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Announcement: Smart Tech Firearms Reliability Challenge
The Smart Tech Challenges Foundation was formed to spur innovation in firearm safety, and our elite field of innovators are working on technologies that improve safety through the integration of …
Smart guns locked to owners’ identities could stop needless deaths
Originally published in New Scientist London. What is your foundation’s approach to the US gun situation? It’s a polarising issue in this country – the political system is gridlocked. Many …
Teen Develops Smart Gun Unlocked by Fingerprint
Originally published in Voice of America. Smart Tech Challenges Foundation’s innovator Kai Kloepfer was 16 years old when he won the INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair. He had designed a …
Smart guns: They’re ready. Are we?
Originally published in Fortune: Doug, who runs the website smartgunz.com, asks us not to use his last name or to identify the town where he works. “I’m just in Nebraska,” …
Monroe boy, 11, injured in accidental shooting
MONROE — An 11-year-old boy was shot in the cheek Sunday afternoon when his father’s gun accidentally went off in an adjacent room. Police responded to the home — on Partridge …
One teenager killed, another injured in Coon Rapids shooting
A 14-year-old girl was injured and a 15-year-old boy died Monday afternoon in what an Anoka County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson called “a tragic, tragic situation.” Police say the girl was …
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]
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 …