New cell phone ringtones

[agoodgolfer]

Teens can hear it, adults cant..

Thought this was interesting.

Straight from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060612/ap_on_...youth_ring_tone :

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.

[Golf_Beauty]

I saw this on KING 5 News here in Seattle this morning. Crazy. :crazy: I already know my daughter is going to try to get this ringtone. In our house, her phone is not to be used in school except for emergencies only, but this new technology is certainly going to make her test this rule.

[Placebo]

So are teachers going to be required to have hearing ear dogs now? :crazy:

[shoe295]

So are teachers going to be required to have hearing ear dogs now? :friends:

 

 

LOL...dogs howl then point at the culprit. What a concept...just what teenagers need is another way to get over on dad. As long as they don't do half the stuff I did they'll be fine perhaps, maybe, I hope. Mine really do think I'm daft as it is...now they'll know I can't hear as well. Sigh