If only life were like this, I think people would smile more… 
There is a curse word right before it ends (at 3:40) if you want to stop it early or sensor it.
Can you hear me now?
The following is about a new ‘teen repeller’ that it is out on the market. While it’s a funny concept, the article states that most mature adults are unable to hear the sound although it is clearly audible and, according to reports, highly annoying to most teenagers and children.
Why can I hear it? I thought I was mature. There goes that notion. So…Can you hear it? 🙂
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The Mosquito is a device that creates a high-pitched noise like an amplified version of its namesake. Inventor and security expert Howard Stapleton created the device, a 9-inch black box which creates an 80-decibel pulsing frequency with an effective range of 15-20 meters. The device is intended to prevent youth from congregating around convenience stores and other places where loitering has been problematic.
Can you hear the buzz? Give it a listen or download as a ringtone.
Most mature adults are unable to hear the sound although it is clearly audible and, according to reports, highly annoying to most teenagers and children. Ingenious teens have since turned the ultrasonic sound to their advantage, by creating a ringtone that can alert them to text messages undetectably to adults — including teachers and parents. The ringtone version of the mosquito has been called “Teen Buzz.”
When the Mosquito teen repeller was tested at a convenience store in South Wales, here’s how one teen described the sound: “It’s loud and squeaky and it just goes through you.” According to an article on News.com, teenagers, with their fingers in their ears, repeatedly begged the store owner to turn off the device. Adults, on the other hand, were said to carry on shopping, completely oblivious to the noise.
CompoundSecurity.co.uk, which markets the Mosquito, claims that the sound is not bothersome immediately (so that teenagers should have time to make a purchase normally) and that, because the sound is stronger the closer one gets and does not effectively pass though barriers, it should not bother neighbors. Stapleton has considered creating a louder version of the Mosquito for emergency situations, such as when gangs of teenagers converge on a store to shoplift as a group.
The Mosquito won the Ig Nobel award (a less serious version of the Nobels) for Peace in 2006.
Why buy expensive toys?
Or a shredder for that matter? 🙂 Happy weekend!!!
I wondered where they all ‘went’
I don’t know if any of you follow the Westminster Dog Show. I’m a dog lover, but don’t really care about the show. These pictures, however, are super fun! There are some pretty (and pretty ugly) dogs among the ranks. Check ’em out!
And for those of you (like me) who wonder thing such as where all the dogs go, I found this amusing.
The caption says: Men wait for their dogs to use an area in the basement of the Hotel Pennsylvania filled with wood chips and fire hydrants in New York February 9, 2008, at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters).
Click on the picture to see the other photoblog pictures from MSNBC. Some of the pictures are fabulous-o.
Happy Thursday!
