Remember The Mosquito Alarm aka the chav detterent

gib786 · 25 May 2006 at 00:39

A high-pitched alarm which cannot be heard by adults has been hijacked by schoolchildren to create ringtones so they can get away with using phones in class.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=14031&in_page_id=2

Anyone know where to get the tone from?

DailyGeek · 25 May 2006 at 00:42

Thats quality!

gib786 · 25 May 2006 at 00:42

DailyGeek said:
Thats quality!

aye, thats why i really want the tone, just so i can play it out of my speakers to annoy the nearby chavlings, and to obviously shove onto my mobile

punky_munky · 25 May 2006 at 00:43

Can they play frequencies that high?

gib786 · 25 May 2006 at 00:54

apparently the razr's speaker can handle up to 22khz, read it on digg iirc:

http://www.digg.com/technology/Teenager_repellent_Mosquito_turned_into_ringtone

theres some samples on there as well

Al Vallario · 25 May 2006 at 00:58

Schoolchildren have recorded the sound, which they named Teen Buzz, and spread it from phone to phone via text messages and Bluetooth technology.

Now they can receive calls and texts during lessons without teachers having the faintest idea what is going on.

Juvenile delinquents with the intuition to record an ultra-high frequency noise on their mobile phones and spread it around via bluetooth? Surely I'm not the only one to doubt this; not least due to the technical limitations of mobile phone microphones/speakers? I know a ringtone which fits this description, and it's been spreading around for a good month or so now - it's just a long "whizzing" noise. Maybe it's old age setting in, but I highly doubt a mobile phone is capable of outputting that kind of noise?

Sounds like this "secondary school teacher in Cardiff" is just a bit deaf, and the press are twisting the story into a "intellectual children come up with ingenious plot to misbehave in class" affair

Quantic · 25 May 2006 at 01:02

Frequency Sample

Who can hear it and ages please?

21 and I can! And it's horrible! Had to switch it off.

Andelusion · 25 May 2006 at 01:05

18, can hear it clear as day.

Mr Joshua · 25 May 2006 at 01:08

I'm 23 and can just about hear it with the volume turned up stupidly loud or maybe that's just the speakers

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Pajeh · 25 May 2006 at 01:09

19 seems quiet to me can hear it but its not really a horrible noise

Edit: turned sound up really high and it is awful.

Quantic · 25 May 2006 at 01:10

Pajeh said:
19 seems quiet to me can hear it but its not really a horrible noise

It makes me feel really uncomfortable. I must be part-chav!

needmorespeed · 25 May 2006 at 01:10

23 i can hear and that was though headphones that i didn't actually have on my head my hearing rocks

philio16 · 25 May 2006 at 01:10

20 and can just about hear it

(dont know if a smile is right....)

Creature · 25 May 2006 at 01:11

Clear as day to me, just sounds a bit wierd.

SoliD · 25 May 2006 at 01:12

can hear that sample easily, still life in my ears yet.

philio16 · 25 May 2006 at 01:12

Sounds like I've just left a club or something

nikebee · 25 May 2006 at 01:12

Quantic said:
Frequency Sample

Who can hear it and ages please?

21 and I can! And it's horrible! Had to switch it off.

using headphones here, couldn't here it at all unless it was at FULL volume (yeah... thats 11 fools

) and it damn near melted my brain...

at the level i normally have music at i couldn't hear it

edit:
tried it on my speakers, can hear it plain as hell on sub-regular settings...
must be my headphones :confused:

edit: again

i'm 20 btw

pyro · 25 May 2006 at 01:14

21, I can barely hear it. Mind you, I'v been listening to drumm shattering heavy metal since I was 12, I am not listening to psytrance but it's as loud.

Anyway, we should get a car and load it up with loudspeakers and blast this around town, then see the little ******s run around like crazy. Hell yeah

Shotgun_ned · 25 May 2006 at 01:14

19 here, couldn't hear it very well at normal volume but it was awful when I upped it

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pyro · 25 May 2006 at 01:16

Actually I kinda like it. You can put a nice beat on it too and make it a rave song