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

 
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pirtybirdy
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:15 pm    Post subject: NY Schoolkids Use Cell-Phone Ring Tone Teachers Can't Hear Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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) Embarassed
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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!! Smile Smile Smile
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IRiSHMaFIA
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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!! Smile Smile Smile


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 thumbs
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pirtybirdy
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 thumbs


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
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 thumbs


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 Crying
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 thumbs


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 Crying


Good lord! That is damn irritating! :grr: That went off in one of my classrooms I would be angry and irritated. Shocked
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I could hear it but only with earphones on. Couldn't hear a thing before I put them on.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is painful...I can hear it too well.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 3:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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) Embarassed


LOL! Very Happy

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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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. Crying
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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