Holy crap!

[Alex Franke]

Just watched it again... Every part of his brain was probably saying, "WTF are you DOING?!?!" -- a genuine body-over-mind experience... probably like bungee jumping. (Although at least in bungee jumping you don't slow to a halt in 1/1000 second!)

It reminds me of talking to the guy who started Rokenbok a while back. He said the little balls they made were choke-proof. I asked him how he knew that, and he said he inhaled one just to be sure.

[herb fellows]

Given the limited number he has sold, it almost seems as if he should give a camcorder away with each on to be trained on the machine while it's in use. I believe they have at least a half a dozen cases of people saying it saved their digits. As impressive as that was, a real time incident would be a lot more so. Except that it would inspire stupid people to try stupid things, I would say even offer a sizeable reward for the first 'really good' (really bad?) video.
My gut is that you would have more damage in a real incident, but I still wouldn't do that for all the tea in China, as they say.

[Ed62]

That was really impressive, but it's hard to believe he didn't have even a mark on his finger if it actually touched the blade. I think gjat got it right. Even so, if you're gonna stick your finger into a moving blade, you'll likely wish it was on a SawStop.

Ed