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Just what it sounds like -- shoes that work as metal detectors -- instead of walking around the beach and waving a stick, people could just slip these bad boys on and go for a walk or jog. It might incentivize people to excercise if there's a reward...and the shoes might be a bit heavier than normal
so it would be particularly good excercise...
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Isn't walking around with a big heavy stick exercise? The advantage with the shoes would be that you can search for change descretely..until the alarm goes off. |
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It's excercise but you're right -- it's far from discreet. The shoe alarm can be discrete too -- it's all about headphones... |
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Or maybe the shoe vibrates. This could also help pinpoint
coins faster... if you pass over a coin that's a bit to your
right, the right shoe would vibrate more than the left,
etc. |
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Stereo headphones would be good enough for telling which shoe had detected the metal (and discreet). If the noise generated gets louder the nearer the shoe is to the metal, then your head should naturally turn towards the "source" of the sound, making you automatically walk in the right direction |
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It easy to make it a dicrete sign, I mean... most of the excercising people walk on a ritem, this could be easely interupted by a detection. Maby its possible to make some universal thingy that fits on more than 1 shoe, otherwise people could recognize your shoes ;) |
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I love this because you don't look like such a twat with a
great big ufo type techno truck swinging about the place.
Although a draw back is that you need to keep the
detector fairly level while passing over a potention
treasure.
Leggless |
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Feets would be fairly close to level, pressed against the ground...You don't push the ring of a detector against the grass, so you have to hold it level... |
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When I saw this I was thinking of the Irish Minesweeper concept... A guy with his hands over his ears tentatively stamping one foot about in front of him in search of anti-personnel mines. |
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This is how he got to be "leggless" , (see Irish Minesweeper above). |
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