Wednesday, May 24

ringtonia.com: Teenager repellent "Mosquito" turned into ringtone

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Teenager repellent "Mosquito" turned into ringtone

Remember the teenager repellent called Mosquito I wrote about a few days ago, the ultrasonic device that emits a sound only audible to teenagers? Shopkeepers in England have been installing them in order to prevent anti social youths from hanging out in front of their stores.

Well now techno-savvy pupils have recorded the ultra-high sound - audible only to under-20s- onto their cell phones, and are now receiving calls and text messages in class - without teachers having the faintest idea of what is going on.

The kids call it Teen Buzz, and it's spreading it from phone to phone via text messages and Bluetooth.

I find this pretty damn funny. I also have to call BULLSHIT! on this. I doubt that a cell phone would actually be able to playback such a high frequency sound. I doubt that the range is higher even to my poor middle-aged ears can here. I'm going to look for this ringtone however. :)

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