Can you hear the mosquitos?
August 19th, 2006 by some dudeNew York Times article: A Ring Tone Meant to Fall on Deaf Ears. Summed up—an English company made a high pitched buzzer called the Mosquito to disperse loitering teens in malls. It’s high enough pitch that most adults can’t hear it. The kids figured out that they could turn it into a ringtone that adults can’t hear.
Damn, I wonder if I can hear it. This blog post has the tone in addition to some sine wave tones he generated. I couldn’t hear the last couple until I plugged in decent headphones that could produce the sound. Even then the 18kHz is hard to hear for me, but at least I can hear it.
Can you hear all of them? If not, a) You’re going deaf (it’s ok, it’s natural); b) You need new headphones; or c) All of the above.
Direct links to the tones:
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:54 pm
I can hear em all… and the Mosquito is maybe the most annoying thing I’ve ever heard!!!
The 18k one was the hardest for me to hear.