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Bergamotichek
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 Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:48 pm Post subject: So this is the ringtone, I'm not supposed to be able to hear? |
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http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3
Guess I haven't developed that "aging ear" at 39 y/o, though I've always been extremely sensitive to high pitched frequencies.
Good thing thing I'm not a teacher... I'd be busting a lot of heads... especially if that annoying noise was going off in my classroom.
| Quote: | Students find ring tone adults can't hear
Mon Jun 12, 1:45 PM ET
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. |
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TEEGUNN
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I don't know if the download is broken - but I couldn't hear a thing, and I am "only" 36.
Damn kids!!
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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| It makes me bark. |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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 CRAP!!
that hurt my ears! That would be the most annoying ringer,( if you can call it that) to listen to.
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Tony Montana
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| I'm 35, and my ears are still ringing from listening to that. I guess I'm aging well in some ways at least :roll: |
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AboveTheRim
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| Sounds like something someone would get tortured with. |
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Ziggy
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What is the point anyway? It's not like they can answer their phones right there in the middle of class. And even if they could, haven't they ever heard of vibrate mode? Silly kids  .... |
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lakersfreak
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| ouch |
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ocho
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:53 am Post subject: |
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| if my phone rang and that was the ring tone...no way i'd hear it. |
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| DancingBarry wrote: | | It makes me bark. |
btw, dang JD you're old  |
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prisma8slg
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my young ears of 26 can pick this up. buy why? it hurts my ears.
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| DancingBarry wrote: | | It makes me bark. |
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