The Future? Metal detectors in your shoes/boots!

[UncleMatt]

Lemur Studio Design develops mine detector in a shoe

Check out these shoes that are being developed for the military that can detect land mines! How long until a civilian version is offered to the public for metal detecting?

 

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[woof!]

They claim it'll detect an anti-personnel mine with metal parts at a distance of 2 meters. They're lying, presumably to attract gullible investors. I'm quite safe in saying it won't detect a car at 2 meters. Heck, it probably won't detect an Abrams tank at 2 meters.

If it works at all, it may detect a coin at a distance of several inches. Many modern antipersonnel mines have very little metal in them, in order to avoid being detected by mine detectors (which are military versions of real metal detectors).

In other words, this device does not detect by beep, it detects by boom. Any volunteers for field testing?

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Historical note: Back in the 1980's as an engineering experiment I built a little pulse induction unit (circuitry fairly similar to the later Fisher Impulse) that had a searchcoil that went into the sole of the shoe, the electronics went in your pocket, and the beep was via a little crystal earphone. It'd detect coins to about 4 inches.

--Dave J.

 

[cudamark]

There are shoe detectors out there right now. The problem with them is pinpointing and you still have to recover the target somehow. If you're trying to be stealthy, it just doesn't quite do it. Now if they can make the target jump out of the ground, they may have something!

 

[Msbeepbeep]

There are shoe detectors out there right now. The problem with them is pinpointing and you still have to recover the target somehow. If you're trying to be stealthy, it just doesn't quite do it. Now if they can make the target jump out of the ground, they may have something!

I'm with ya on that one!

 

[woof!]

Land mines jump out of the ground.

 

[Carl-NC]

Check out these shoes that are being developed for the military that can detect land mines!

Yeah, these will definitely detect land mines, but so will an ordinary pair of shoes, in exactly the same way.

 

[deadeye 22250]

Yeah, these will definitely detect land mines, but so will an ordinary pair of shoes, in exactly the same way.

I agree, so is there anyone stupid enough to want to test them on land mines, if they do they might go off with a bang.

 

[UncleMatt]

You guys are a riot! lol

 

[DigIron2]

I bet some people would be walking around their local battlefields looking for artillery shots and shells.I saw something in a magazine that was a walking stick or cane that detected somehow.

 

[cudamark]

Detecting is one thing.....recovery is another. How are you going to stealthily dig up a deep target? Even digging a shallow target is hard to do without notice by somebody.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

When caught guilty party deserves what ever penalties that get and hope it is steep...........

All they do is bring un-needed bad publicity on our hobby..






American by birth, Patriot by choice.

I would rather die standing on my two feet defending our Constitution than live a lifetime on my knees......

 

[DigIron2]

someone would have to be crazy to try something like digging on federal land.I think the fine is like $250,000 fine,and federal imprisonment.There isn't nothing out there worth all that!But I bet some people would try it,exspeacialy with them shoes

 

[mineralized_miner]

At least it's not a landmine LRL...