High-Pitched Ring Tone Adults Can't Hear

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Psyc

12-06-2006 11:41:30

http//www.news4jax.com/technology/9353826/detail.html
[quote51bc722104]Students Use High-Pitched Ring Tone Many Adults Can't Hear

POSTED 343 am EDT June 12, 2006

NEW YORK -- Some students are using a new ring tone to get messages in class, and many teachers can't even hear the ring.

The ring tone is too high-pitched to be heard by most adults. With it, high school students can get text message alerts without the teacher knowing.

The phenomenon is known as aging ear -- a loss of the ability to hear higher-frequency sounds. It happens to many people as they get older.

One New York teacher said a colleague played the ring for a classroom of first-graders. All of the kids could hear it, while the adults couldn't hear anything.

The ring tone is a spin-off of technology that was originally meant to repel teens. A security company developed the tone to help stores annoy youths loitering in front of their stores while leaving adults unaffected.[/quote51bc722104]



Ok, who has it? D

sweeedfish

12-06-2006 11:46:52

Here's a link to the file, http//download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3

dmorris68

12-06-2006 11:52:05

[quote096ca7474b="sweeedfish"]Here's a link to the file, http//download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3[/quote096ca7474b]
Well, I can hear it, so that wouldn't work with me. And I'm old enough to be a parent to a lot of you guys. P

ffactoryxx

12-06-2006 12:09:15

OMG you can get messages in class without the teacher hearing!!!!!!

I thought thats what ths Silent and Vibrate functions were for

roll

Psyc

12-06-2006 12:09:52

I tried it on my mom, she couldn't hear it or she didn't get what I was talking about but when she came closer, she heard it.

Wolfeman

12-06-2006 12:20:51

I heard it and its annoying. Use vibrate...

Veek

12-06-2006 12:24:12

That's awesome. My mom isn't very old, she's about 42, and she can't hear it. My brother could hear it next door and thought it was the TV.



This is the same exact sound I'd hear when I'd walk into a room with all the computers "off", but I'd tell the teacher one was on because I could hear it on and she would be like "WTF?"

ilanbg

12-06-2006 12:29:05

That's still pretty cool.

iamzim

12-06-2006 12:45:18

Just played it at work, and 1 of the 5 people directly around me turned around and was like, WTF was that! the others didnt hear or didn't care!

tjwor

12-06-2006 12:54:10

yea, it sounds like a TV or some electronic noise... would work well in a classroom... unless everyone has it, then it would annoy the hell outa me...

my ears hurt now (

JKirk

12-06-2006 12:54:46

Yeah, I can imagine how this sound could be easily mistakened! I'm going to try it soon.

JJPRO11

12-06-2006 13:26:51

its like those dog training whistles.. weird.

FreeOffersNow

12-06-2006 13:59:06

I can hear it. Yayyyyyyyy!!!! I'm not old!

Vector

12-06-2006 15:10:33

that is pretty lame, i can here it

i think that if you are listening to it then you can hear it.. what i mean is if you are waiting to heear it.

or if you have heart it before. cuz sometimes i thought it stopped, and i thought it was running when it stopped, lol

UberVash

12-06-2006 15:22:44

19 year old bro could hear it, mom had ear right on the speaker and was like wtf.

Iloveipods2

12-06-2006 15:24:34

that sound is annoying. why can't we all just use vibrate and silent.

Vector

12-06-2006 15:30:15

yea it kind of hurts lol

jy3

12-06-2006 15:36:33

what did u say? ;)

bballp6699

12-06-2006 15:38:28

My dad couldn't hear it at first. I told him he was old and that's why he couldn't hear it. Then he told me to play it again and insisted that he heard it.

johnjimjones

12-06-2006 17:00:12

I heard it loud and clear. I mean...hurts.

Berky34

12-06-2006 17:01:25

yeah lol my mom cant hear it. man it hurts my ears though.

J4320

12-06-2006 17:12:08

My mom couldn't hear it and she thought it was the weirdest thing. We kind of did the placebo effect on my little brother with it and he heard it too. My mom then turned it up and put her head next to the speaker and it gave my brother a headache and it made my ears hurt. She still couldn't hear it.

ilanbg

12-06-2006 17:16:21

Where's the recording? I don't see it.

theysayjump

12-06-2006 17:25:58

[quote59226daff8="sweeedfish"]Here's a link to the file, http//download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3[/quote59226daff8]

kdollar

12-06-2006 17:31:18

i could hear it, wasnt very loud though.....and dont think i could notice it in a room where there was actually noise, b/c its silent in my room right now.

benner410

12-06-2006 17:34:00

how do i put it on my phone?>

J4320

12-06-2006 17:41:51

[quote0db492edce="benner410"]how do i put it on my phone?>[/quote0db492edce]

It depends no what kind of phone you have.

ilanbg

12-06-2006 17:49:20

[quote89323f9dc4="theysayjump"][quote89323f9dc4="sweeedfish"]Here's a link to the file, http//download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3[/quote89323f9dc4][/quote89323f9dc4]

Thanks man.

I imagine that sound could be pretty useful at some point. I don't know what for, but eh. shrug


That sound would definitely keep me from loitering though.

geej86

12-06-2006 19:26:45

pretty cool. both my parents couldn't hear it but it was loud as hell for me. it's not letting me save it though, savable link anyone?

ilanbg

12-06-2006 19:49:36

[quote440a92dcc6="geej86"]pretty cool. both my parents couldn't hear it but it was loud as hell for me. it's not letting me save it though, savable link anyone?[/quote440a92dcc6]

If you're on a Mac, highlight the URL in the browser (Safari, at least) and hit option + enter. It will automatically be downloaded.

PsychoAU

12-06-2006 20:02:24

In Firefox, just do a File > Save Page As... and you can save it.

Wolfeman

12-06-2006 22:02:48

My parents can't hear it at all. Thats so weird!

J4320

12-06-2006 22:22:48

[quotecec5f54cb2="Wolfeman"]My parents can't hear it at all. Thats so weird![/quotecec5f54cb2]

Doth thou live with thine own parents at 24?

Wolfeman

12-06-2006 23:16:46

I hath used thine email contraption.

Gooogler

12-06-2006 23:46:50

Does anyone actually have this as their ringtone? I guess it is kinda cool, and it would be annoying as hell to everyone in your class, but vibrate works pretty well for me.

tylerc

12-06-2006 23:50:49

Dude, trim your sig down, it's fucking huge.

Gooogler

12-06-2006 23:52:43

Are you kidding? You think I am keeping this sig? Chill out.

EDIT All trimmed up D

dmfay89

12-06-2006 23:56:31

My god that is annoying!!!! Not to mention my dog was jumping off the freakin walls when i played that crap.. i thought i would actually be a musical ringtone... but i guess thats exactly what the deffinition of a ring "tone" is... a [i755d22eff9]constant[/i755d22eff9] rigning tone... phh

tjwor

13-06-2006 01:39:03

My ears hurt whenever I think about it... my dog didn't seem to mind... she was sleeping, and looked up, and then went back to sleep shrug i guess she's halfway deaf anyways... my mom couldn't hear it, and i'm sure my dad won't be able to...

Taerth

13-06-2006 10:06:02

[quote056bd9d2a0="FreeOffersNow"]I can hear it. Yayyyyyyyy!!!! I'm not old![/quote056bd9d2a0]

How I feel.

J4320

13-06-2006 12:28:10

Back in my Christian private school Bible class killed me. Everyone was suppose to be SILENT when reading the Bible and my phone vibrated twice and I had to bring doughnuts to class once. The teacher was old so this would have worked really well.

I hated that... My cell vibrated and the kid next to me yelled doughnets and I muttered shut the hell up but more kids said doughnuts and I had to bring them.

>_<

The last time it vibrated I didn't get caught. P

compuguru

13-06-2006 13:47:18

I just put mine on silent and check it after class is over. shrug

tylerc

13-06-2006 13:49:23

I put it on vibrate because everyone at my school text messages during class anyway so no one cares if it goes off.

ilanbg

13-06-2006 14:10:22

I don't even have mine on.

I fucking hate phones. I probably talk on a phone (any; landline, cell) no more than 10 minutes a month. On my cell phone my conversations don't even exceed a full minute.

Taerth

13-06-2006 16:28:40

Both my parent's couldn't hear it. lol

Crymson

13-06-2006 17:55:50

Well I can hear it, I'm 22. But my mom can hear it too and she is 46...so I'm not sold.

ilanbg

13-06-2006 18:06:23

It just has to do with how good one's hearing is. As we get older our hearing obviously gets worse. But some adults probably still have good hearing and can't hear it.

double_d

13-06-2006 18:06:28

[quote600a51fb0c="ilanbg"]I don't even have mine on.

I fucking hate phones. I probably talk on a phone (any; landline, cell) no more than 10 minutes a month. On my cell phone my conversations don't even exceed a full minute.[/quote600a51fb0c]

Amen. I wish that was my usage. A friend of mine wants to talk for 45 minutes (I ain't bullshittin', 45 minutes!) [b600a51fb0c]everytime[/b600a51fb0c] he calls me. Needless to say, I answer that call about once a month. When he and I worked at the same place, he would call everyday and want to talk forever. WTF!

phoebe7

15-06-2006 07:43:43

I just played this ringtone and my ears hurt real bad right now. It's sooo high pitched. Ow.

hairyferry

15-06-2006 13:05:25

ah man I played this sound and my Rottweiler was downstairs and he came runnin full blow upstairs to where I was.. haha that was so funny.

akalic

21-06-2006 15:34:56

feels like my ears are going to implode. and yea its the same description as veek's, u can hear it when u turn off all ur electronics and sit all alone in ur quiet dark room lislitli

samz465

21-06-2006 16:09:02

Just heard it...
My dad didnt though...

Nimh

21-06-2006 18:58:58

[quote3afdb02e16="ilanbg"][quote3afdb02e16="theysayjump"][quote3afdb02e16="sweeedfish"]Here's a link to the file, http//download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3[/quote3afdb02e16][/quote3afdb02e16]

Thanks man.

I imagine that sound could be pretty useful at some point. I don't know what for, but eh. shrug


That sound would definitely keep me from loitering though.[/quote3afdb02e16]

I used to hear that sound by Macy's when I went to the mall with my mom. I hated that sound. I would definately not put that on my cell phone.