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As 2016 comes to a close, it’s time to look back on the companies and products that made this year unique.

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Nineteen-year-old Kai Kloepfer is at the helm of Biofire Technologies, a start-up dedicated to producing the world’s first fully functional smart gun.

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High school senior and boy genius Kai Kloepfer decided to put his smarts to work on developing a biometric safety measure on firearms — or a fingerprint reader. Last year when he was just a 17-year-old high school student from Boulder, Colorado, Kloepfer won a $50,000 grant last September to help push his work further. He was the first […]

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A 17-year-old teen won a $50,000 grant from Smart Tech Challenges Foundation -- a Silicon Valley group awarding grants to private entities that improve smart gun technology -- for developing a biometric sensor that would prevent unauthorized users from firing a gun.

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