Finally, a hammock for your head
Getting a good, relaxing nap while travelling over long distances has always been an impossible dream, but now someone claims to have come up with “the ultimate sleep travel solution”.
After deciding she'd had enough of sleepless commuting for work, Kentucky-based designer Paula Blankenship decided it was time for a superior alternative to the common travel pillow or a sweatshirt mashed up against the car window. After several prototypes, she came up with the NodPod, a sort of hammock for your head that sits under your chin and attaches to the headrest of a plane, train or automobile with Velcro.
“It looks ugly, but it feels fantastic,” Blakenship says.
The reason it's hard to rest or sleep while traveling is because you can't keep your head, neck and back perpendicular and at a 90-degree angle similar to how you sleep in bed at night, she explained. This patented solution provides the solution to amazing sleep while traveling by recreating how you sleep on a bed, but in an upright position.
NodPod is currently looking for Kickstarter support to get off the ground. Over 2,000 people have already helped propel their goal of $20,000 to almost $80,000 with 21 days left in the fundraising.
For Blankenship, it's a lifelong dream realized.
“This has been my passion on my life… and at 53 it feels good to finally do something and see it through with a patent. This time, I just said, you know ... 'I'm going to make this happen.'”
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