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I'm disappointed that I can't find anything online describing his actual invention, I'm curious to see what it is. The system I'm familiar with is SawStop (htt

• mikeknoop 16y ago
  In all of SawStop's demonstration videos they use a hotdog to simulate a human finger. But surely at one point the inventors had to really see if their invention worked on a finger... I can only imagine.
  • slyn 16y ago
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMD3agP5hv0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMD3agP5hv0 The guy does it in this video, pretty sure it was in a comment on HN a while back.
    • jacquesm 16y ago
      Now that's what I call eating your own dogfood. Impressive.
    • vl 16y ago
      I suspect that a lot of saw operators wear gloves. I wonder how well it works for the gloved hand. Also guy on video wet his hand before the test, kind of cheating a bit.
• ars 16y ago
  It's patent #7228773 (Radial arm saw safety top) and/or #7171880 (Dust collection for panel saw). http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=f_WcAAAAEBAJ http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=f_WcAAAAEBAJ http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=39J-AAAAEBAJ http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=39J-AAAAEBAJ http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7228773.html http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7228773.html http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7171880.html http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7171880.html Also this, which does not seem to have been granted: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=fdWYAAAAEBAJ http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=fdWYAAAAEBAJ http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2006/0225550.html http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2006/0225550.html