17-Year-Old Guy Awarded $50,000 for His Gun Inventions
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Written by: NiRA
There is a group from Silicon Valley which gave a 17 year-old guy named Kai Kloepfer $50,000 to carry on his experiments with guns.
The Smart Tech Challenges Foundation which is centred in California’s tech capital, announced that it is sponsoring a young inventor who is from Colorado and is assimilating a biometric sensor into a weapon that demands a certified user’s fingerprint to release, and they also claim that the sensor is 99.99% exact with fingerprint identification even with fractional prints. 
Kai Kloepfer is a high school student from Boulder, Colorado and is Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) 2013 Grand Award winner and he is the first Benefactor of the $1 million Smart Tech for Firearms Challenge.
The foundation stated in a release that they will be awarding grants to a total of 15 inventors who areworking to improve weapon safety by evolving customization features in weapons, locking devices and ammunition systems.
Kai stated:-
“It’s going to be my generation – the ones who have grown up with digital technology and electronic integration – that will lead the way in the development and adoption of smart gun technology.”
“This type of technology has previously only existed in science fiction movies. But young people are open to exploring our options as consumers and as innovators. I have real hope that we can apply biometric technology to firearms in order to reduce accidental deaths and injuries, and to prevent tragedies.”
Ron Conway is well-known Silicon Valley investor and the founding contributor to the Smart Tech Challenges Foundation; he said that it’s time for a major upgrade in gun technology.
Conway stated in an interview with the Washington Post:-
“We need the iPhone of guns”
And through the immense attention that Apple earned with their upcoming series of iPhone and Apple Watch smart technology, gun investors who wanted to push the industry in the biotech empire may get some real assistance.
Conway added:-
“The entrepreneur who does this right could be the Mark Zuckerberg of guns,”
Smart Tech announced the following info:-
“Kai is receiving the $50,000 grant to apply toward the integration of a fingerprint scanner, which can be programmed for a virtually unlimited number of users, from a plastic model of a Beretta Px4 Storm onto a live firearm. The sensor that Kai is working with boasts a 99.99% accurate fingerprint recognition rate—even with partial prints. He has already used a part of his Foundation grant to purchase a professional-grade 3D printer to create new parts for his prototype.”
Smart Tech tells that the young inventor Kai began working on his technology parts as a reaction to the shooting at the movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado, the theatre is just about an hour’s drive from his residence. On September 13th Kai will be speaking at TEDx Mile High: CONVERGENCE in Denver, Colorado to discuss his advanced technological approach to weapons safety.
