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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Tech. I'm Larry Greenemeier. Got a minute?
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2 .Competitions, contests and challenges have become a potent way to inspire and fund innovation.
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3 .The X PRIZE alone is shelling out tens of millions of dollars to incentivize scientists and engineers to develop new medical technologies, study the oceans and explore the moon.
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4 .Now one of the more unlikely competitions out there seeks to make firearms safer.
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5 .What's called the Smart Tech Challenges Foundation last month launched its Firearms Challenge.
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6 .The goal: find technology that reliably authorizes approved use and blocks the unauthorized use of guns and ammunition.
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7 .So-called smartguns have been in the works for years but haven't gotten much traction.
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8 .The German company Armatix makes an intelligent pistol that requires the shooter to wear a special radio-frequency-ID-equipped wristwatch to activate the weapon.
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9 .Ireland's TriggerSmart likewise makes a gun unlocked by radio waves, as long as the shooter wears a special ring.
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10 .Other companies rely on fingerprints and other biometrics or even sensors and smartphone apps to unlock their weapons.
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11 .Questions about the reliability of such high-tech weapons and, of course, politics have kept them from catching on the U.S.
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12 .But efforts to improve firearm safety, including via smartguns, are worth a shot.
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13 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Tech. I'm Larry Greenemeier.
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