If you are one of those people who gets dizzy quite easily when traveling by car or other vehicles, Samsung It has an app for you that can be useful and for which, in addition, it will not charge you anything. The mobile manufacturer launched this Tuesday a new free application called Hearapynow available for devices Android through Google Play Store. According to the company, Hearapy can reduce the symptoms of motion sickness when traveling, in a car or other means of transportation, using only sound.
Dizziness occurs when the information received by the vestibular systemthe parts of the inner ear responsible for orientation and maintaining balance, conflicts with what the eyes see and with other body references, for example, when the inner ear detects movement, but the eyes are fixed on a book or inside the car.
For these situations, the app plays a low 100 Hz sine wave tone through headphones connected during 60 seconds. In this way, ‘stimulates your balance system and promotes well-being during the trip’as Samsung explains in the app description.
Hearapy allows you to adjust the duration of the tone between 40 and 120 secondsbut you’re supposed to listen to it for a full minute provides relief from the symptoms of motion sickness when traveling during two hours. Can be repeated when necessary.
Samsung assures that the app is inspired by research carried out by the Nagoya Universityin Japan, published last year, which concludes that Certain sound wavelengths help reduce ‘the staggering and discomfort felt by people asked to read a document in a moving vehicle’. However, it is not a guaranteed solution and its effectiveness may vary depending on the headphones used, which must be able to reproduce low frequencies.
Samsung recommends combining the app with its Galaxy Buds 4 Pro. If you use other headphones, they should be able to play the tone at a volume between 80 and 85 decibels to make it more effective.