Brooklyn engineering school team wins $1 million smart gun competition (VIDEO)

By Chris Eger

Four students from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering won a city-sponsored design contest to create technology to prevent unauthorized users from firing a gun.
The engineering students, Ashwin Raj Kumar, Eddilene Paola Cordero Pardo, Jonathan Ng, and Sy Cohen, mentored by Adjunct Professor Anthony Clarkean, named their team Autonomous Ballistics and submitted a “smart holster” concept that uses fingerprint, RFID and voice recognition technology to release a handgun.
The competition was announced last August by Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams allied with the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, the New York City Police Department, and the Smart Tech Challenge Foundation. Adams pledged $1 million in capital grants from his office to the team from a New York City college or university that developed what was judged to be the best concept.
“When I heard about the competition the summer before the class started I thought it would be a fun project to design a smart gun,” said Cohen, the team leader.
Cohen said the team tried several different approaches to modify the gun itself and failed before switching to an external mechanism.
“We focused on developing an attachment and that turned into a holster,” he said.
Their design, modeled

Source: Guns.com