On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 4:47:18 PM UTC, polygonum wrote:
On 14/11/2012 14:38, Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:56:23 -0800 (PST), whisky-dave wrote:



I was somewhat surprised to find a metal detector app...



Does it work, well it's andriod ;-)



The one I downloaded does, at least for magnetic materials.



As I thought you needed an externalm coil.



Depends if your droid has the magnetic sensor or not.



Yes - it works on a Galaxy S2.



Can't help thinking that with appropriate Bluetooth devices these phones

could be harnessed to do all sorts of things. And certainly that seems

to be happening in the medical world with some blood testing devices at

least in development.



--

Rod

If you have a suitable phone set it up as a hot spot and log on via that