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Holly told Michelle the chore that I did today: "Sweeping the sky." She came up with that description after seeing me dusting the cobwebs in our house. Kind of funny the way that kids translate things to their frame of reference.
On NPR the other day I heard this news story about this potential new technology for table saws called "Sawstop". It was pretty incredible. I guess 40,000 people a year, in the US, go to the hospital every year due to injuries received from tablesaws, 3000 of that number are amputations. So these two guys, a patent attorney and an engineer designed and patented "Sawstop". By having the blade of the tablesaw connected to a mild powersource, a small device in the saw can tell if it scratches a person's flesh. Then within .03 seconds it fires a spring loaded aluminum bar through the blade and it drops down below the table's surface. It was amazing, but perhaps more amazing is the refusal of any tool manufacture to have any interest in licensing the technology for use on their brands. Black & Decker, Ryobi, Delta, and many others refuse on the basis of liability to use the technology.
Am I the only one that find something wrong with this????? Probably not, that why there was the story on NPR, but it was incredible.
But check out www.npr.org for the story, you can listen to the story, and actually see a video clip of a demonstration on a jolly-time hot dog, which supposedly has the same electrical conductivity as a human finger. Ick.
Holly told Michelle the chore that I did today: "Sweeping the sky." She came up with that description after seeing me dusting the cobwebs in our house. Kind of funny the way that kids translate things to their frame of reference.
On NPR the other day I heard this news story about this potential new technology for table saws called "Sawstop". It was pretty incredible. I guess 40,000 people a year, in the US, go to the hospital every year due to injuries received from tablesaws, 3000 of that number are amputations. So these two guys, a patent attorney and an engineer designed and patented "Sawstop". By having the blade of the tablesaw connected to a mild powersource, a small device in the saw can tell if it scratches a person's flesh. Then within .03 seconds it fires a spring loaded aluminum bar through the blade and it drops down below the table's surface. It was amazing, but perhaps more amazing is the refusal of any tool manufacture to have any interest in licensing the technology for use on their brands. Black & Decker, Ryobi, Delta, and many others refuse on the basis of liability to use the technology.
Am I the only one that find something wrong with this????? Probably not, that why there was the story on NPR, but it was incredible.
But check out www.npr.org for the story, you can listen to the story, and actually see a video clip of a demonstration on a jolly-time hot dog, which supposedly has the same electrical conductivity as a human finger. Ick.
posted by Tim @ 10:36 PM
1 Comments:
At 4:01 AM ,
Kyle Wash said...
the reason that major manufatures turn away from this SAWSTOP technology is that the cost of them installing it on there product is probably way to high per product. If you stand back and think about all the people that use there products(homeowners, constrution, etc) that is millions of users. Then you factor in the 40k of people taht cut themselves, which may or may not have been drinking. The percentage there is probably less than One Percent. The percentage of amputes to the accidents is less than Ten percent.
Its an obvious choice by the manufactures. People who choose to opperate thus equipment must obide by certain rules. If they dont they will get hurt, its the way it goes. Damn pussies gotta find a reason to sue anyone. It'll come to that, look at McDonalds and the hot coffee.
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