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Sunday, January 15, 2006 

Saw... OF THE FUTURE!

Via Gord I hear of this new revolutionary table saw, which is apparently pretty idiot proof. It detects the "inherent electrical capacitance" of the human body (or even a hot dog, as the videos on the site show), and rams a block of aluminum into the saw blade if the blade touches flesh. In practice, this means the blade stops dead and drops into the table in 1/200th of a second.

Which is really cool, but I'm concerned that if it won't work on hot dogs that means you wouldn't be able to use it on a zombie.



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