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pirtybirdy 'Native New Yorker'
Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: FL USA
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject: NY Schoolkids Use Cell-Phone Ring Tone Teachers Can't Hear |
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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. |
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IRiSHMaFIA Admin
Joined: 29 Apr 2006
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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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) |
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pirtybirdy 'Native New Yorker'
Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: FL USA
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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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!! |
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IRiSHMaFIA Admin
Joined: 29 Apr 2006
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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pirtybirdy wrote: | 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!! |
If I try it and don't hear it, does that mean we're too old? God forbid? My ego would be crushed. Dare I try?
Hook me up with the url to the ringtone pirty |
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pirtybirdy 'Native New Yorker'
Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: FL USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:41 am Post subject: |
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IRiSHMaFIA wrote: |
If I try it and don't hear it, does that mean we're too old? God forbid? My ego would be crushed. Dare I try?
Hook me up with the url to the ringtone pirty |
Yup. We are old, or maybe you will get lucky and have ears of a teenager. Here's the link to the news article. I have no idea how to paste the ring tones, so ya can click it from there. ;-)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199119,00.html |
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IRiSHMaFIA Admin
Joined: 29 Apr 2006
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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:17 am Post subject: |
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pirtybirdy wrote: | IRiSHMaFIA wrote: |
If I try it and don't hear it, does that mean we're too old? God forbid? My ego would be crushed. Dare I try?
Hook me up with the url to the ringtone pirty |
Yup. We are old, or maybe you will get lucky and have ears of a teenager. Here's the link to the news article. I have no idea how to paste the ring tones, so ya can click it from there. ;-)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199119,00.html |
I can't hear a bleedin thing |
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Skylace Admin
Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:29 am Post subject: |
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IRiSHMaFIA wrote: | pirtybirdy wrote: | IRiSHMaFIA wrote: |
If I try it and don't hear it, does that mean we're too old? God forbid? My ego would be crushed. Dare I try?
Hook me up with the url to the ringtone pirty |
Yup. We are old, or maybe you will get lucky and have ears of a teenager. Here's the link to the news article. I have no idea how to paste the ring tones, so ya can click it from there. ;-)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199119,00.html |
I can't hear a bleedin thing |
Good lord! That is damn irritating! :grr: That went off in one of my classrooms I would be angry and irritated. |
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faceless admin
Joined: 25 Apr 2006
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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:47 am Post subject: |
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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 |
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cat21
Joined: 06 May 2006
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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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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 |
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Ally 'Taffia'
Joined: 29 Apr 2006
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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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I could hear it but only with earphones on. Couldn't hear a thing before I put them on. |
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girldorksrule Arrrrrrr...scurvy!
Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Location: Walkin' the plank
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:11 am Post subject: |
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That is painful...I can hear it too well. |
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eefanincan Admin
Joined: 29 Apr 2006 Location: Canada
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 3:19 am Post subject: |
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IRiSHMaFIA wrote: | 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) |
LOL!
I could hear the tone and it's friggin' annoying! Woke my poor dog up too. I couldn't imagine having a room full of kids with cellphones doing that. |
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radiomanpj
Joined: 29 Apr 2006
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:32 am Post subject: |
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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. |
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Gasman59 Resident Ghost Hunter
Joined: 13 May 2006 Location: Pennsylvania USA
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:30 am Post subject: |
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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 !!! |
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