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Re: Article on Skin sensing table saw

Dean Kames once said something along the lines of "Every engineering project is a solution to a problem, but not every engineering solution is something the public needs."

I believe this invention is a marvelous idea, but it just isn't practical in the real world. Once you (a company) start claiming things to be safe, all it takes is one equipment malfunction and you're really in trouble.

The problem I have with things like this is that the easier you make it for people to do something, the lesser skilled they become. I think technology like this would put power tools in the hands of people who really have no business using tools. Power tools are nto for everyone, there's no changing that fact.

I mean seriously, what are they going to do, safen every dangerous tool out there? Put a compressable sleeve over dril bits? Permanently affix a shield into a welder's head? Make an oxy-acetylene torch that you can't point at yourself?

No invention should ever replace simple diligence when it comes to using power tools.
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