What is something considered impossible when you were a kid but is now known to be completely possible or even inevitable?
What is something considered impossible when you were a kid but is now known to be completely possible or even inevitable?
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A battery powered table saw.
Absolutely not a thing in the 1980's, in stock now at your local Lowe's.
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That one does blow me away - I've had a cordless drill for years, but a tablesaw??? - when I realized they even existed I couldn't believe it.
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I mean, when you think about it, it's just a battery-powered circular saw flipped upside-down. Not too crazy to consider like that.
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Battery powered circular saws were also science fiction the day I was born.
Go watch early seasons of The New Yankee Workshop and look for the cordless power drill he uses in the first couple of seasons. It's got this gigantic permanently attached battery hanging out of the hand grip (the hand grip is like a foot long) and it can just barely turn a wood screw.
By the time I was in high school tiny, underpowered circ saws were available that ran on drill batteries. These things had like 5 inch ultrathin blades. Now look at it.
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The first battery powered drills were pretty horrible. Batteries have come a long way
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