Ring tone only audible to kids (1 Viewer)

[RightinNYC]

This is very interesting...

In that old battle of the wills between young people and their keepers, the young have found a new weapon that could change the balance of power on the cellphone front: a ring tone that many adults cannot hear.
In settings where cellphone use is forbidden — in class, for example — it is perfect for signaling the arrival of a text message without being detected by an elder of the species.

"When I heard about it I didn't believe it at first," said Donna Lewis, a technology teacher at the Trinity School in Manhattan. "But one of the kids gave me a copy, and I sent it to a colleague. She played it for her first graders. All of them could hear it, and neither she nor I could."

The technology, which relies on the fact that most adults gradually lose the ability to hear high-pitched sounds, was developed in Britain but has only recently spread to America — by Internet, of course.

How crazy is that? I love it. Seems kinda useless in that context, but some of the other uses its been put to seem pretty good...

The cellphone ring tone that she heard was the offshoot of an invention called the Mosquito, developed last year by a Welsh security company to annoy teenagers and gratify adults, not the other way around.

It was marketed as an ultrasonic teenager repellent, an ear-splitting 17-kilohertz buzzer designed to help shopkeepers disperse young people loitering in front of their stores while leaving adults unaffected.

 

[Blue Collar Joe]

I played it and it is clearly audible. I am definitely not young, either.

 

[jfuh]

Damn that tone was annoying, should've turned the volume down a notch or two.

 

[Blue Collar Joe]

It damn well was. I'd beat any of my kids that played that damned tune. It's not a tune. Its a whine.

 

[jamesrage]

I can hear that sound.I guess even after all the loud machine guns and heavy metal concerts my hearing is still good.

 

[jamesrage]

I played it and it is clearly audible. I am definitely not young, either.

Maybe yo have to be really old to not hear that sound.

 

[Blue Collar Joe]

Maybe yo have to be really old to not hear that sound.

Or deaf. That is a very annoying sound. It is not as high as the article made it sound, and my hearing is far from great. Guns and other things have done their damage to my hearing as well.