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Monday, June 19, 2006

High-pitched - ®Mosquito - originally created to disperse youngsters

NEW YORK - Students are using a new ring tone to receive messages in class - and many teachers can't even hear the ring.

Some students are downloading a ring tone off the Internet that is too high-pitched to be heard by most adults.

With it, high schoolers can receive text message alerts on their cell phones without the teacher knowing.

As people age, many develop what's known as aging ear - a loss of the ability to hear higher-frequency sounds.

The ring tone is a spin-off of technology that was originally meant to repel teenagers - not help them. A Welsh security company developed the tone to help shopkeepers disperse young people loitering in front of their stores while leaving adults unaffected. The company called their product the "Mosquito."

Donna Lewis, a teacher in Manhattan, says her colleague played the ring for a classroom of first-graders - and all of them could hear it, while the adults couldn't hear anything.



Source: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13274669/?GT1=8211

 Click to hear (can you hear it?): http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/audio/mosquito_sound.mp3


Interesting article. I can hear it only after turning my speakers up and it's a very irritating high pitch noise. Had some buzzing in my ear for awhile after the audio.

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My lil sister has been a great help in helping move to my new place. So the other day we bought some Hello Kitty cakes from Polar Puffs and Cakes to reward ourselves. Mine's the one with the candy bar while her's is 'The Cook'. It tastes pretty normal but we did have fun figuring out if the hello kitty image was edible. Our conclusion is that it's probably printed on sugar paper but the taste sux! So just eat the cake and throw out miss kitty. If you can't bear it then snap pics!

BTW... we had to buy 2 cakes cuz my lil sis wanted the box... she's always keeping funny stuffs. Here's a picture of her box.
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