In response to
The Head Balancinator does exactly what it sounds like it does. Designed for the user’s 20-month-old with
Perhaps in part due to the rigidity of printed plastics, braces and prosthetics of all kinds seem to be the most readily printable objects for medical purposes. Printed support systems are lightweight, affordable and easily customized to fit the individual needs of a given patient, whether it be Emma’s exoskeleton or Liam’s artificial hand. And, though such devices surely provide plenty of investment opportunities – as covered in our industry report – I’m happy to see hobbyists taking it upon themselves to develop the devices in their own homes and posting them to Thingiverse. Maybe we’ll even see an entire library of free, printable medical devices to complement the optics library we covered back in May (get on it, people!).