Scanning parks and beaches with one of these can be a unique and fascinating hobby.

Armed with metal detectors, curious explorers are finding historical objects every day. For example, Bob Podhrasky, COO, senior vice president, and director of engineering at metal detector ...

It’s very simple to implement a valid metal detector with good performances. Very often people lose their metal objects at the beach or in the countryside. Coins, rings and necklaces disappear when ...

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Why would you want to detect metal? Oh, I don't know … maybe you want to find some gold in the ground. You could dig up ALL the dirt, or you could find the location that has the gold before you dig.

For most of us, the fantasy of finding buried treasure faded away along with other childhood passions, like my youthful ambition to set a Guinness World Record for building the world’s largest pillow ...