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I think it's one way of admitting the envelope has been pushed about as far as current state-of-the-art can take it, so all that's really left is bundling features to make it do more than merely "detect."
There's nothing inherently wrong with that approach. Just about every gadget you buy these days has to do something more than it's primary function. If it doesn't, the competition's will, so we're just in a feature-rich spiral of one-upsmanship that crosses many forms of modern technology.
I mean, digital cameras added GPS functions several years ago, so why not detectors?
Maybe next will be a GPS or camera that also metal-detects? LOL
Hey! How about a detector that takes a picture of your find and posts it to google earth?
I have a real use for an auto-piloted detector with auto-target-recovery that I can run from my couch using bluetooth. I call it Mine-droid.
Features sell machines. After digging too many tiny wires pieces with a Gold Bug, I decided I wanted something more. I bought a couple Time Rangers in 2001 just for all the bells & whistles it offered. A decade later, my wife and I still own and love 'em, but she hunts in only all-metal and I use mostly just the basic settings. Those extra features like surface-blanking and custom accept/reject didn't prove all that useful in practice but cost a fair chunk more money to have. I'll still take my TR over my GB1 any day, though.
Edit: I wrote the above before the new replies describing the patent. Till we know if those features are incorporated in this model or not, it's all still conjecture. Still, like my old Time Ranger a decade ago, it may be not so much "new" tech as a new combination of existing tech.
-Ed
There's nothing inherently wrong with that approach. Just about every gadget you buy these days has to do something more than it's primary function. If it doesn't, the competition's will, so we're just in a feature-rich spiral of one-upsmanship that crosses many forms of modern technology.
I mean, digital cameras added GPS functions several years ago, so why not detectors?
Maybe next will be a GPS or camera that also metal-detects? LOL
Hey! How about a detector that takes a picture of your find and posts it to google earth?
I have a real use for an auto-piloted detector with auto-target-recovery that I can run from my couch using bluetooth. I call it Mine-droid.
Features sell machines. After digging too many tiny wires pieces with a Gold Bug, I decided I wanted something more. I bought a couple Time Rangers in 2001 just for all the bells & whistles it offered. A decade later, my wife and I still own and love 'em, but she hunts in only all-metal and I use mostly just the basic settings. Those extra features like surface-blanking and custom accept/reject didn't prove all that useful in practice but cost a fair chunk more money to have. I'll still take my TR over my GB1 any day, though.
Edit: I wrote the above before the new replies describing the patent. Till we know if those features are incorporated in this model or not, it's all still conjecture. Still, like my old Time Ranger a decade ago, it may be not so much "new" tech as a new combination of existing tech.
-Ed
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