Products We’d Love

DumpStar

No more guessing where the best beach glass locations are found. Download this app to find the closest beach used as a dumping ground in the past. Select from a drop-down list of historical landfills, trash disposal sites, and municipal dump locations. For all smartphones.

Beach Seeker 25

This detector finds sea glass! Glass is often colored with iron oxide in the form of ferrous iron or iron salts. Over time the iron becomes more concentrated, especially in thick pieces and multicolored glass. The new improved BS25 detects this ferrous metal, even in small amounts. You won’t be able to resist going the beach to try it out.

SeAlert

Protect yourself or your loved ones at home and on the go from dangerously low levels of vitamin sea. Adjustable bracelet comes in a variety of colors.

Croc-odile Teeth

These practical beachcombing shoes are just what you need to save your aching back. Stop bending over and instead scrape through the sand to find the best shells, beach glass, rocks, and fossils. Available in a range of fun colors.

IdentiDrops

Easily identify your beach finds. Drop your find in a tube with water and IdentiDrops. In 5 minutes, check the chart to find out if you have real beach glass, or what type of shell, rock, fossil, or metal you found.

Where to Buy

Looking to pick up one of these incredible products? Alas, no matter how much we would all love to have these, they are not real…yet! Maybe a few people in the beachcombing community can put their minds to actually inventing these. We’ll be first in line to buy them when they do!

What would you add to this list of dream beachcombing gear? Let us know in the comments.

Happy April Fool's Day!

This article appeared in Beachcombing Magazine Volume 47 April/May 2025.