Ring Tone that Adults Can’t Hear – Free Download
My college Calculus I class is a killer! I mean, it is tearing me apart, eating me alive! We were taking our midterm exam last week and it was really difficult. After I was finished with my test and left the classroom, I checked the messages on my cell phone. As I pressed “TALK,” I thought, “Crap! I left my ringer on again!” Imagine what would have happened if somebody called me in the middle of my test. My professor is known for dismissing students with an audible cell phone during a test and giving them an “egg shaped grade.” He even warned us that on our first day! I can not afford a bad grade on my transcript!
Such a dilemma is experienced by thousands of students around the westernized world. We forget to silence our cell phones during school and we don’t want to keep it on silent or vibrate permanently. Is there any rest for the weary? Comfort is found in the Mosquito.
The Mosquito is a ringtone that was inspired by the Teenager Repellent. Like here in the States, the United Kingdom is burdened with teenage loitering. Their answer, the Teenager Repellent, emits an annoying, cycling, high pitched, mosquito-like noise that only young people can hear. Usually, this cheap investment is enough to drive the delinquents away. Generally, the cutoff hearing age is 20 years.
The Mosquito generates sound from the same sonic frequencies and packages it in a nifty little ring tone. Since most – if not all – professors have well passed their early twenties, the mosquito is imperceptible to them.
I’ve created my own version of the Mosquito with Audacity so that I will not have to pay – and since it is so much cooler to tell my friends that I made my ringtone! You can download the Single Tone here.
So, set your ringers as loud as you can handle. Relax, your teachers won’t hear a single thing! 🙂
Read the New York Times Article Here.
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December 8th, 2006 at 11:09 am
I am 23 years old, I played these mp3 files in my browser and I can hear them loud and clear. Cant wait to see if my mother can here these sounds.
December 8th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Same here, 28 years old.
December 8th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Im 30 in feb and I can hear them both loud and clear….then agian Im a child at heart…..
December 8th, 2006 at 6:14 pm
According to the New York Times article, it doesn’t affect people 40+, not 20+.
December 8th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
33 and it made my ears feel like they were going to bleed.
December 9th, 2006 at 11:01 am
My mother is 55 years old and she can hear it.
December 14th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
I’m 33 and this pierces my ears and actually makes me dizzy and sick to my stomach.
July 11th, 2007 at 1:22 am
I’m 24 and can hear it fine.
I also noticed that on my laptop when the volume was about about 25% there was some kind if distortion that made a much lower pitched tone that anyone that isn’t deaf could hear. (With headphones or external amp/speaker system this lower pitched noise wasn’t there)
July 11th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
consider yourself lucky, dacheetah! my friend who is 19 cannot hear it. 🙂 that distortion you were describing is very characteristic of internal speakers commonly found in laptops. try testing it on external speakers and with people in your peer group.
January 1st, 2008 at 8:19 pm
My Mom and Dad, 43 and 44 respectively can hear this ring loud and clear….try again
January 30th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
OMFG. I am 14, I can hear it but my step dad, 45, and my mom, 33, cannot hear it. they didn’t beleive it was playing at first. ahaha.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I’m 44 and the damned thing gave me a splitting headache. I can hear it plain as day.
May 31st, 2008 at 12:13 pm
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June 10th, 2008 at 11:58 am
love it
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