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Handgun Fires Only When In Proximity To Owner’s Watch

Handgun Fires Only When In Proximity To Owner’s Watch

By Kyle Studstill on January 29, 2010

The Armatix .22 handgun is specially designed to fire only when in proximity to a specially-synced watch worn by the weapon’s owner. This electronic safety could potentially work well in law enforcement as a safeguard against police weapons falling into criminal hands.

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Kyle Studstill is a regular contributor to PSFK.com. Kyle works as a consultant working at the New York office of PSFK. His background is in analysis, from the analysis of cultural and technological change, to analysis of consumer and human insight, to military intelligence analysis with the US Intelligence and Security Command. Kyle loves the future, much like O'Brien from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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