3D-printed tool for relieving neck soreness raising $25K

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When Corey Fleischer, cofounder of the Baltimore Foundery makerspace, won the first season of the Discovery Channel‘s “The Big Brain Theory,” the mechanical engineering graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, told Technical.ly Baltimore he was mulling over his next move.
Now he has made it, along with a team of three others: the ARC, a portable device for relieving neck soreness.
This isn’t the typical “tech hack” associated with Baltimore’s tech community, but a device for getting rid of a sore neck is probably useful for the developers who spend hours a day in front of their computer screens. A physical therapist thought up the ARC, but it was Fleischer who designed and 3D-printed the original and latest prototypes of the device.
He and his team are now raising $25,000 on Kickstarter to cover the costs of mass production.
Here’s how the ARC works (there’s also a video below): after it’s set on the floor, the user places their neck onto several “pressure points” on the contraption, almost as if they were lying their head on their bedroom pillow.
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