NY Schoolkids Use Cell-Phone Ring Tone Teachers Can't Hear

[pirtybirdy]

New York Schoolkids Use Cell-Phone Ring Tone Teachers Can't Hear
Monday, June 12, 2006


NEW YORK ? 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, told the New York Times 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.

[IRiSHMaFIA]

If I don't want anyone hearing mine I use the vibrator and it's sorted.

(We're talking about my mobile by the way)

[pirtybirdy]

yeah, I'm not sure how that's working or why they do it that way. It has a link with the website so one can "hear" the tone, but I didn't hear anything. Guess it really works!LOL!!

[IRiSHMaFIA]

[pirtybirdy]

[IRiSHMaFIA]

[Skylace]

[faceless]

I've always had pretty acute hearing and that fits well within my range. I'm not sure why I can hear these things, but I can go higher too and even predict when someone's TV is needing repaired before they even have a clue there's a problem as there's an even higher pitched whistle that emanates!

I'm great fun at parties haha

[cat21]

Yeehaw...I'm not as old as my birth certificate says!!

I can hear that clear as and yes...its DAMN annoying!!

P.S. I have been a teenager for over 25 years

[Ally]

I could hear it but only with earphones on. Couldn't hear a thing before I put them on.

[girldorksrule]

That is painful...I can hear it too well.

[eefanincan]

[radiomanpj]

I could barely hear it with headphones on.

But I drive a truck and my ears are ringing all the time so it's hard to tell when its the ring or a tone.

[Gasman59]

Hell I did good. I'm 38 and heard the friggin thing. Who says that the Heavy Metal concerts of the 80's destroy your hearing ???
And the sound is annoying as Hell !!!