Students Find Ring Tone Adults Can’t Hear

June 12th, 2006 | by audit |

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.

I will be testing this out tonight when I get home and see if my 7 and 9 year old can hear this. I can’t but then again I can’t hear shit most of the time anyhow.

File is located at http://www.c2wifi.org/?dl=freq.mp3 for anyone that wants it.

  1. One Response to “Students Find Ring Tone Adults Can’t Hear”

  2. By seeker of thw omni on Jun 13, 2006 | Reply

    That is the most anoyning tone ever, ranks up there with teh `tards of the NS fourms.

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