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Back to school - with the phone call your teacher can't hear
Students have always tried to best their teachers in the small-scale warfare that is school, and now they have biology and technology on their side - at least where mobile phones are concerned. The psycho ringtone has arrived in Austria.
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Mosquito device considered to tackle rowdy youths
AN ULTRASONIC device that deters teenagers with a high-pitched noise is being considered for a site in Yate plagued with anti-social behaviour.
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One Device Tracks Gunshots; Another Stops Teens from Loitering
Richland County deputies have unveilved two new high-tech devices which they say should help to combat and reduce crime.
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Latest bid to fight bad behaviour
The Richland County Sheriff’s Department is putting two pieces of technology in the field to detect gunshots and disperse young loiterers without the presence of deputies.
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Latest bid to fight bad behaviour
UNRULY teenagers are making the lives of people in Berkeley a misery according to residents. Frustrated residents claim criminal damage, noise, speeding and underage drinking are all becoming a common scene late at night in Berkeley town centre. The public toilets on Marybrook Street are also believed to be used for suspected drug abuse and sex acts.
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'Mosquito' deserves try
A recent letter writer was correct with his statement that the Mosquito ultrasonic teen repellent operates at 80 to 90 dB and emits a frequency of 18 kHz. This was an obvious miscommunication.
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Town turns to a teenage repellent
The mosquito device has been put up at the Willows Arts Centre in George Street
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KFC & The Mosquito

So now that I’m close friends with the Colonel, he’s looped me in to all their advertising techniques. Today, KFC launches a television commercial utilizing the “mosquito tone” that only those young whipper snappers can hear.

Anyone 20ish or younger care to verify that the sound is present?


Author Dave Zatz
Publication Engadget
Date 11 April 2007
Link www.zatznotfunny.com

 

 

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