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- vogelzang, on 10/12/2007, -22/+350There's also this thing called a search box that some people cannot see.
- Frebis, on 10/12/2007, -11/+153Did you have your grandma try out ubuntu while you were at it?
- ElectricGrandpa, on 10/12/2007, -6/+135Why not just put the phone on vibrate... wouldn't that be... easier?
- DaMacGamer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+98im 13 and i can hear it, then i got my mom who is 36 and she could hear it just fine too. then i got my 61 year old grandma with slight hearing issues and she could hear it too.
- Styjan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+48I'm 33 and I could hear it. It is awful! Makes the hair on my neck stand up.
- archiecstll, on 10/12/2007, -10/+50there's an mp3 in the comments for the original
http://www.digg.com/technology/Teenager_repellent_Mosquito_turned_into_ringtone#c1793774
plus instructions for how to make your own
http://www.digg.com/technology/Teenager_repellent_Mosquito_turned_into_ringtone#c1793366
sorry, bury the previous post - archiecstll, on 10/12/2007, -13/+44Original: http://www.digg.com/technology/Teenager_repellent_Mosquito_turned_into_ringtone
Ok, different article, but same thing - KilgoreCarp, on 10/12/2007, -10/+39The topic is a dupe, but the NY Times article is a better read and more informative than the original blog post about this. Lighten up peeps - how many damn different articles about the same PS3 and Wii news make it to the home page every day?
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32Go to Audacity. generate. tone. 20000 Hertz
It is not lossy yet. so stand 10 feet from speakers and try to hear it - EGOvoruhk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29I still don't see the point of actually needing this. Kids would only use this in class. What would the messages say?
"Hey dude, where are you?"
"I'm in school"
"Me too"
"See you at lunch?"
"Awesome!"
Great conversation that couldn't wait - Flinty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Also, MP3 is no good for a format. MP3 works by cutting out the frequencies that we cannot hear.. WAV would have been better.
- shucklak, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2918 only legally makes you an adult, by any other means you're still a child.
Sorry - gooru, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Or, the messages could read like this:
A
C
D
B
A
Use your imagination. - xamox, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20I remember seeing the original a long time ago. I can hear it, and I am 25. So am I included as a teen? What it reminds me of is the high pitch noises a TV makes. I think my hearing is better than most of friends anyways. Cause I'll ask that question, "Is the TV on in the other room", and they will say no, but then I'll go in there and the TV will be on but not the cable box. Just a black screen. It's not just my TV either, I do it all the time with computer monitors as well.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19not a whole lot of cellphones let you use .flac for ringtones...
- echoic, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21The 'balance of power'? This isn't exactly the legislative vs the executive vs the judicial here man.
- InternetUser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12A ring tone that adults cannot hear? That's more considerate than rebelious, if you ask me :)
- Ludwig, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I can't hear it!
Wait. No, I have no speakers at work.
Or...do I? - cantankerous, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11"Why not just put the phone on vibrate... wouldn't that be... easier?"
We're talking about kids here. Imagine being a kid again for a minute. You hear about this ring tone that adults supposedly can't hear. Of course you're going to use it. - neks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"the effectiveness of the sound is determined by what speakers u play it on, ***** speakes and no one will hear anything"
well, i'm definitely an adult and can hear it loud and clear, and as much as i'd like to believe the speakers in my iBook G4 are very good, they're miniscule ... then again you don't need large cones for high frequencies, and maybe on proper speakers the sound would me much more terrible, but what's the point? it's meant to be played back by mobiles.
i very much doubt that the average teacher has more trouble hearing that sound than folks from the iPod generation. you can train your ears and brain to perceive sounds that are much, much less conspicuous to others. only you wouldn't want to boast about such a ringtone on the net, you'd want to be the only one using it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Damn this noise, I can't hear it...maybe I'm going deff. Maybe I'll hook this beast up to a spectrum analyzer and see if it actually plays
- bitt3n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9wtf I am 32 and that sounds like a phalanx of rabid mosquitoes.
- dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -15/+22"My submission has an actual MP3 file."
find an MP3 of someone who gives a crap ;) - Quactaur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/hearing.html For more frequencies; 45hz makes my desk shake!
- stmiller, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9For those trying to hear high frequencies made with Audacity:
Keep in mind that even the most advanced expensive studio monitors can only get to about 20khz, your $20 computer speakers at home probably can't produce those super high frequencies. So if you can't hear 20khz, it may not be even sounding on your speakers in the first place. - smartssa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I can hear it, and am quite annoyed by it. Other than making my ears bleed and wathing to shove whoever's cell phone it is that's ringing right up their ass, I see no real use for this. :P
- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Well I've played it on my laptop speakers for my 14 year old brother, he hears it and it annoys the hell out of him I can't hear it, I'm 24. I then played it on my desktop speakers, same thing I still can't hear it. I put it on my iPod and played it on my Bose surround system, same results. So now I'm playing it on repeat through the Bose so I can annoy the ***** out of him and not hear a thing. He's now left the livingroom so it seems to be a good way to clear unwanted kids out of any room you want to use.
I'm going to remember this when I'm a parent. - altcountryman, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14This is the only funny dupe comment I've ever read. Dugg.
- stmiller, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8You can die in a war, but cannot buy beer.
- shrike2000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Unfortunately, cell phones cannot reproduce the frequency that this 'repellent' uses, so it's no wonder that adults can hear it as well. You're hearing only what the phone is capable of, and that is well within our hearing range.
- syberghost, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I turn 40 next month, I'm almost totally deaf to high-pitched sounds in one ear and have slight reduction in the other, and I hear this thing just fine.
- GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The MP3 file on the site isn't as good as the link someone posted to the actual .wav files from the "Mosquito" device. My brother, 18, could hear it. My cousin, 15, could hear it. My mom, 48, could not. My aunt, 45, could not. This was on a Cingular 8125/HTC Wizard and I used the 5 second Mosquito .wav file sample..
- Unicron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6OMG DUDE LIEK CALL TEH POLICE OR SUMMET WOT A RIPOFF LOL
- syberghost, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10I downloaded this to my Cingular 8125/HTC Wizard and played it. All the middle-aged guys around me at the office can hear it, even 15 feet away, even through crappy little phone speakers. I'm gonna have to call ***** on this one.
- MinnesotaTwins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6First I played it and didn't hear anything. I got depressed that I'm old. Then I looked at winamp and noticed I had the volume muted. I jacked up the volume and it blew my ears off. That made my day. I am a 29 year old who is dreading every day closer to being 30.
- peorth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It's not true. My mom is over 60 and she can hear it perfectly.
- Fafhrd68, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm 37 and I teach school. The kids all asked me to turn it off that it hurt their ears. I heard a faint, faint whistling.
I put headphones on and.... damn that hurts my ears. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I am 41 and could hear it .. cool
- eqisow, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10And your OS. ;)
(I know I know, go ahead and bury it) - XxUNDEROATHxX, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13I always find it funny how big newspapers like the NY Times pick up on Digg stories a week later....
Also, I dont have a NYTimes subscription, so I cannot see the story....Not that I need to because this was on digg a week ago....
oh, heres the link as well...
http://digg.com/technology/Teenager_repellent_Mosquito_turned_into_ringtone - Punisher2K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+432, heard it fine. Friggen annoying.
- syberghost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The problem with letting kids just go ahead and grow up to be stupid is that by the time they figure it out, they're screwing up your order or running a red light into your kids.
- gmerin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4damn that hurts! it's like walking into the fur sales areas in the NY stores - If I smash the ringing phone that uses that tone, no one on the jury will ever convict me.
- OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4tiny piezo speakers can go way beyond 20kHz easily. Now the question is how well can mp3 format represent high frequency data and how well can the D/AC on a phone do it. I doubt phones have 16-bit 48000samples/second digital audio on them. But even a low end phone should be able to squeak out some high sounds, even if it can only do the more typical 22.1ksamples/second. (They say you need at least double the samples/second to do a particular frequency well. but you can do a frequency poorly with less samples)
- jeshjohn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5That sound is really annoying.
- 954GeNeRaL, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9What's wrong with using vibrate. I thought I was an adult, but since I can hear this...
- digghotdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I yell my dog to listen the mp3, and around 5 secs or so, he starts to bite my cellphone XD
- doggo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10Um, yeah, this was called as a hoax about a month ago.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/05/24/kids_turn_teen_repel.html - djhash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@people who hear TVs.. Just FYI.. you are hearing the capacitors in the TV charging up and discharging. Even if the TV is blank the capacitors are continuously charging and discharging at a very high rate due to the AC current. Ever used an old camera with a flash and switched it on it made the increasingly high pitch noise while the "flash" is getting ready. And it comes back after you snap a picture with a flash... aah.. good old days.. now digital cameras dont do that.. I wish they'd put a sound effect, like those clicky sounds.
- Ai3d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Man how many 40 year old geeks are out here? I feel so insecure.
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