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[MagicJackBauer]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060612/ap_on_sc/nyc_youth_ring_tone_3

This is pretty wild. Anyone know where to get the tone?

 

[DarienA]

http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3

I hear a high pitched whine similar to the sound I hear when a TV is muted but "on" in a house with no other sounds.


EDIT:

:lol @ Darien acting like he can hear it.

Not at all I simply saw the link and posted it here, I have no idea what it's suppose to sound like, and as an "adult" I'm sure I don't hear it, and with my current ear infection I'm sure that's not helping matters.


Actually since the article says:

As people age, many develop what's known as aging ear -- a loss of the ability to hear higher-frequency sounds.

I guess I am hearing it... WOOHOOO I DON'T HAVE OLD MAN EARS YET!!!!!

 

[DMczaf]

:lol @ Darien acting like he can hear it.

 

[Bloodwake]

That's fricking awesome

 

[DMczaf]

I guess I am hearing it... WOOHOOO I DON'T HAVE OLD MAN EARS YET!!!!!

Damn it!

Well, us young people still have skateboarding!

 

[Stormbringer]

Yahoo ! I can ear it ! I'm young ! Young !!

 

[Vark]

sounds like what i'd imagine a dog whistle to sound like.

 

[iceDragon7]

TURN IT UP!!!!

(That acctually hurt my ears =/

"Oww My freakin' ears!"

 

[Tamanon]

Oh that crap would piss me off to no end, never mind any dogs nearby. I hate that annoying eeeeeee sound.

 

[wasting]

i'll try this tonight on my parents

 

[DarienA]

Damn it!

Well, us young people still have skateboarding!

Definitely I'm not going ANYWHERE near a skateboard anytime soon. Though they do have a skateboard park at my timeshare resort... nyah... now go karts... that's another story, their building a go kart track at the resort... man that's gonna be fun... "daddy that old man keeps knocking all the little kids out of the way! BWAHAHHAHAHHAHA get outta the way you little shits!!!!! I paid my timeshare dues for the year!"

 

[Xrenity]

I can hear it.

AND FEEL IT. It goes right through my body.

 

[NotWii]

I CAN HEAR IT!

 

[Cauliflower of Love]

My folks hear it (mp3 posted by darien) 55ish.

heh.

 

[TheOMan]

I just tried it here in the office and *everybody* could hear it. It actually hurt my ears (and strangely enough my eyes :/ I seem to be developing a headache because of it. Lame.)

 

[DMczaf]

Definitely I'm not going ANYWHERE near a skateboard anytime soon. Though they do have a skateboard park at my timeshare resort... nyah... now go karts... that's another story, their building a go kart track at the resort... man that's gonna be fun... "daddy that old man keeps knocking all the little kids out of the way! BWAHAHHAHAHHAHA get outta the way you little shits!!!!! I paid my timeshare dues for the year!"

:lol You're going to be that old ass dude in the neighborhood who keeps little kids' basketballs and footballs if they fall into your yard, arent you?

 

[Mason]

That sounds like what someone else said, when everything in the house is quiet and the TV is on but it's muted.

I bet this is all a big prank and the kids are like "Oh we can hear it" while they're playing silence and the adults are like "WTF?"

 

[DarienA]

:lol You're going to be that old ass dude in the neighborhood who keeps little kids' basketballs and footballs if they fall into your yard, arent you?

Going to? Dood I already do that, I noticed yesterday the kid 2 doors up had kicked his ball in to my backyard, he never came and knocked on the door to ask for it so it looks like I've got a new ball! Now I just need to get a big dog in the backyard a la Sandlot and I'll be good to go!

 

[Nerevar]

I heard it on the radio last week. IIRC, most people can hear it into their 40s. It's not until they get older that they can't hear it. It's not going to work with most "young" teachers.

 

[DMczaf]

Going to? Dood I already do that, I noticed yesterday the kid 2 doors up had kicked his ball in to my backyard, he never came and knocked on the door to ask for it so it looks like I've got a new ball! Now I just need to get a big dog in the backyard a la Sandlot and I'll be good to go!

But do you have old stories about famous people you met yet? Thats the key to being "That old dude..." in the neighborhood.

 

[Sh0k]

Shit .... I played the ringtone in my office and everybody was like what the hell was that sound, except me :*(

 

[Baker]

I just tried it here in the office and *everybody* could hear it. It actually hurt my ears (and strangely enough my eyes :/ I seem to be developing a headache because of it. Lame.)

Same here. The goddamn thing hurt my skull.

32 is the highest age we have back here, and everyone could hear it.

 

[DarienA]

But do you have old stories about famous people you met yet? Thats the key to being "That old dude..." in the neighborhood.

Well I did get James Earl Jones autograph YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAARRRRRRSSSSSS ago when I went to see him in the play Fences in NYC.... I mean that was like 400 lifetimes ago... oh wait I saw Colin Powell in downtown DC this year... then again any young kids in my neighorhood are gonna be like... Colin who?

I heard it on the radio last week. IIRC, most people can hear it into their 40s. It's not until they get older that they can't hear it. It's not going to work with most "young" teachers.

Especially not any you want to sleep with!

 

[PjotrStroganov]

I heard it on the radio last week. IIRC, most people can hear it into their 40s. It's not until they get older that they can't hear it. It's not going to work with most "young" teachers.

Say that to the kids who play music too loud through their headphones.





Bwahaha.

 

[mrmyth]

This was on NPR two weeks ago. They had the guy who invented the teen repeller and his daughter on. Even they acknowledged that most under 40 can hear it. Ironically enough, this is the first frequency to go if you went to a lot of concerts early on.
When they played the tone, I could tell who in traffic was listening to NPR because they all braked at the same time.

 

[TheOMan]

Same here. The goddamn thing hurt my skull.

32 is the highest age we have back here, and everyone could hear it.

I think we just got owned

Edit: Oh yeah, I guess that reference won't be funny as I was probably 1 of 5 people that actually watched the show .

 

[BuG]

Whoever works in an office environment and has access to other peoples computers while they're not around, can you please change all of their Windows sounds to this file.

 

[Aizu_Itsuko]

****.

That DID hurt.

Ok, people make sure the volume is low before you listen to this thing.


I'm not joking.

 

[Mashing]

My brother showed this to me the other night. I heard it just fine, then again I'm only 28 and I have partial hearing loss so my other ear is more acute than normal. I'm also one of these people who can hear when a TV is on but nothing is on screen.

 

[Baker]

Whoever works in an office environment and has access to other peoples computers while they're not around, can you please change all of their Windows sounds to this file.

We changed our tortoisesvn error sound to this, but seriously the "BLLLOOOOOOOOEEEEE" was more tolerable than the high pitch whining.

 

[Cheebs]

Ugh. It made my brain explode it felt like and now I have a headache.

 

[DarienA]

I think we just got owned

Edit: Oh yeah, I guess that reference won't be funny as I was probably 1 of 5 people that actually watched the show .

OMG I JUST got this reference and I actually use to WATCH the show!

 

[MrPing1000]

It sounds like a thousand nails being dragged across a black board. Awful


...or not just played it again, just a high pitched noise that hurts my ears hurrah!

my dad (48) can't hear it

 

[jamesinclair]

I think we just got owned

Edit: Oh yeah, I guess that reference won't be funny as I was probably 1 of 5 people that actually watched the show .

I got it. Great show.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

What's the point? Why not just use the vibrate feature?

Edit: How can anyone not hear that?

 

[Mashing]

Isn't this frequency pretty damn close to the frequency used for torture? I imagine if you played this continously for a long period of time it'd **** you up pretty bad. Like whathisface did on season 4 of 24.

 

[Slo]

Oh my God, that sound makes my freakin' teeth hurt.

 

[Cheebs]

Edit: How can anyone not hear that?

You don't get the concept of frequency do you?

 

[Timedog]

Guys, it's possible that some of you may not be hearing it because of crappy playback systems that won't play frequencies that high. If that's not the case then some of you have some pretty extreme hearing loss because that's pretty dang audible.

 

[teiresias]

I can hear this particular tone, no idea what the frequency of it is though. However, I cannot hear a transducer here at work vibrating at approximately 17khz with a 5V amplitude input wave, when one of the co-op graduate students can and he's only four years younger than me. I lose the tone at about 14.5khz, though if they up the amplitude of the input wave to 10V I can hear it just faintly at 15khz.

 

[Lord Error]

That sound is absolutely horrible and unnerving. Like a broken CRT TV only worse.

Also, some older people can hear that no problem, it's not a universal cutoff. Some guys in my office, some older, some younger than me, can't hear it.

One thing I have problem believeing though is that any cellphone can reproduce that sound through their crappy speakers?

 

[Mashing]

The story says it's 17kHz.

 

[Darko]

jesus, try listening to that for more then a minute... f-ing toture

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

This was on NPR two weeks ago. They had the guy who invented the teen repeller and his daughter on. Even they acknowledged that most under 40 can hear it. Ironically enough, this is the first frequency to go if you went to a lot of concerts early on.
When they played the tone, I could tell who in traffic was listening to NPR because they all braked at the same time.

:lol that's pretty funny.

 

[Timedog]

The story says it's 17kHz.

that mp3 is resonating at 15khz, with some distortions in lower frequencies that are much lower in amplitude.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

You don't get the concept of frequency do you?

I have to being that I deal w/ them all day here at work!

Your point?

 

[jarosh]

peak is 14923 hz

 

[Aurora]

I can hear it.

 

[drohne]

i thought i could hear it...but i kept hearing it after i stopped the mp3

 

[UtadaBarkley]

WOOOOHHOOOO. I CAN HEAR IT!!!!