Teenager repellent ringtone

biko · 13-06-2006 10:29AM #1

The teenager repellent Mosquito (still experimental) is now going to be turned into a ringtone.

The Mosquito emits a high-frequency pulsing sound that inventor claims can be heard by most people younger than 20 and almost no one older than 30. The sound is designed to so irritate young people that after several minutes, they cannot stand it and go away. The device is to be used at shops etc where groups of teens would hang out, smoke and make customers uncomfortable.

Now this sound is being offered as a ringtone that the teacher can't hear (unless he or she is also young).

Hmmm, I'm 31, might get the repellent for outside of my house in the city. Effing Buckie brigade.

Attol · 13-06-2006 10:32AM

They tried that out at some shop in England iirc but it was taken away as people weren't sure about the legality of such a device.

monkeyfudge · 13-06-2006 10:41AM

I was reading about this recently and made up my own ringtone using it.

I can hear it just fine and I'm 28.... I'm guessing it's a pretty poor idea to have in a shopping centre.

But a good few other people in my office can't hear it.

I can't hear anything above 17khz though.

NutJob · 13-06-2006 10:48AM

Im 24 and its just a bad idea. You want one of these
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_range_acoustic_device

If ur going to assault teenagers do it propperly burst some eardrums and least then when you get sued for assault its all worth it.

padi89 · 13-06-2006 10:54AM

Somebody posted the noise there on a website recently.I can hear it fine and it didnt bother me, in fact it didnt bother most people only those that had the volume high with headphones on:D

monkeyfudge · 13-06-2006 10:57AM

padi89 wrote:

Somebody posted the noise there on a website recently.I can hear it fine and it didnt bother me, in fact it didnt bother most people only those that had the volume high with headphones on:D

Yep... but have you seen the speakers that this company markets? They're pretty hefty looking and I'd imagine that the sound is very loud at the location.

biko · 13-06-2006 11:17AM

NutJob wrote:

Im 24 and its just a bad idea. You want one of these
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_range_acoustic_device

If ur going to assault teenagers do it propperly burst some eardrums and least then when you get sued for assault its all worth it.

Well, the LRAD also uses a high freq noise.

I had a look on Da Net and now want "The brown note"! According to an urban legend it's an infrasonic frequency that causes humans to lose control of their bowels due to resonance.

Ivan · 13-06-2006 11:38AM

monkeyfudge wrote:

Yep... but have you seen the speakers that this company markets? They're pretty hefty looking and I'd imagine that the sound is very loud at the location.

So, how's that gonna work with a mobile phone then?

monkeyfudge · 13-06-2006 11:48AM

Ivan wrote:

So, how's that gonna work with a mobile phone then?

Well it wasn't designed for that. It was built to deter teenagers from hanging around shopping centres... but the teenagers hijacked the sound and have started using it as a ring tone that their teachers can't hear.

The company that made the tone caught on to this and are now selling the sound as a ring tone on their website.

I genreated a 16khz tone and saved it as an MP3 and put it on my phone yesterday. I can hear it pretty clearly when it rings, but a good few people older than me can't... so it is amusing.

padi89 · 13-06-2006 11:50AM

monkeyfudge wrote:

Yep... but have you seen the speakers that this company markets? They're pretty hefty looking and I'd imagine that the sound is very loud at the location.

I saw it on a news report cant remember if it was sky or the beeb.But they basically tested it on a load of kids outside the shop and it didnt bother most of them.

padi89 · 13-06-2006 11:51AM

Double post.

padi89 · 13-06-2006 11:53AM

biko wrote:

Well, the LRAD also uses a high freq noise.

I had a look on Da Net and now want "The brown note"! According to an urban legend it's an infrasonic frequency that causes humans to lose control of their bowels due to resonance.

They tried that experiment on some naff science programme on Sky once.The guy from top gear presents it, didnt work unfortunatly.
I wonder if its possible though? I know really really deep heavy bass can turn your stomach queesy.
Ever hear the Chemical Brothers Base Test???? Jesus thats mental through a good sound rig.They should use it for knocking buildings.

pork99 · 13-06-2006 11:59AM

Apparently classical music has the same effect.

trillianv · 13-06-2006 12:04PM

pork99 wrote:

Apparently classical music has the same effect.

Whenever me and my brothers got too rowdy in the house or my mom wanted us to clear out for awhile (we were all pretty close in age) she would just throw on some Mozart or Beethoven fairly loudly---Opera works well too or Yodeling

I am not that old yet, 27, but I find it rather annoying when a lot of people, adults and teenagers, congregrate below in our complex's carpark at 2 am on a Saturday. I sometimes wish I had a high powered water hose

padi89 · 13-06-2006 12:11PM

pork99 wrote:

Apparently classical music has the same effect.

Classical,thats just great.I enjoy a bit now and again but sher it would be just too uncool for the teens.Mid-West radio should also do the job.

Gordon · 13-06-2006 12:32PM

Jesus, 16khz isn't audible by 30 year olds?

zilog_jones · 13-06-2006 12:49PM

Is the noise generated by this ringtone similar to those "ultrasonic" insect repellent things? I'm 20 and they annoy the shat out of me!

daveirl · 13-06-2006 01:01PM

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Hugh Hefner · 13-06-2006 01:03PM

Any links to the sound?

biko · 13-06-2006 01:04PM

I found Teen Buzz here http://www.infowing.ch/web/sounds/mms/248-teenbuzz.mp3 but I cant hear it

Is there a sound?

Eh, mods I hope it's ok to link. Can't see any copyrights issue if it's recorded live and put up on the net. Maybe it's considered a bootleg?

Irishpimpdude · 13-06-2006 01:15PM

biko wrote:

I found Teen Buzz here http://www.infowing.ch/web/sounds/mms/248-teenbuzz.mp3 but I cant hear it Is there a sound?

Eh, mods I hope it's ok to link. Can't see any copyrights issue if it's recorded live and put up on the net. Maybe it's considered a bootleg?

yea there is a sound

dont listen too long it would make your ears bleed, mine are hurtin now

zilog_jones · 13-06-2006 01:18PM

I can't see it being too reliable if it's 16kHz - a lot of audio systems would filter out frequencies that high before they get to the speakers, and it's questionable wether a lot of mobile phones would be able to reproduce sound that high even moreso, as the speakers on them are generally crap.

Ciaran500 · 13-06-2006 01:25PM

When I play it normally I can't here anything, but play around with my sound card settings and there is definatley something there.

I'm 19 btw.

Hugh Hefner · 13-06-2006 01:26PM

I downloaded it from the CNN news-story, here. I listened to it and bloody hell I could hear it. It hurt a bit and that wasn't even on loud. Even when it wasn't exactly audible there was a feeling of hearing something high pitched, but underwater, as though I could feel the sound. Even 10 minutes later it was still messing with me. I listened to it again a moment ago and it's still very annoying. Ah! Goddamit! It's still at me!

biko wrote:

I found Teen Buzz here http://www.infowing.ch/web/sounds/mms/248-teenbuzz.mp3 but I cant hear it Is there a sound?

Eh, mods I hope it's ok to link. Can't see any copyrights issue if it's recorded live and put up on the net. Maybe it's considered a bootleg?

I listended to that one. It's completely different to the CNN one. I can hear it perfectly but it doesn't hurt and isn't annoying either.

Ciaran500 · 13-06-2006 01:30PM

Hugh Hefner wrote:

I downloaded it from the CNN news-story, here. I listened to it and bloody hell I could hear it. It hurt a bit and that wasn't even on loud. Even when it wasn't exactly audible there was a feeling of hearing something high pitched, but underwater, as though I could feel the sound. Even 10 minutes later it was still messing with me. I listened to it again a moment ago and it's still very annoying. Ah! Goddamit! It's still at me!

I can hear that one perfectly but it doesn't bother me at all

Umiq88 · 13-06-2006 01:36PM

yeah can hear it (18) really high pitched beeping noise

biko · 13-06-2006 01:44PM

Hmmm, I can hear the CNN one. Ear pierching.
I'm over 30 btw

snickerpuss · 13-06-2006 01:46PM

Yeah in that first link i couldn't hear anything but my god could i hear it in that second link. (I'm 19) Ow!

Zapp Brannigan · 13-06-2006 01:54PM

I think I have this on my phone. A mate of mine got it in England off some Chavs a month or 2 back.
After playing it in school I had to send it to everyone and all we could hear constantly was the noise goin. Very interesting to read that people over 30 supposedly can't hear it, cos one time in English some of "the lads" were playing it and were pissed cos they weren't getting a reaction from the teacher.

EDIT: After listening to the links I defintiely have it on my phone. Except my one is just uner a minute long.

OctavarIan · 13-06-2006 03:14PM

I had this blaring, and it didn't hurt at all. Made my nose feel a bit weird afterwards, but that's because its sorta blocked? My headache has worsened a bit though

. (17) This wouldn't annoy me tbh, maybe I need giant speakers.

weeder · 13-06-2006 03:28PM

play the cnet one at the same time as the other one

Teenager repellent ringtone

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