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[eeyore_grrl]

Have you heard about Mosquito Ringtones (apparently this is not in fact new, just new to me)? as we age we naturally lose the ability to hear certain pitches. kids are using these as ringtones so teachers (or parents) can't hear the ring.

http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/ ian can hear some i can't. pillar seems to be able to hear more than either of us and wasn't particularly thrilled.

it's kinda creepy.

Comments

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard of high pitched ring tones before, but I have heard of shopkeepers setting up high pitched tones to keep kids from loitering outside their stores.

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

now kids are using them on their cell phones so teachers and parents can't hear them it seems.

ian and i were just talking about using them to annoying kids into leaving.

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

Makes sense. If I were a kid, I'd probably do the same.

I've used an audio editing program to generate pure tones (sine waves) to crudely test my hearing and I can't hear anything above about 13 KHz.

I know my computer speakers work above that range 'cause it drives Ozzi and Ziggy out of the room. :)

[firinel.livejournal.com]

Riordon could only hear down to 19khz. I could clearly hear 17.4khz, and could hear 18 well enough that though I might not notice it for the brief time it would sound for a ringtone would certainly be generally annoyed, even if I wasn't sure why, by a shop keeper using it constantly. I kept clicking it to see where Rio and I differed, and I got a headache, felt a bit off, and got kinda irritated/wanted to get away from it feeling. :/ I think it's plausible even some of the higher ones I can't hear in the slightest would produce the same affect.

Rothko didn't seem to care, he was in the room the entire time we were playing with it.

[karenthecroccy.livejournal.com]

I could hear up til 30 and under. Miles heard them all. It gave him antennae head.

[banacheq.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but think of the smug satisfaction you'll feel when waves of "kids" start to lose the ability to hear their own ringtones and are suddenly deemed "old". And then we'll get to sit them down and make them watch Logan's Run. :D