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more about #footwear wolfsingleton: Is a two pound metal detector so damn hard to carry that someone actually created this? What's next, a few yards of toilet paper wrapped around your ... more » nutbastard: they didn't work because dignity is not metallic. incidentally, it's not metallica, either. more » DennyCrane: Woah woah woah woah woah. Back up. You have a titanium rod in your leg? Are you a cyborg? The Six Million Dollar Man? more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: BTW Brian, Did you happen to see any other people combing the beach, or did they also not find shit? more » Segador: I join SteveDave in wanting to hear the Titanium Leg Rod Incident. What happened? more » PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: Also, you can't really cover much area with these things. With a normal detector, you swing it in an arc back and forth and cover a lot of area. I don... more » bill cant fart: "Your version of Internet Explorer is not supported. Please upgrade to the most recent version in order to view comments." WHAT?!?! This is Gizmodo! I... more » Gizmodoholic: what's with the blurry part in the photo? more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: To hell with the treasure finding flip-flops, I want to hear more about how you became semi-bionic/cyborg Brian! more » infmom: My father died from complications of Alzheimers. He was in a nursing home the last couple years of his life. All the doors to the outside had locks,... more » LuckyLakey: Lets just skip the nonsense and barcode them and implant a chip. more » madara: Great idea, except most Alzheimer's patients end up in a nursing home and would most likely not always be wearing their shoes. Why not incorporate it... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: Also, if you ever encounter an Alzheimer's patient who doesn't remember anything, have them dial a phone. Just have them dial it. Most times they wi... more » 92BuickLeSabre: We got something like this for my grandpa. Turned out he had been wandering off to a little place called "Angel Delight!" more » Curves: This could help me find my shoes. I dont have alzheimers, I just misplace my shoes sometimes. Its like they walk away on their own. more » -
#review
Metal Detecting Sandal Lightning Review: No
These sandals use a copper coil in the right foot, connected by USB port to a base unit strapped to your leg, to find metal objects in the sand up to 2 feet away. In theory. More » -
#gps
GPS Shoes Help Locate Wandering Alzheimer's Patients
Did you know that Alzheimer's patients frequently suffer what are officially called "critical wandering incidents"? These shoes have an embedded GPS chip that sends an alert via Google Maps so the lost senior can be located. More » -
