Goggles could eliminate air sickness

Technology may have found a way to reduce that nauseous feeling some of us get when flying.

A new goggle invention that effectively gives passengers a sense of balance, even though they are on a moving aircraft, may be the answer.

That feeling of air sickness is thought to be caused by a contradiction between what your eyes are telling your brain and the signals being received from the inner ear, which influences balance.

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The goggles work by getting wearers to view a virtual horizon and if the plane shifts to one side, so too will the view, effectively tricking the passenger's eyes and brain.

The system, designed by In-flight entertainment company Flow IFE, can also present travellers with high quality images of their destination that replicate the time of day to help them acclimatise to their new time zone

Unfortunately, the cure for air sickness will set you back as much as $987 for a set.