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In an effort to get around having to turn their phones off in environments where cellphones are forbidden, these crazy kids have come up with the incredible: a ring tone that can’t be heard by most adults.
Per the New York Times:
In settings where cellphone use is forbidden — in class, for example — it is perfect for signaling the arrival of a text message without being detected by an elder of the species.
“When I heard about it I didn’t believe it at first,” said Donna Lewis, a technology teacher at the Trinity School in Manhattan. “But one of the kids gave me a copy, and I sent it to a colleague. She played it for her first graders. All of them could hear it, and neither she nor I could.”
The technology, which relies on the fact that most adults gradually lose the ability to hear high-pitched sounds, was developed in Britain but has only recently spread to America — by Internet, of course.
Wanna see if you can hear this thing?
Did you hear it? Happily, I could.
If you didn’t, go somewhere and get your old ass a hearing aid*, ’cause that shit was fairly loud.
*FYI, they make some pretty discreet hearing aids these days. This one’s practically invisible. (On a white ear, anyway.)
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>That was loud to me. But pretty cool. I like the ideal…but kids are to techno savy for me. I think they need to spend more time with their heads in a book. LOL
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>Damned kids. I was recently asked at work if I wanted a flashy new PDA phone with Pocket Windows on it. I told my boss, "I'm trying to be in less communication, not more. Thanks, anyway." If it weren't such a requirement today, I wouldn't even own a cell phone.
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>and to think, multi-billionaire warren buffett doesn't even have a cell phone. hmmmm, wonder why?
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