastic for a durable, cost-effective solution that’s reasonably inexpensive to produce. Today the world makes and consumes about 600 billion pounds of plastic yearly, and the market is still growing about 5% a year.
The lenses are large enough to be worn over any corrective eyewear, making them accessible to the one in four U.S. children that has a vision problem that could interfere with learning and behavior. This makes them perfect for young children who enjoy reading or playing video games on long road trips but typically are unable to due to motion sickness on the road.
How Do They Work?
The trick of these glasses isn’t, as one might suspect, in the lenses at all. Instead, the secret to these innovative lenses lies in a small tube of colored fluid that rests in the edges of the frame. This colored liquid supposedly creates the illusion of a horizon, helping the brain to regain its sense of direction. This tackles one of the primary causes of motion sickness, particularly for passengers in the backseat of a vehicle or passengers looking downward at reading material where the horizon may not be immediately visible.
While originally designed to help sailors avoid sea-sickness, these creative lenses are perfect for long road trips with your little ones. Citroen claims that these glasses are able to correct motion sickness in as little as twelve minutes in up to 95% of users. Currently, the frames are available for £89, or roughly $113, but if this creative solution to motion sickness takes off, it’s possible the price will be lowered in the future. It’s possible that these unique lenses could make motion sickness a thing of the past, so get ready for easier road trips with your family very soon.
Do you or your kids experience motion sickness in the car? If so, do you think these odd lenses might help them on longer road trips?
