The latest fad in the cell phone industry is the mosquito ring tone. It came about after a crafty British man invented a device called The Mosquito. It is a device that emits a very high frequency tone meant to annoy teenagers (adults are unable to hear the tone). Businesses would blast the frequency outside their store to keep loitering teens away from their storefronts. Some crafty students decided to convert the same technology into a ring tone that only they (teenagers) could hear! By utilizing this free ring tone, they could now receive phone calls and text messages while in class or school without teachers knowing it.
Click here to test out your hearing. Even thought I am 25 I can only hear 39 and younger (15khz) frequency.
WARNING: I now have a headache from listening to them too much; especially the super high frequency ones.
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Cassidy // December 8, 2008 at 2:19 am
WOW! Is that thing real? I can hear all of the under 24 ringtones, except the last one. haha.
Josh, can’t hear any of the under 24 ringtones…so of course, he thinks it’s rigged!
kristajean // December 8, 2008 at 5:57 pm
hhhhahahah wow Cassidy looks like you married an old man without knowing it!
Erica, I am going to have to check this out later. That is interesting… I can’t really believe it is real… Is it because as you get older your ear drums are more damaged and can’t hear all the frequencies you could when you were younger? But those rowdy teens always listen to music too loud, especially on headphones, seems like they would have the most damaged eardrums of anyone…
Now that I have spent too much time REALLY thinking about this.. I am going to check it out. Ill let you know my “ear age” lol