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Fail-Safe vs. Fail-Deadly (with Colin Furze)

2014-06-09

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channel thumbTom Scott

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WITH THANKS TO: Colin Furze - http://youtube.com/colinfurze - for letting me try his Magneto shoes, and Matt Gray - http://mattg.co.uk - on camera!

"Fail-safe" doesn't mean "we have a backup", it means "if this fails, nobody gets hurt". So I went to see the master of inventions that aren't failsafe, Colin Furze, for a more visual demonstration.