I'm sorry, Dave, I can't let you fire your weapon, that would be racist, Islamophobic, homophobic and misogynistic, you being a straight White Christian male and all.
Posted on 01/08/2016 6:01:39 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
...Ron Conway, the San Francisco angel investor, helped to pioneer the Smart Tech Challenges Foundation, which put up $1 million to fund a variety of ideas that advance gun lock technology. The goal had been to create the "iPhone of guns," Conway said...
...at least some of the more than 30,000 gun deaths each year would be avoided if there were smart guns. In theory, the technology would reduce gun suicides, gun deaths from accidents and deaths involving stolen guns. Smart guns might have particular appeal to law enforcement who have to worry about their weapons being used against them in tense situations.
Conway's foundation gave money to 15 entrepreneurs working on smart gun technology, including "smart ammunition." The highest amounts went to those closest to bringing the product to market. Some of the projects focus on firearms that can be fired only when they receive a radio signal from someone with a watch or ring. Other guns unlock when they identify the owner's fingerprint or grip. The foundation has given grants to entrepreneurs working on mechanical locks to better secure guns.
...why shouldn't Silicon Valley get involved? We live in a world where technology has personalized many products -- our phone, our cars, even our smoke detectors. If tech can make a gun safer -- yes, it sounds like an oxymoron -- and make some money, venture capitalists should create smart gun funds much like they do with funds focused on specific sectors such as clean tech. Companies already working on RFID, biometrics and global positioning systems (for finding lost or stolen guns) should jump in as well. The personalized gun is not a panacea that will end gun deaths. But it would be a better gun if it works only in the owner's hands.
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But overall, she puts her faith in Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to come up with safe guns.
Why? I won’t buy one.
It’s certainly the latest opening to defraud the taxpayers if Ubama’s EO goes anywhere. The solar panel fraud has run its course.
Considering that Microsoft can’t get Windows right (full of security holes), can’t imagine them getting into the smart gun software business.
Of course not. Most people won’t. Just alerting everybody to a new push to get Silicon Valley to fix a non-problem. Use the info as you see fit.
Exactly right. They flushed billions on solar and car batteries. Now they can flush another billion on this. Democrat cronies lining up at the trough as we breathe.
they really should not. libtards cant wait to encourage more companies to be part of the liability pools and be controlled under government regulations they currently are not under. damn fascists.
No one is going to buy it
Liberal rag
“any attempt to shoot a senior ____ employee results in shutdown”.
Bah, this a gibmedat subsidy screed.
A “safe” gun is one that absolutely reliably goes “BANG” when the legitimate owner needs it to. False negatives are intolerable.
I couldn’t imagine a gun running Widows 10. I’ll stay with my old tech guns.
There is no smart gun market.
Hi Tech crap is just that. Hi Tech crap. It will be a cold day in he!! before I’d buy one of these so called “smart” guns.
So how exactly would a “smart guy” prevent the two-thirds of the so called “gun violence deaths” which are suicides?
I'm sorry, Dave, I can't let you fire your weapon, that would be racist, Islamophobic, homophobic and misogynistic, you being a straight White Christian male and all.
Get used to these words “type emergency password”. Because you will see those words a lot. I have used high end fingerprint readers on PC’s and they suck. I have used the android fingerprint login and it sucks. They all suck and a smart gun would suck too. You will be dead way before you can log in.
That’s right. Another slush fund for DemoRats. If any industry doesn’t need help with R&D it’s the firearms industry. There are hundreds of individuals working on something new at any given time in history much less the employees of manufacturers. Those firearms makers who have been enjoying historic gains in stock values during the worst economy in decades.
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