Is Mosquito, the high-pitched alarm only under-25s can hear, a blessing or a bane? Jamie Merrill sounds it out
What would you do if the children playing outside the...
20/06/2013 - 9:33am
Scott Smith and his partner Andrea Riley suffered months of abuse from teenage vandals who damaged their cars and attacked their dog
Couple installed a 'mosquito alarm...
20/06/2013 - 9:14am
Sydney's STATE Rail is set to trial high-pitched Mosquito devices to drive young people away from graffiti hot spots.
The technology emits an irritating high-frequency...
19/06/2013 - 2:42pm
Securing Wombledon Airfield
And only a battery powered wireless system will do!
How do you secure an airfield in rural Yorkshire when the buildings...
04/04/2013 - 11:03am
The crumbling economy in the UK has caused an increase in the theft of lead and other expensive materials from church roofs and other heritage buildings across the UK...
06/09/2012 - 4:30pm
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22/02/2012 - 12:07pm
BT like many other utility companies are waging a daily battle against theft of copper. With 75 million miles of BT copper cable beneath our feet, this is a major...
01/02/2012 - 1:41pm
A church in Sale is fighting back after being targeted by metal thieves intent on stealing lead from its roof by turning high-tech.
St Anne's in the diocese of Chester...
24/01/2012 - 4:07pm
Compound Security Systems Ltd., manufacturers of probably the most stable external security systems in the UK are pleased to announce the formal adoption of their...
09/01/2012 - 10:55am
We are pleased to announce the launch of two new security devices this week to add to our growing range of GSM and GPRS security systems:
HX GSM PIR
HX GPRS PIR
We...
05/12/2011 - 5:17pm
Think you've got the laziest parenting story ever? Just wait. A city in Minnesota has so many parents ignoring their teenagers that they've invested in screech machines...
10/06/2011 - 2:46pm
PORTLAND, Oregon. - Mayor Sam Adams says the city's pilot program that plays classical music at a MAX stop has reduced police calls by 40 percent.
The city started the...
17/05/2011 - 9:00am
The requirement for fuel / oil tank security systems has never been as necessary as it is now. Over the last 18 months or so, the instances of fuel-oil and diesel...
06/05/2011 - 1:05pm
Theft from farms and other rural businesses has been on the increase over the last year, partly due to the state of the economy.
Securing farm entrances, buildings and...
07/04/2011 - 2:39pm
Compound Security Systems Ltd are pleased to announce our appointment as official UK importer of the NEW Mobeye GSM smoke detector.
The Mobeye GSM smoke detector is the...
05/04/2011 - 12:50pm
Compound Security Systems Ltd. have launched the eagerly awaited church / heritage security system (RDAS/CHSS-1). The purpose designed, wireless and fully ARC monitored...
04/04/2011 - 2:37pm
IT'S A PROBLEM: Jim Gibson, chairman of Chell Heath Residents' Association.
POLICE are using a device which disperses teenage gangs by emitting a high-pitched noise only...
26/01/2011 - 12:34pm
Whine, audible just to kids, may solve expensive problem
Robert Barron, Daily News
Published: Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Devices that emit highly irritating sounds that...
22/10/2010 - 11:24am
THE inventor of a device used to drive young yobs away from shops on Oxford's Blackbird Leys estate is now looking to test it in a second location.
Howard Stapleton said...
01/10/2010 - 12:32pm
The owners of the Gallery Place commercial strip have installed an anti-loitering noise device -- one to discourage any loiterers, not just teens. Gallery Place has...
01/09/2010 - 4:39pm
Gallery Place business owners met with District officials a few weeks ago to voice their concern that loitering teenagers who sometimes get into fights in one of the...
01/09/2010 - 4:31pm
Local business owners have found a solution to the problem of loitering teenagers -- an audio repellent called The Mosquito. The device emits a high-pitched sound that...
01/09/2010 - 4:23pm
By Dan Malouff - Arlington County transportation planner who blogs independently at BeyondDC.com. The Local Blog Network is a group of bloggers from around the D.C....
01/09/2010 - 4:19pm
We've spent the morning trying to figure that out.
Yesterday the Prince of Petworth posted some photos of a white, box-like contraption hanging at the top of the Metro...
31/08/2010 - 4:42pm
Teenagers who loiter at the Gallery Place Commercial Strip are being told to buzz off.
A noisemaker called "The Mosquito" is now mounted on the wall near the escalator...
31/08/2010 - 4:35pm
Compound Security Systems, manufacturers of innovative security products such as the controversial MOSQUITO Teen Deterrent have picked up the Firefly Safety product '...
23/08/2010 - 4:52pm
TRYING to stop young people from going to school is not something you would normally expect of teachers.
But staff at Wheatley Primary School and neighbouring John...
12/08/2010 - 10:02am
From Denis MacShane MP.
Sir, The headline over your report (June 26) on the Council of Europe's short debate on "Mosquito" machines, which emit a noise that disperses...
29/06/2010 - 12:32am
The UK government has rejected calls to ban a device that uses a high-pitched noise to disperse teenage gangs.
Police minister Nick Herbert said it was up to councils...
28/06/2010 - 12:26am
The Council of Europe this morning voted to ban the use and marketing of the Mosquito teen deterrent within Europe. 59 members voted in total out of the 489 current...
25/06/2010 - 10:42am
Mr Piotr WACH, the Polish member of the European Council will this week be calling for a ban on the use and marketing of the Mosquito device by the European Council PACE...
24/06/2010 - 10:34am
A youth service director has criticised the use of a mosquito device which emits a high pitched noise to disperse youngsters in Bradford.
Miriam Jackson, from the Youth...
01/03/2010 - 11:39am
More controversial mosquito devices – used to drive away youths terrorising neighbourhoods – could be put into action in Shipley after they won the Home Secretary's...
13/02/2010 - 3:52pm
Home Secretary Alan Johnson has rejected calls to ban a device which emits high-pitched noises designed to cause discomfort to young people. At question time on 8...
10/02/2010 - 4:07pm
A CONTROVERSIAL device that produces an annoying high-pitched noise to disperse youths has won the backing of the Home Secretary.
The Mosquito™, devised by Merthyr...
10/02/2010 - 3:52pm
A family's CCTV footage of how youths made them too scared to leave their homes is being shown to primary school children.
The family, who live in Blaby, installed...
08/12/2009 - 2:39pm
Moving Sound Technologies president Michael Gibson is pleased to announce that Miracle Recreation Products of Monett Missouri has acquired the exclusive rights to...
02/11/2009 - 7:32pm
The London Borough of Bexley has decided to empower Bexley Youth Council with the decision on the use of 'Mosquitoes' in the Borough - a noise emitting device, used to...
24/08/2009 - 1:04pm
The Mini Mosquito™ emits a high-pitched whine that only teenagers can hear. The idea is that this insistent hum drives packs of youths away from your property. This mini...
11/06/2009 - 11:05am
Jefferson High School administrators have a new way to get students to move along between classes rather than congregate in the hallway.
Annoy them.
In the past week,...
01/04/2009 - 3:49pm
I'm not talking about the biting, parasite-carrying bugs here. Rather, I'm talking about the device invented by Howard Stapleton a few years ago, designed to prevent...
22/03/2009 - 8:58pm
As theft at retail surges in bad economic times, retailers are warned to protect their assets. Security remains an ongoing concern for convenience store operators, but...
03/03/2009 - 11:39am
YOUNG people in Hardwicke are being forced to buzz-off due to a controversial new piece of equipment.
A Mosquito device has been installed in Westbourne Drive in a bid...
30/01/2009 - 1:55pm
GROUSE shooters look forward to the "Glorious Twelfth" – the day in October when their season opens.
Perhaps the child-loving people of Plymouth will come to refer to...
30/01/2009 - 1:50pm
The British inventor of a controversial device which disperses young people by emitting a high-pitched noise which only they can hear called Wednesday for legislation...
03/04/2008 - 2:30pm
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...
20/10/2007 - 12:34pm
UNRULY teenagers are making the lives of people in Berkeley a misery according to residents. Frustrated residents claim criminal damage, noise, speeding and underage...
17/10/2007 - 2:50pm
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...
10/10/2007 - 3:00pm
Richland County deputies have unveilved two new high-tech devices which they say should help to combat and reduce crime.
One is called the ShotSpotter, the other is...
10/10/2007 - 2:56pm
The mosquito device has been put up at the Willows Arts Centre in George Street
A TEENAGE repellent which hurts young people's ears so badly it forces them to flee for...
27/09/2007 - 2:43pm
A FUTURISTIC device which sends out an insufferably grating noise only audible to teenagers is coming to Reading.
The cunning little gadget, called the Mosquito, is...
27/09/2007 - 2:39pm
A MOSQUITO alarm which deters teenagers by emitting a high-pitched noise is to be installed outside a Trowbridge community centre.
The alarm is being brought in for a...
24/05/2007 - 8:55pm
For years the hooded youths of Britain have been free to roam the country’s shopping streets. In the evenings and at the weekends they have loitered outside the shops of...
22/04/2007 - 2:35pm
THE GIZMO: MosquitoTone ringtones.NOW HEAR THIS: Who knew a high-pitched, hard-to-hear tone dubbed the Mosquito could cause such buzz?
In Britain, products emitting the...
18/04/2007 - 2:03pm
A mosquito ringtone is generally audible to teens only and most adults can't hear it.
Aubraux has introduced world's first musical mosquito ringtone on their website at...
12/04/2007 - 3:05pm
The chances are that if you are over 20, you will never have heard of it.
But if you are a teenager in the habit of hanging around causing trouble, it could well have...
15/02/2007 - 4:38pm
BESIEGED by young yobs, a Park North shopkeeper has installed a high-pitched alarm to drive off louts.
But just a day after Welcombe Stores in Park North installed the...
20/12/2006 - 1:55pm
It seems as if businesses have tried everything to rid themselves of pesky teenage loiterers--the ones who use foul language, constantly bum cigarettes, shoplift, and...
24/11/2006 - 1:52pm
COCKERMOUTH youngsters will be driven away from gathering outside Sainsbury’s supermarket by a sounds device that only they can hear.
Used by police, the Mosquito...
24/11/2006 - 1:49pm
EALING Council are using "mosquitos" to stop anti-social behaviour in the borough.
Mosquitos are ultra-sonic devices which emits a high-pitched tone that can only be...
25/10/2006 - 1:43pm
And the winners are...
We warned you last week that the annual Ig Nobel Prizes were about to be awarded in Cambridge, Mass., honoring -- or dishonoring -- some of the...
08/10/2006 - 12:00am
IT IS a device with a variety of practical applications: an ingenious gadget that disperses gangs of loitering teenagers by emitting a piercing shriek only they can hear...
07/10/2006 - 2:57pm
It's not the accolade scientists will most likely put down on their CV. But Thursday evening 1,200 people filled Harvard University's historic Sanders Theater, some to...
07/10/2006 - 1:39pm
This was a great week in Nobel Prize world for the U.S., but in the IgNobel Prize world, one which lampoons the Nobel Prizes, one of the winners was something we had...
07/10/2006 - 1:32pm
The Ig Nobel Prize - not to be confused with its more serious counterpart, the Nobel Prize, awarded in Sweden each year - acknowledges unusual, dubious and sometimes...
06/10/2006 - 1:27pm
Why it's a top app: A mobile phone craze that started in the U.K. and quickly spread to the U.S. A ringtone that became ubiquitous almost overnight. A memorable brand...
28/09/2006 - 2:44pm
A tiny Welsh company whose high-pitched alarm for repelling yobs spawned a mobile ringtone teachers couldn't hear is set to hit the big time by selling an official...
14/06/2006 - 4:15pm
A small Valleys firm hopes its high-pitched alarm originally meant to repel youngsters from shops could become the latest teen ringtone craze.
Merthyr Tydfil-based...
14/06/2006 - 4:13pm
Whippersnappers 1, baby boomers 0.
That's the score in a generational match of wits that has left adults technologically outsmarted by an invention created to ward off...
14/06/2006 - 1:44pm
There's a new cell phone ring tone that's hot with kids. If you're an adult, you probably haven't heard it.
It's called the "mosquito," a super-high-pitched buzz...
14/06/2006 - 1:15pm
It sounds like science fiction, but apparently it's the latest buzz among teens -- literally. A cell-phone ring that adults can't hear.
An invention, known as the...
14/06/2006 - 1:09pm
Enterprising teenagers have hijacked a high-pitched electronic blip which adults cannot hear and turned it into a stealth ringtone.
It is suitable for use in situations...
14/06/2006 - 1:03pm
Horndean Parish Council is thinking about bringing in a high-pitched device to help disperse gangs of youngsters hanging around the streets.
The Mosquito, or Chavbuster...
07/06/2006 - 4:05pm
Compound Security Systems, I salute you. First you create an electronic version of OFF! that lets businesses repel teens. Then you find a way to sell it to the teens...
27/05/2006 - 3:58pm
The war between teens and authority figures has a new -- or old -- front: ears. British shopkeepers tired of teenage loiterers have turned to the Mosquito teen repellent...
26/05/2006 - 4:01pm
High-pitched noise lets teens monitor calls in class
An alarm designed to clear teenaged gangs out of shopping centres has been sampled by teenagers so they can hear...
25/05/2006 - 3:52pm
Teen Buzz is a ringtone that takes advantage of a high-frequency sound that grown-ups can't hear. If adults can't hear your phone ring, text-messaging becomes possible...
25/05/2006 - 3:23pm
A yob-busting alarm using ultra high sound to drive teenage thugs from shopping centres has been hijacked to create inaudible classroom ringtones, it emerged today....
24/05/2006 - 3:54pm
The mosquito alarm is usually effective in driving away youths from shops by emitting a high pitch sound that is mostly audible to those under 20. The obvious benefit...
24/05/2006 - 3:49pm
An alarm from British firm Compund Security Systems using ultra high sound to drive teenage thugs from shopping centres has been hijacked to create inaudible classroom...
24/05/2006 - 3:41pm
TECHNOLOGY designed to deter unruly teenagers has been hijacked and is now being used by them to their benefit in the classroom.The high-pitched sound emitted by the...
23/05/2006 - 3:32pm
MOSQUITOS are to be sent into Tandridge to put an end to antisocial behaviour in the district.
The Mosquito is a new hitech machine that has been proven to force...
18/05/2006 - 3:18pm
'Mosquito' noise repels teens at pizza parlour
Forget asbos, the latest weapon against antisocial youths is the Mosquito.
The Sonic Teenager Deterrent - nicknamed the...
17/05/2006 - 3:22pm
Security systems manufacturer Cooper-Meniver has signed a global deal to manufacture and distribute the Mosquito security system, a gadget that gives youths hanging...
15/05/2006 - 12:00am
A Welsh business which developed an ultrasonic device to deter nuisance gangs of youths has won a multi-million pound deal in its first year.
An American company is to...
14/05/2006 - 3:05pm
An electronic device known as the Mosquito is being used by police to help disperse groups of anti-social youths in the Tandridge area of Surrey.
The small box emits...
14/05/2006 - 1:14pm
Police in the Staffordshire Moorlands have been using their lates weapon in the fight against anti-social behaviour.
The Mosquito device - which emits a high-ptched...
12/05/2006 - 3:09pm
More West communities fed up with anti-social behaviour from teenage yobs are signing up to use a controversial crime prevention device. Councillors and police officers...
09/05/2006 - 11:25am
YOBS in Chorley have met their match - in the form of a high-tech mosquito.
A businessman, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, said he had been driven to...
20/04/2006 - 1:51pm
IF MARK WAINFUR pulls up the hood on his sweat top he will be breaking the law.
This extraordinary fact emerged yesterday when magistrates finally got tough on hoodies....
12/04/2006 - 1:20pm
Rotherham has become the first town in South Yorkshire to use a Mosquito™ to tackle the problem of anti-social behaviour - and with amazing success.
But this Mosquito...
07/04/2006 - 10:00am
THEATRE bosses have used a hi-tech whistle to drive away teenage yobs.
The Mosquito device, which emits a high-pitched whistle that has the same effect as an irritating...
06/04/2006 - 11:34am
A Controversial device that scares off teenage yobs with a high-pitched squeal only they can hear has been hailed a phenomenal success by West police. Officers in...
03/04/2006 - 10:55am
TEENAGERS who loiter outside shops are being scared out of earshot by a new yob deterrent device tested at a shopping precinct in Northampton.
The Mosquito, which was...
22/03/2006 - 4:09pm
A NEW security system - hailed as the solution to anti-social gangs - is being tried out in Ascot.
The Mosquito system sets off a high frequency sound at 85 decibels -...
16/03/2006 - 4:56pm
A gadget which emits a high frequency noise audible only to young people could be the latest weapon in the fight against anti-social behaviour in Hertsmere.
The Mosquito...
09/03/2006 - 3:27pm
What is the mosquito? Launched on the commercial market a few weeks ago, the Mosquito is a small black box that emits an electronic noise so annoying to the ears of...
22/02/2006 - 3:14pm
Its screech is so repellent to surly teenage gangs it makes them flee in horror. But forget ASBOs, the latest invention designed to reign in the youth is the Sonic...
17/02/2006 - 12:58pm
FORGET your ASBOs and dispersal orders - cunning technology may be the way to end the scourge of anti-social youths and rowdy teenagers.
A device that sends out a high-...
16/02/2006 - 3:13pm
