SawStop (registered) is an amazing invention that stops a table saw blade from running when a finger makes slight contact with the blade. The blade carries an electrical signal. The human body has a relatively large inherent electrical capacitance and conductivity, which causes the signal to drop with finger contact to the blade;wood does not have the same effect. This ingenious idea will save alot of fingers of careful, neverless human, craftsmen.
Steve's original idea was to license the technology to other table saw manufacturers, but after negotiations failed to produce agreements, he and 2 partners decided they would need to bring the technology to the market themselves. They did it with a number on selling table saw now on the market!
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