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Bosch has announced that their new GTS1041A REAXX Portable Jobsite Table Saw will be their first saw to use their proprietary flesh-detecting Active Response Technology to help reduce table saw blade injury. The system on the Bosch REAXX Table Saw can detect when human flesh comes into contact with the saw blade, and in response will drop the blade under the tabletop to reduce injury.

A toolbox holds your tools—but when you want it to do more, you might need to get yourself a Coolbox. The Coolbox is a new project up in Indiegogo that has already raised over $260,000 of their $50,000 goal. What makes the Coolbox so cool? It is packed full of technology to help make your tool using experience more enjoyable.

Do tool chests need to be made of metal? Well if Keter is making them, their answer is no, as Keter is a manufacturer of plastic products. Their modular tool chest system will allow users to customize their tool storage to match their needs, and adjust as they grow.

Although a truck is more suited for hauling cargo in its bed, as many families have SUV’s, it will often be tasked as the de facto hauler. So wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to keep the cargo area of your SUV protected when you need to bring home bags of potting soil, rolls of sod, or just messy outdoor sporting gear? LeeValley is selling a new SUV cargo liner that does all this and more.

Is this the year of cordless brushless drywall screwdrivers or what? Not long after the other brands announce their models, Bosch hits us with their very own. So what sets the Bosch SGH182 Screwgun apart from the rest? At 3.5lbs with a 4.0Ah battery, it is the lightest of the bunch, but it might also be the most powerful.

X-Carve is the latest desktop 3D Carving machine from Inventables Inc., the makers of the the popular Shapeoko 2 3D Carving CNC machine and other cnc desktop machines. With the X-Carve, Inventables is bringing affordable 3D carving to makers with a machine that can mill plastic, wood, and even metal at a starting price of only $799.

Rockwell is proving that they can keep up with the big boys by coming out with their own brushless Drill & Impact Driver Combo Kit. Their brushless motor technology increases battery runtime by 50% per charge over brushed motors and is backed by a 10-year warranty.

This March Festool will be coming out with their new Conturo KA 65 Edge Bander, a portable and simple, yet versatile edge bander system. Where typical edge banders can be quite expensive and limit you to only edge banding straight surfaces, the Festool Conturo KA 65 promises to do a lot more, for less.

The mechanics behind a CNC router, a laser cutter, and a 3D Printer are mostly the same, so why not make a machine that can do all three with interchangeable heads.? That is the idea behind the CNC Piranha Fx, a new project that is seeking funding on Kickstarter from the makers of the CNC Shark.

DeWalt wants drywall carpenters to Get More Done, thanks to their new DCF620 20V Max Brushless Lithium Ion Drywall Screwgun with Extended Runtime battery packs. The combination, they say, is what professionals need to get the job done without the hassle of long extension cords.