Med över 7,8 miljoner prenumeranter på sin YouTube-kanal, en bakgrund inom TV och en kultfavorit - Colin Furze är uppfinnaren Uppfinnaren för det 21:a århundradet. Han är känd för uppfinningar som inte ens de mest fantasifulla människor skulle kunna föreställa sig - hans repertoar inkluderar världens snabbaste skoter, ett snurrande knivbälte och en cykel med hjul gjorda av solid is.
His YouTube videos have reached an audience of more than 824 million and inspired children to go to school dressed up as him for world book days. He is doing for STEM perhaps what David Attenborough did for plastic pollution – raising awareness on a subject that has always been present but has been largely overlooked.
Hans verkstad rymmer en arsenal av verktyg, utrustning och klottrad design på bitar av gammal sly, men det är hans senaste tillskott som är juvelen i hans krona. Citerar det som "livsförändrande" på sin webbplats,The Swifty har varit ett spännande och innovativt tillskott till hans kollektion. Det som blåste bort honom var hur lätt The Swifty var att ställa in och springa – han förväntade sig inte att skapa inom några timmar efter att ha fått det. Maskinens kapacitet är extraordinär och han har imponerats av hur mycket han kan göra.
When Swift-Cut asked Colin how he was getting on with his machine, his exact words were:
"Jag älskar det. Om du försökte ta bort den från mig, skulle jag slåss mot dig!"
It’s no understatement to say that he’s thrilled. Prior to The Swifty, he either struggled with an angle grinder or he simply couldn’t create his designs. Being held back by substandard equipment was stifling, such creativity and imagination needed a machine that could translate it and bring it all to life.
Asked where he gets his ideas from, Colin laughed,
"Ibland föds de i min hjärna, ibland från filmer, YouTube-prenumeranter kommenterar ... världen omkring mig verkligen..."
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It’s not hard to see why he has so many followers on social media. When haven’t you wanted to watch someone let off hundreds of thousands of fireworks at once, just because? His irreverent, almost skewed imagination has created some of the wackiest inventions ever seen. But more than that, they work – they showcase an exceptional engineering brain and skillset that is years in the making.
He now uses The Swifty for pretty much every project. He’ll often start an invention without intending to use it and then realise that utilising The Swifty could make it better, or easier, or add an extra element to his invention that he hadn’t previously planned for.
Fitting nicely into his workshop, The Swifty’s portability and footprint were two big reasons Colin chose Swift-Cut. And as much as he would also love to add a Swift-Cut Pro machine to his collection, one gets the feeling that the ingenious and gutsy Furze and the small but feisty Swifty are actually a match made in heaven.
