Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Armatix iP1: The Infamous German "Smart Gun"" video.

  1. Have to admit, even though it's not terribly practical, by virtue of getting slippery when wet, i'm a real sucker for guns that have these very sleek shapes. So even though it's just a concept pistol, it's a fairly good looking concept pistol.
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  2.  @ajossi  Well I'd revamp the electronics as well. First of all, I'd remove the LED's. You want to squeeze as much reliability out of any firearm that includes electronics as you possibly can. So having LED's light up is just waste of power, and also it's going to be terrible for shooting in low light conditions since the glowing LED will mess up the shooters night vision. Second, I'd skip using a watch that includes a bunch of controls and options. An RFID chip can be made very small and doesn't require battery power of it's own. It's enough for the reader of the chip to be electrified. So instead of a watch, I'd design a ring for the shooter to wear on his or jer finger with the RFID chip inside of it. And also reduce the range of the reader to the point where the ring basically has to be in contact with the pistol grip for the pistol to fire. Third, I would seriously consider if a dynamo of some kind could be integrated into the gun, and perhaps if the RFID reader could be made in such a way where it reads in "snapshots" whenever the trigger is depressed. As in the reader isn't turned on constantly to check if the RFID chip is nearby or not. The reader only starts up when you pull the trigger and checks for the RFID hex code inside the ring, activates the firing pin for one shot and then shuts itself off before the cycle of the gun has been completed. This I would do to save power but also getting back to my idea with the dynamo, you might actually have the gun being "self powered". As in the dynamo is integrated with the slide, so when you pull the slide to load a bullet into the breech, the slide also winds the dynamo, creating a little charge being stored in a small rechargeable battery or capacitor which powers the RFID reader and the electromagnet. This means that for every round fired, the dynamo will get wound up and hopefully store the necessary charge needed to fire the next round, negating the need for separate batteries altogether.
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  3. Or, if someone were to be so inclined, with my design, it might even be possible to have the RFID chip implanted under the skin of ones hand, in case you don't like the idea of wearing a ring that deactivates the firing pin block. That way, so long as the mechanism works as intended, it would be pretty difficult for anyone other than the designated operator to fire the weapon. Unless you chopped off the operators hand and held it against the pistol grip when shooting that is.
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