Most of us have probably by now seen the SawStop brand of self-stopping table saw, which detects when something meatier than wood has the bad taste to touch the spinning blade, more or less ...
Table saws are dangerous. An inventor came up with a device that could make them much, much safer, but it sparked a decades long fight over the tradeoff of costs and safety. How to balance the two?
I am the inventor of SawStop. FOUNTAIN: What does SawStop do? GASS: SawStop is a technology for table saws that, if you run your hand into the blade, it stops it so quick, you just get a little ...