Author Archive for Margot Hirsch
Smart Tech Director Visits “Press:Here”
Smart Tech Challenges Foundation Director Jim Pitkow joined Press:Here to discuss the launch of the Smart Tech for Firearms Challenge.
Firearms Challenge Makes Headlines
TECHCRUNCH: $1M Prize For Gun Safety Tech Now Taking Applications Famed Silicon Valley investor and gun reform advocate Ron Conway is spearheading a new $1 million prize for gun safety …
Smart Tech for Firearms Challenge Opens
The Smart Tech for Firearms Challenge is opening up its application process starting now, and will accept applications for funding until March 31, 2014.
VIDEO: Backed By Silicon Valley, Newtown Group Launches Safety Campaign For Parents—And Gun Owners
Originally published on FastCompany.com. Today, Newtown nonprofit Sandy Hook Promise is launching Parent Together. The child welfare initiative is backed by Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, AOL, and others and targets …
HS student designs fingerprint-reading smart gun
BOULDER, Colorado — A high school student recently built a prototype of a gun that fires only in the hands of an authorized user, garnering him $50,000 for future development. …
Can ‘Smart Gun’ Technology Help Prevent Violence?
For years, many have dreamed of so-called smart guns, weapons that know their rightful owner and won’t fire in the wrong hands. Think James Bond’s gun in Skyfall. A few …