Handy gadget of the day
March 25th, 2004SawStop. A saw that detects what material it’s cutting through, and if it think it’s a finger or some other body part, it stops right away. A really cool video of it in action is available, although they use a hot dog rather than a real human finger, cowards. Apparently it works using electrical pulses and detecting major changes in capacitance. Ain’t technology great?
(via Boing Boing)