If, like me, you suffer from motion sickness, then you know just how quickly a trip down Britain's winding back roads can turn into a nausea-inducing nightmare. But if you struggle to hold on to your lunch as the car starts to lurch, there may soon be a solution. ClearMotion, a Boston-based startup, claims that its latest generation of cutting-edge suspension can'eliminate motion sickness' for good. So, with anti-nausea tablets in hand, MailOnline's reporter, Wiliam Hunter, took a trip to their Warwickshire testing facility to try it for himself. With compact motors tucked away above each wheel and a sophisticated onboard computer, the system can push and pull the wheels to cancel out bumps in the road.

And, for the one in three people who are especially prone to motion sickness, the inevitable nausea can be an almost daily inconvenience. But now one company says it has the solution for beating travel sickness - and could even help with the juddering experience of driving along pothole-pocked terrains. ClearMotion - a Massachusetts-based startup which has locations in Birmingham, UK, and Shanghai, China - has just announced a $1 billion deal to create a futuristic chassis that claims to cancel unwanted car motion. By adapting the vehicle to the road, this high-tech suspension allows a car to actively cancel out bumps in the road. Car sickness is caused by small repeated motions in the vehicle.

The obstacle course was a series of speed bumps in a parking lot at the headquarters of ClearMotion, a supplier of high-tech chassis parts for production cars. The challengers were a late-model Mercedes-Benz and a 2016 BMW 535i equipped with the company's technology -- an electrically powered hydraulic device meant to complement the venerable shock absorber and keep the passenger compartment as level as possible. ClearMotion's technology greatly smoothed the way, significantly reducing not just the movement up and down, but also the right-left lurch from bumps on either side. And while the system doesn't make speed bumps obsolete, its goal is to become the kind of system that car owners won't be able to live without once self-driving technology turns them from drivers into passengers. Shakeel Avadhany, the founder and chief executive of ClearMotion, said he had been inspired by the ride in Japanese bullet trains, which can reach 200 m.p.h. with little sensation of movement.

News about Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related research areas. Controlling your gadgets by talking to them is so 2018. In the future, you will not even have to move your lips. A prototype device called AlterEgo, created by Arnav Kapur, a 23-year old MIT Media Lab graduate student, is already making this possible. With Kapur's device -- a 3-D-printed plastic doodad that looks kind of like a skinny white banana attached to the side of his head -- he can flip through TV channels, change the colors of lightbulbs, make expert chess moves, solve complicated arithmetic problems, and order a pizza, all without saying a word or lifting a finger.

Fully autonomous cars could make your travel time a lot more productive in the coming years--just think of all the things you could do if you didn't have to pay attention to driving. Though they're not that common yet, self-driving cars are moving toward consumer use, with companies like Google's Waymo testing them out on public roads. And these cars are likely to inflate the problem of motion sickness, which is caused when a person's eyes and inner ears send conflicting signals to the brain: the ear detects the motion of the automobile, but the eye sees the stationary surroundings of the interior. Driving helps mitigate the effects because it helps to constantly observe outside movement, but autonomous cars would take that crutch away. Without the need for a driver, it may also be more challenging for passengers to anticipate the car's motion and more likely that riders will be facing backwards or sideways rather than straight ahead--both things that can make you want to hurl.