This is just f#@!in crazy!!!

[Darksaviour69]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/5382324.stm

A high-pitched alarm designed to repel youngsters from shops is being used for the melody of a dance track after the success of a mobile phone ringtone.

Merthyr Tydfil-based Compound Security released the "Mosquito" ringtone as a way of letting teenagers hear their phones ringing without adults knowing.

It was developed because adults lose the ability to hear high-pitched sound.

But now the sound is being used in a dance track, Buzzin', with secret melodies only young ears can hear.

The tune was developed after the success of the company's ringtone which was released in June.

[razorak]

it's true...it's being used as a ringtone in schools that ban handphones within compounds here since the teacher's can't hear it.

[bullhead]

Where can I try to hear it?

[Darksaviour69]

Where can I try to hear it?
i was thinking the same thing.... is 23 too old?

[bullhead]

Dunno, i doubt 18 could be too old... But when people say things, I tend to say "what?" quite often...

[razorak]

i'm 16 and i can hear it btw...18 may have a chance....

[bullhead]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/audio/mosquito_sound.mp3

Turn the volume up, you can hear it. It feels like someone is pulling a very fine hair out of the centre of your brain out through your ear...

[razorak]

lol...wad a description...true though. One of them is awfully high pitched, and covering your ears didn't help very much sometimes

[bullhead]

One of them? Can you link me to the place you listened to them?

[Darksaviour69]

yeah i can hear it if i plug in my head phone and turn it to full blast, the other guy in the office ( hes in his late 30s) can't hear it at all. Thats nuts!

edit: yeah i'm still young! i bet old man wraggs can't hear it!

[bullhead]

Yeah probably....What is he? .... Like a hundred and six?

[Darksaviour69]

Yeah probably....What is he? .... Like a hundred and six?
106 x 10^6years old...... how the hell do u do notation in ASCII text

[bullhead]

I think its; triangle/ triangle /X /square/ R1/ R2/L1/ Left /down/ right/ up/ up/ right/ down/ left/ man. I think thats how its done. Give it a go...

[Darksaviour69]

triangle/X/Square... ftw everyone knows its A/B/C.... who the hell uses silly shapes for buttons?




(sonic one level select, up/down/left/righ/tA/B/C/Start

[bullhead]

triangle/X/Square... ftw everyone knows its A/B/C.... who the hell uses silly shapes for buttons?




(sonic one level select, up/down/left/righ/tA/B/C/Start
Now thats a man who is certainly set in his ways! hahaha! But he can still hear sounds at high frequencys, so its all good, like chineese food(not emerald chineese food though)

[razorak]

i listened to them off my fren's handphone...lol

[AtariFreek]

i can't hear it. I am in my late 20's, btw i'm using a cafe computer. And the kid next to me covered his ears lol.

[Kaiser]

edit: yeah i'm still young! i bet old man wraggs can't hear it!

Haha

We definitely need him to try it out sometime today. :D

...and yes I can hear it, but only after cranking the volume up.

[razorak]

i can't hear it. I am in my late 20's, btw i'm using a cafe computer. And the kid next to me covered his ears lol.


And there the poor kid must be wondering where the sound came from or if he does know that, whether are u deaf or something :D

[mesosade]

omfg...this bloody loud!!!! 14 btw

[ExcruciationX]

I can hear it too.

[dejkirkby]

That hurt my head and I'm 26.

[Kramer]

Lol I let my mum listen to it and she didnt know what I was talking about she couldnt hear a thing except people in the background.

[DoofDilla]

well, i can cleary hear it at moderate volume and i'm 30, but i know that i have very good ears so i might be just an exception to the rule :D

[ACID]

ok that noise makes mi head pound.

[wraggster]

yeah i can hear it if i plug in my head phone and turn it to full blast, the other guy in the office ( hes in his late 30s) can't hear it at all. Thats nuts!

edit: yeah i'm still young! i bet old man wraggs can't hear it!

nope i cant

but working with engines every day makes me less sensitive

[dejkirkby]

Don't blame the engines Gramps!!

[Nafogel]

here (http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3) is a better link with no background noise. here (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5434687) is the source page. I'm 18 and i can hear it just fine, but i havent tried it on any old timers yet

[Kramer]

here (http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3) is a better link with no background noise. here (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5434687) is the source page. I'm 18 and i can hear it just fine, but i havent tried it on any old timers yet
damn that one hurts, my ears wont stop ringing now.

[Junixx]

Ow that hurt my ears, lol good to know i can hear it though....ill ask my parents about it tonight when they get home :p

:Edit:

Uhh my dad can hear it fine and hes like 40 something

[pibs]

hey i know it keeps ringing in my ear i dont like it very much ><

this is nuts though its gona be my ringtone :)

[ninja9393]

i can kinda hear it and i am 16

[Video_freak]

That sound is so......disturbing. It's literally driving me crazy! :(

[stotheamuel]

Haha My dad can't hear it... what an old man..

[Video_freak]

My mother (40s) cannot hear it either. It sound sso loud to me though!

[Nafogel]

haha, i played it in a bar tonight on my i-pod and nobody knew where the sound was coming from and people were just looking all around with absolutely no clue. There were some old timers who couldnt here it, but most adults up to about their late thirties could hear.

[pibs]

haha imagen it wus like the brown noise from southpark hahaha

[Video_freak]

haha imagen it wus like the brown noise from southpark hahaha
OMG! I was just watching that episode! :eek:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=v8e8KNX2jWE

[ACID]

Hey im 30 and i can here it. and its anoying

[M!ckeY]

this hurt my freaking ears..i had set the volume on my computer all the way up, i almost died >.<

[razorak]

ROFL :)
good thing 've only heard a soft version from a hp ^^