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Can you hear this sound? This is "The Sound Only Kids Can Hear"... Can you hear it?
http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5434687
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As a parent, I can say with utmost authority that's not the ONLY sound they hear adults don't.......under about age 12....they can hear ice cream within a mile radius. Once they hit 13 years old, they can tell the difference of Dad his empty wallet from one with 20s and 50s.
Sorry for the lame joke!
In seriousness, I found two more called Mosquito also. Both differ from yours and only the second one was hard for this 43 year old to hear.
The first on the NY Times site.....it is different than yours.
Sorry for the lame joke!
In seriousness, I found two more called Mosquito also. Both differ from yours and only the second one was hard for this 43 year old to hear.
The first on the NY Times site.....it is different than yours.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/technology/12ring.html
http://www.jetcityorange.com/mosquito-ringtone/mosquito-ringtone-MP3.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/technology/12ring.html
http://www.jetcityorange.com/mosquito-ringtone/mosquito-ringtone-MP3.html
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I could hear both of em loud and clear, now my ears hurt again, LOL.
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Yes is it the Mosquito Ringtone
OUCH THAT HURT.
I heard it alright. I think it just wiped all the ear wax out of both sides of my head. Holy cow...
Then again, it doesn't surprise me. I can hear a TV that's on with the sound turned off, it makes some high pitched noise that drives me wild. I can easily hear it from the other side of a building. Teachers that would leave a TV on with the sound off to teach a lesson and show a video after were horrible, I couldn't focus on what they were saying because of that racket.
This is interesting though, I'll be curious to see if other adults can hear it or not.
I heard it alright. I think it just wiped all the ear wax out of both sides of my head. Holy cow...
Then again, it doesn't surprise me. I can hear a TV that's on with the sound turned off, it makes some high pitched noise that drives me wild. I can easily hear it from the other side of a building. Teachers that would leave a TV on with the sound off to teach a lesson and show a video after were horrible, I couldn't focus on what they were saying because of that racket.
This is interesting though, I'll be curious to see if other adults can hear it or not.
I heard some white noise followed by a blip.
Ok, I would throw my phone against a wall if that is the tone I heard when it rang! I'm thinking it doesn't exactly work with just kids since I don't think I really fall into that category anymore.
I'd think it must work well for shopkeepers to be using it in their stores and kids to be using it for their ringtones in schools... so why can all sorts of adults hear it online? Could there be some difference between the type of recording played online and the type of recording used in stores/ringtones?
ehhhhhh. Yes. Probably harder to hear, when it's in your pocket though, huh?
Yes. I can hear it (it hurts) and it made my daughter scream with pain when I just played it.
Except for the crackling, on a few "peeps" during play and a final "blip." Since others say it hurts, I'm just as glad I couldn't!
It's known as "The Mosquito". And I hate it. Every time we have a school-wide assembly, there's always some idiot that decides to play it to be funny. When we grimace, the teachers start to yell at us for being disruptive. If I ever find the kid that does it, I'm locking him in a room with massive speakers, hooked up to computers playing a bunch of different variations of the Mosquito
I, too, can hear the sound of a TV/similar appliances being on, and it drives me nuts.
I, too, can hear the sound of a TV/similar appliances being on, and it drives me nuts.
At least hearing the TV on with no sound can be useful sometimes. There have been times when my mom shut her TV off but, for whatever reason, it didn't shut off all the way. I tell her it's still on, she says no it's not, I say yes it is, she hits the power button and it bleeps off, and I get to say my I-told-you-so's.
Yes I can. I am 38 and, knock on wood, seem to have good hearing.
I live in Japan now and have a problem with the entrance to restaurants because they tend to have a high pitch device mounted above the doorways to keep out rats. It also works on teenagers (and me for some ungodly reason..)
I live in Japan now and have a problem with the entrance to restaurants because they tend to have a high pitch device mounted above the doorways to keep out rats. It also works on teenagers (and me for some ungodly reason..)
Yep. A high-pitched whining, with squeek-like blips and static over the whole thing. It didn't hurt, though. My 4-year-old could hear it but says it didn't hurt her ears either, so maybe it's our cheap speakers.
Neither my wife or I could the sounds though my 13 and 17 year olds could.
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