Biofire: The First Worthwhile "Smart Gun"? (youtube.com)
They've been developing for 5 years.
It has a bunch of circuitboards inside it, it has as much computing ‘as a smart phone’, he reports. So perhaps these could malfunction at some point, and you would have to constantly check its still working?
It has sensors, including lasers, to know when it is no longer being held. You have to re-authenticate every time you grab it, switch hands, have the gun taken away from you. It is set up using the battery charger. So yeah, the battery has to be kept charged, but I guess you could leave it plugged into the charger.
You register your face on it's backfacing camera and your fingerprint on its fingerprint sensor when you set up the gun. It isn't (currently) connected to the internet, so your data is local. It stores the data encrypted (he didn't say what encryption). It has an IR camera so it does work in the dark.
It's marketed at home defense in homes with small children or roommates.
The trigger isn't connected to the firing. It's an electronic system. Does that mean it can break if you drop it?
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