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or how about guns that won't fire because you aren't the registered owner (or approved on 'firing list' of some sort, in the case of, let's say, a wife that's home alone when a burglar comes). Brings a whole new meaning to hacking, also.
Bu this doesn't provide the ability to ID, just the ability to sense particular holds.
This needs to leap into the marketplace as soon as possible. The music player concept is brilliant, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. I wonder about the potential of a screen-less touch vocabulary, such that you could type a text message without taking the phone out of your pocket. (Siri is nice and all, but it requires the user to yield control to the Cloud and pray that it responds accurately.)
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Is that a big problem? Why don't the gun owners who perceive that as a problem use the safety or buy a gun with greater trigger pressure? If they don't do those things, why would they want to pay to add this feature?
Drunks cleaning their gun, kids, poor training. All factors in fatal shootings. I am not saying it will solve all this - but if this can be applied, it may easily reduce it.
Or, it can result in more dead people.
Guns that don't go off when the trigger is pulled get people killed.
FWIW, "cleaning their gun" is usually cop for "the family doesn't need the stigma of a suicide ane needs the insurance money if any".
There's also some evidence that a lot of the "kid found a gun" are successful murders (by parents) or, at best, depraved indifference. The families that have them are usually "interesting".
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Bu this doesn't provide the ability to ID, just the ability to sense particular holds.
Which can serve as ID, like a fingerprint or retinal scan.
In fact, wouldn't an actual fingerprint scanner be more effective for this purpose? Having used biometric readers, I frankly would not trust my life to one. Nonetheless, it [fingerprint reader] would be infinitely preferable to any technique that required fine motor control in high adrenaline situations.
edit : this thread made me instantly think of Judge Dredd.
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Drunks cleaning their gun, kids, poor training. All factors in fatal shootings. I am not saying it will solve all this - but if this can be applied, it may easily reduce it.
> but if this can be applied, it may easily reduce it. Or, it can result in more dead people. Guns that don't go off when the trigger is pulled get people killed. FWIW, "cleaning their gun" is usually cop for "the family doesn't need the stigma of a suicide ane needs the insurance money if any". There's also some evidence that a lot of the "kid found a gun" are successful murders (by parents) or, at best, depraved in…
I'd love to see this applied to guns where you have to make a much more intentioned grip for the safety to be disabled. a gun that senses it is being held in a weird way will not fire. I think the first application will be on a mouse. A mouse that has multi-dimensional touch features would be great. This will also make creating an interface to control things like the whole house very easy. Basically enabling complex…
For example, Raymond Veldhuis has been working on smart gun grips that identify their owner since 2003: http://www.sas.el.utwente.nl/open/people/Raymond%20Veldhuis
This needs to leap into the marketplace as soon as possible. The music player concept is brilliant, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. I wonder about the potential of a screen-less touch vocabulary, such that you could type a text message without taking the phone out of your pocket. (Siri is nice and all, but it requires the user to yield control to the Cloud and pray that it responds accurately.)
There's also more important applications for this, for example detecting common postures and grips on fallen asleep drivers or knives that know when their not being handled properly. Additionally a world of possibilities opens up for the blind and disabled if you can inform them of objects they are touching in a room. I find these applications (and surely many more I am not enumerating) much more appealing then contr…
Totally! I actually found it really surprising how boring the potential usage examples in the video were compared to what's possible with some of these ideas.
Worst pun ever.