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

pirtybirdy · Post by **pirtybirdy** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:15 pm

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 · Post by **IRiSHMaFIA** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:20 pm

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 · Post by **pirtybirdy** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:10 pm

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 · Post by **IRiSHMaFIA** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:20 pm

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

pirtybirdy · Post by **pirtybirdy** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:41 am

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. ;-)

https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199119,00.html

IRiSHMaFIA · Post by **IRiSHMaFIA** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:17 am

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. ;-)

https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199119,00.html

I can't hear a bleedin thing

Post by **Skylace** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:29 am

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. ;-)

https://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.

Post by **faceless** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:47 am

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 · Post by **cat21** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:30 pm

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 · Post by **Ally** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:01 pm

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

girldorksrule · Post by **girldorksrule** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:11 am

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

Post by **eefanincan** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 3:19 am

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.

radiomanpj · Post by **radiomanpj** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:32 am

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 · Post by **Gasman59** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 9:30 am

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 !!!