Ringtone only teens can hear!!

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ANetworkWorldWeblog said:
God bless the U.K., because without it there'd be fewer odd mobile phone stories.

The latest: Teens are downloading a ringtone that can be heard by their peers, but not by adults.

The high-pitched alarm, which was originally intended to drive teen gangs away from shopping centers, has been turned into a ringtone known as "Teen Buzz."

The ringtone allow students to receive calls and text messages during class without their teachers' knowledge.

Said one high school teacher in Wales: "One of the other children told me all about it later. I couldn't be too cross, because it shows resourcefulness."

Yet another reason to love our pals from the Mother Country - they use cool words like "cross."
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Download it here.

I think its crap because I'm twice the age of some teenagers and I can hear it loud and clear and it hurts. Another guy I work with is 50 and he can hear it fine too. Of course, 3 other co-workers over 40 couldn't hear it at all. You decide if its right for you! :dozey:
 
Saw this at another site too. It was pretty random who could hear it and who couldnt. From our results on that thread, it didnt seem to matter what age you were, because some teens couldnt hear it, some could, and the same with older people.

Pretty cool none-the-less.
 
I am going to try it out at school cuz i r 2 kul 4 skul. When I go back in September... :hmph:
 
I can't hear that stuff...

my brother was obsessed with those for a couple days. He'd tell me to come in his room and see if I could hear anything. He seemed to be aggrivated that I could not.
 
Why don't they just set it on vibrate? Pretty ****ing stupid if you ask me.
 
All i can hear is a ****ing high pitch screeching and pulsed crackling noise.

What's it meant to sound like to teens?
 
Raxxman said:
that ringtone makes me feel sick.

*edit* and I'm 25
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Not as bad as a soundfile/piece of music i made that actually made my friend sick, and made everyone else nauseous.

Basically how you do it is to make a sound that is the same wavelength as the length of one or more of the inner ear bones, thus resonating them.

Inner ear is associated with balance and therefore if you upset it, makes you feel ill.
If you have a certain tune that has exactly the right sounds in the right rythm for all the ears structural compenents then you have a soundfile that can be used for torture, and they do.
 
Is it supposed to be just a buzz?

No hearing defects here if so. Although maybe I'm not as sensitive because it's not annoying me. You could use these sounds to disperse young charvers :D
 
There's been some kids around here playing this ringtone. I heard it, and I'm 30 :)
 
Can hear it loud and clear.
Apart from the creation of Jamba/Jambster, that's the worst ring tone ever.
 
Hmmm...I can't HEAR it per say, but I do have a headache now.
 
Terminator said:
Not as bad as a soundfile/piece of music i made that actually made my friend sick, and made everyone else nauseous.

Basically how you do it is to make a sound that is the same wavelength as the length of one or more of the inner ear bones, thus resonating them.

Inner ear is associated with balance and therefore if you upset it, makes you feel ill.
If you have a certain tune that has exactly the right sounds in the right rythm for all the ears structural compenents then you have a soundfile that can be used for torture, and they do.
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Ooh upload it somewhere. That'd be nice to play to some friends heh.
 
Ugh I can hear it loud and clear and it hurts.

edit: who would use that as a ringtone isn't it designed to drive people away? wtf? I don't see the point like was already said vibrate has the exact same 'secrecy' effect.
 
I bet the teens who can't hear it are the ones who blast music in their ears all day, draining their eardrums of elasticity.
 
TheSomeone said:
I bet the teens who can't hear it are the ones who blast music in their ears all day, draining their eardrums of elasticity.
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Or those ones that take drugs in their ears. :smoking:
 
Oooh, the relief when you play it for a few seconds and then turn it off.
 
Umm...Wouldn't the "silent" feature on a phone be more effective?
 
I'm 20 and I don't notice it unless I really focus on it and then it sounds kind of like really high pitched breaks squealing.
 
TheSomeone said:
I bet the teens who can't hear it are the ones who blast music in their ears all day, draining their eardrums of elasticity.
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Actually they're killing the nerve endings in their Cochlear membranes :)

I heard it, and I'm 34 :)
 
This fad has been going on for ages at my college. That idea of only teens hearing it is bollocks. The actual idea is to piss people off. That really high pitch means you can't detect where it's coming from, so people put it on their phones to play it, hurt your hearing, and you can't do a thing. Pretty clever really, my cat doesn't agree either though.
 
VictimOfScience said:
Download it here.

I think its crap because I'm twice the age of some teenagers and I can hear it loud and clear and it hurts. Another guy I work with is 50 and he can hear it fine too. Of course, 3 other co-workers over 40 couldn't hear it at all. You decide if its right for you! :dozey:
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What the heck? I can't hear it. I turned the volume to maximum but I couldn't hear anything.
 
its just to do with frequency and range of hearing, don't get bent out of shape over it.

I can just hear it it's not loud and distrubing for me, but it does hit me somewhere round my throat (prob resonance) and it really makes me feel funny.
 
15357 said:
What the heck? I can't hear it. I turned the volume to maximum but I couldn't hear anything.
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You're not missing out it's an extremely unnerving tone that makes you uneasy and you want to turn it off right away. I left it on a long time to see if I could and I felt sick.
 
Actually, that sound is kind of relaxing...apart from how it makes my head explode.
 
Yeah, it hurts.

Interestingly, my 20 year old friend can't. Too many Manowar concerts, he thinks.
 
I can only hear this faint clicking sound
 
It's probably somewhere around the 19,000 Hz wavelength.
Most people can't hear above 19,000 Hz (Don't be worried a few of my friends can't hear above 16,000 Hz, it's a genetic trait, not because you listened to the wrong music all the time (although that also influences it) :p ). I can just barely hear 19,000 Hz. Well, I could. I tested it last year, but your hearing degrades with some 1,000 Hz each few years.
 
The younger you are, the more high pitched tunes you can perceive.
 
Shippi said:
I could hear it all fine.

I found a site where a guy had posted a range of sounds of various frequencies - 15,000 Hz to 21,000 Hz I think. I could hear them all, though 21,000 Hz hurt my brain D:

edit: found it! http://www.ochenk.com/entry.php?id=63 It was 10,000 to 25,000

edit2: the 25,000 Hz one is weird. I can hear *something*, but it's not until it finishes that I'm sure :p
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I can get to about 15-16hz before it starts to hurt (16k) and I don't hear anything but clicks from 17k forward.
 
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