Detectors for the deaf/hard-of-hearing?

[portraitartist]

Do any of you know if any of the metal detector companies are developing or have developed anything for the deaf? It seems to me that it wouldn'tbe much of a stretch to convert an audio signal to a visial one, or to a vibration or something...

Was just chatting with a MD'ing friend who is going deaf, and thought I'd see what you guys knew...

[janiece]

I just saw something on this withing the last week. There is a device that gives off a vibration and it's mounted on MDs as a conversion. I believe I saw it in an article about an organized hunt in American Digger.

I'm at work so I can't look now to see if there was any name or anything. But they're out there and I think probably your larger sellers could be of assistance.

[EBCIII]

How about this?


Vibra-Phone 280 Replaces Headphones with Vibration

It might work, Beale.

[mlamp20412]

There is an add in Lost Treasure magazine for Silent Search that plugs into the headphone jack and illuminates when there would be an audio signal. Pretty much just a headphone plug with a red light bulb. Did a web search and there are a couple of places online that sell it, but I could not find a company website. The add says it is not currently available for Bounty Hunter or First Texas MDs.

HH-

[janiece]

Okay, I finally got a chance to look at the article I had seen. It's in the May-June issue of American Digger, page 22. It's a sidebar on some hearing impaired diggers who use the Vibra Phone 280 which is what Beale linked to above.

HTH!

[The TINMAN]

Same thing I saw and sounds interesting.

[homefire]

Just make a vibrator plugged into the earphone. You could use any detector they make.

Say the Piezo with a step up transformer element from a cell phone?

[anne]

I sold my XTerra 50 to a lady who is profoundly deaf and cannot wear earphones, she loves the machine and is finding good stuff...the ID is so large she digs by numbers.