American student in secondary develops smart gun works not only fingerprint

Enables American student in high school, named Kai Kloepfer, development of intelligent pistol depends on the fingerprint to work, and won the award for his invention of the student $ 50,000 in the contest "smart technical challenge of firearms" Smart Tech for Firearms.

Belongs Kay, aged 17 years, to the city of Boulder, Colorado, known for its long history of armed violence, and was one of the incidents of violence in the state's why in this invention.

The gun works by creating a personal identifier for the user ID and lock it to work on the fingerprint of each user is permitted to use the gun, which means that the gun will open only with the identification of a unique fingerprint.

Kay Kloepfer

Kay said, interested in the field of information security, said that all user data stored on the gun only, ie it is not being filed and saved in any other place, the question of what makes it difficult to penetrate, which is what makes the gun suitable for military use.

It is noteworthy that this gun is not a smart first of its kind, where the German company introduced earlier this year, smart gun depends on the frequency RFID technology not only shoots from the hand of the owner, nor in the case of stolen works.