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Design and Architecture
Design and Architecture

Police academy, smart gun, eat the river

Hosted by Frances Anderton Oct. 11, 2016
The LAPD Academy in Elysian Park has undergone a makeover, as the department adapts to an era of community policing. An MIT freshman has created what's believed to be the first fingerprint-enabled smart gun. And a French artist finds inspiration in the cracked concrete of the Los Angeles River.

Photo: Biofire's first smart gun. (Biofire Technologies)

From this Episode:

Police academy gets a makeover

Where might you find the safest café in all of LA? How about the one at the Los Angeles Policy Academy in Elysian Park? The public cafe and restaurant at the LAPD's training...

9 min

Smart teenager creates smart gun

There has been a lot of talk about smart gun technology, but little action because of industry resistance. But an MIT freshman named Kai Kloepfer has presented what he...

15 min

Eat the river

Frédérick Gautier is a French ceramicist trained in landscape architecture who once had a studio on a boat on the Seine River in Paris.

4 min

Credits

Host:
Frances Anderton

Producers:
Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy

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