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Samsung’s new app claims to alleviate motion sickness using sound

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Listening to a 100Hz sine wave tone for just 60 seconds could reduce motion sickness symptoms for up to two hours. Listening to a 100Hz sine wave tone for just 60 seconds could reduce motion sickness symptoms for up to two hours. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you buy something from a link, The Verge may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Samsung released a new free app today called Hearapy, now available for Android devices through the Google Play store, that it claims can reduce the symptoms of motion sickness using just sound. The app’s functionality is very straightforward. It plays a low 100Hz sine wave tone through a pair of connected headphones for 60 seconds. This is supposed to stimulate the vestibular system — the parts of the inner ear that are responsible f

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