Inventor of SawStop (registered) Finger Saver - Steve Gass

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!

Phil Avery - Inventor of Folding Cookware

I am looking forward to seeing Phil Avery's folding baking pans on the market. This guy is no chef, but just like the rest of us, he knows the hassle of finding the right pan in a cluttered cupboard and trying to put it back in place. Folding cookware is a great idea! How about color coding the pans so I know which one to use?

1996 - Karl Muller, Inventor of MBT ("Masai" Shoes)

Karl Muller was a swiss engineer that came up with the idea of redistributing the center of gravity of the shoe to the center. He got he idea walking through grass paddies in Korea, noticing that his knees and back hurt less walking through this terrain. He surmised that the Masai tribe in Kenya, recognized for their remarkable posture, had developed such good posture from waliking on natural terrain where their center of gravity is more naturally distributed. He invented today's "Masai" shoes, now popular in many other brands.

1948 - The Invention of VELCRO ® - George de Mestral

The inventor of VELCRO ® was the Swiss George Menstral. In 1948 he was hunting with his dog when he observed the burrs that had stuck onto his dog. He said "I will design a unique, two-sided fastener, one side with stiff hooks like the burrs and the other side with soft loops like the fabric of my pants. I will call my invention 'velcro' a combination of the word velour and crochet."

1850s - Elias Howe, Invented First "Zipper" - and Also the Sewing Machine

1962 - Stewart Adams - Inventor of Ibuprofen - Fascinating Guy!

1890 - Inventor of Electric Windmill - Charles F. Brush