A team from Ukraine is introducing a Bluetooth metal detector you can use with your iPhone. It’s not a finished product, but a working prototype. However, the team believes they can turn it into a viable niche for treasure hunters and enthusiasts.
Air Metal Detector
Called the Air Metal Detector, it’s a Bluetooth device that uses your iPhone instead of a traditional control block. The team says the control block is the most expensive part of a metal detector. By eliminating it and making it work with your iPhone instead, they hope to make the detector more affordable.
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The Ukraine team has plenty of real world experience too, and organized a club of 2200+ detecting enthusiasts. It’s not clear when or if they will make a successful product, but it certainly stands out at CES amid a sea of robots and smart home devices.
I really want to see this in action. It’s one thing to use this for locating coins on a schoolyard or around a house but another when you’ve hiked five miles into the woods hunting relics. Detectorist, don’t you know : ) Weak or bad batteries can ruin a trip.
I’m sorry but when I first saw the picture I kept wondering “Why do they have a peace sign on a stick?”