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This Colorado Teen Is Championing Gun Safety With One Innovative Idea
Originally published by PolicyMic. Source: Smart Tech Foundation The news: A Colorado high school student, Kai Kloepfer, has developed a way to make guns exponentially safer: a fingerprint scanner that unlocks the weapon. …
STCF Grantee Speaks at TEDxMileHigh in Denver, Colorado
Smart Tech Challenges Foundation grantee Kai Kloepfer spoke about his cutting edge firearms safety technology at TEDxMileHigh: CONVERGENCE in Denver on September 13, 2014. [codepeople-post-map]
Colorado High Schooler Invents Smart Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint
Originally published by TechCrunch. Colorado has a history with gun violence so it’s only appropriate that 17-year-old Kai Kloepfer, a high school student from Boulder, would want to apply biometric …
Teen’s Invention Could Stop Kids From Accidental Gun Deaths! See His $50,000 Grant Winning Design HERE!
Originally published on PerezHilton.com. Kai Kloepfer is a 17-year-old with an incredible idea that might save a ton of lives. He invented a device that uses fingerprint sensors to keep …
MTV.com: This Teen’s Brilliant Invention Could Prevent Accidental Gun Deaths
Originally published on MTV.com. 17-year-old Kai Kloepfer’s invention might’ve just solved one of America’s biggest issues—accidental gun deaths. The teen has invented a device that uses fingerprint sensors to prohibit …
This 17-Year-Old’s Brilliant Invention May Lower Accidental Gun Deaths In America
(Fox31) BOULDER, Colo. – A 17-year-old inventor in Boulder will receive a $50,000 grant to help develop a biometric sensor designed to prevent unauthorized people from firing guns. “I’ve been …
This 17-Year-Old’s Brilliant Invention May Lower Accidental Gun Deaths In America
Originally published on the Huffington Post. Seventeen-year-old Kai Kloepfer’s idea for a finger-print sensitive smart gun came to him in a dream. This week, the Colorado teen won a $50,000 …
Group Gives 17-Year-Old $50,000 for His Gun Innovations
Originally published at the Blaze. There’s a group from Silicon Valley that just gave a 17-year-old $50,000 to keep playing with guns. The Smart Tech Challenges Foundation, based in California’s …