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Title: Can you hear this? Post by: Raito on June 12, 2006, 04:52:50 PM http://geekpress.com/2006/05/some-savvy-teenagers-are-using-high.html
This technology, aka Mosquito, can only be heard by teenagers because adults lose the ability to hear high-frequency pitches. I sure couldn't hear the second clip. But I could hear a faint buzzing in the first clip(sounds like a darn mosquito, all right!). Title: Re: Can you hear this? Post by: lazygamer on June 12, 2006, 07:58:59 PM I couldn't hear the 2nd clip without turning up my speaker alot. I can't hear the buzzing in the 1st clip. Dammit I'm 21 and have taken good care of my hearing. :annoyed:
Interestingly enough, these teenagers are unintentionally being courteous by having a ringtone that doesn't disturb adults. Title: Re: Can you hear this? Post by: Corsair5 on June 13, 2006, 11:59:16 AM Sounds irritating. Can you imagine losing the ability to hear your ringtone suddenly?
Title: Re: Can you hear this? Post by: Swift on June 13, 2006, 01:37:37 PM I can't hear the first one but the second one's pretty clear.
Title: Re: Can you hear this? Post by: Raito on June 16, 2006, 02:32:01 PM Hmmm, looks like some adults CAN hear it after all! :D
Title: Re: Can you hear this? Post by: Reish Vedaur on June 16, 2006, 04:58:41 PM I can hear them both fine.
On a related note, I can also hear the electronic high-pitch tones from computers and TV sets, so when I pass by a room that has a TV with no sound coming off it and no image on the screen, I can still tell it's on. Title: Re: Can you hear this? Post by: Outchanter on June 16, 2006, 06:26:05 PM I don't hear them so much as 'feel' them, same as no-signal computer screens. Irritating after a while. I don't really remember 'hearing' computer screens any more clearly when I was younger though :blink: maybe the change is too gradual...
Title: Re: Can you hear this? Post by: Striker on June 23, 2006, 04:55:32 AM I can hear them both fine. On a related note, I can also hear the electronic high-pitch tones from computers and TV sets, so when I pass by a room that has a TV with no sound coming off it and no image on the screen, I can still tell it's on. I'm actually extremely sensitive to high frequency sound and the same thing can be said about me. I remember once biking past a house and realizing that a TV was on inside even though I couldn't hear anything else. Both files here were loud and clear for me... especially the 2nd one... ow... *rubs ears* I also noticed this doesn't have a lot to do with youth... I knew lots of kids who couldn't hear the same noises I could. Title: Re: Can you hear this? Post by: Silverbolt on June 23, 2006, 06:34:40 AM I can hear both of them, and I have the same thing that Striker talked about. (I'm 18)
I can tell when a TV is running even if I'm not in the room. Sometimes, I even pick up an annoying one-second high pitch signal from it too. Title: Re: Can you hear this? Post by: Raito on June 24, 2006, 04:41:11 PM Yeah, actually many times I can hear sounds from the tv in the neighbour's apartment(just next to mine) and often, even what they're speaking on the programme too!
Title: Re: Can you hear this? Post by: Silverbolt on June 24, 2006, 09:40:18 PM Not sounds from the TV, I mean, the actual high frequency signal that a TV emmits, no matter what the volume.
Title: Re: Can you hear this? Post by: Striker on June 24, 2006, 11:12:00 PM Yeah, some people just don't get it, especially if they don't have it. :dry:
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