THE VIDEO SHELF · sawstop safety
Saw Stop - This guy puts a finger into an active table saw blade & comes away without a scratch!
A short clip showing a person touching an active table saw blade with a finger and walking away unharmed, thanks to SawStop's system that stops the blade within milliseconds of skin contact.
Why HN readers recommended it
Linked as the canonical demo of a safety technology that stops a blade before it injures a finger.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Anthony Prezutti Comedy Mentalist
- Topic
- sawstop safety
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2018
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Case in point: [VIDEO] Maybe we need to use your sharp tools point with that video. It drives the point home with even experienced people losing fingers to their tools followed by tech modified to prevent it. The demo also never gets old. Just too …
nickpsecurity on Hacker News · 2016-12
In The Resurgence of C ProgrammingWow, that's super neat, i'd never heard of it. Seems like something that should be absolutely mandatory for all factories equipped with such devices! Go technology! Here's a demonstration, it's very fluffy but it gets the point across. [VIDEO]
toothbrush on Hacker News · 2015-05
In The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car
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