thumb|300px|Saw Stop table saw used at former TechShop in [[Redwood City California]] SawStop is an American table saw manufacturer headquartered in Tualatin, Oregon. The company was founded in 2000 to manufacture table saws that feature a patented automatic braking system that stops the blade upon contact with skin or flesh. This aims to minimize injuries that are relatively common when working with normal table saws.
thumb|300px|Saw Stop table saw used at former TechShop in [[Redwood City California]] SawStop is an American table saw manufacturer headquartered in Tualatin, Oregon. The company was founded in 2000 to manufacture table saws that feature a patented automatic braking system that stops the blade upon contact with skin or flesh. This aims to minimize injuries that are relatively common when working with normal table saws.
==Mechanism== According to the manufacturer's website, the saw blade stops in less than five milliseconds, while angular momentum retracts the blade into the table. The operator suffers a minor injury instead of a serious one. The design takes advantage of the difference in conductance and capacitance between wood and flesh.
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