High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...

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High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...

Posted: 6/12/06 at 11:49pm

Have any of you seen (or rather, heard) this? It's a ring tone being developed for cell phones. Apparently as you get older (about 30) you lose the ability to hear it.

http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3

I could hear it, but my dad couldn't. Hm.
Beware: If you can't take extremely high pitched and annoying noises- this isn't for you.

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Updated On: 6/13/06 at 11:49 PM

#2

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:20am

Jason Robert Brown made a great joke about this tonight at Birdland. Apparently a friend sent it to him and he could hear it, and he asked his wife to come over and listen and she said, "What sound?"

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:22am

this was all over the news tonight. it made my ears ring for ever. hopefully soon I'll be old enough to not hear it.

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:24am

Yikes!

Good to know my ears are still young.

Surprised this is on the news now. The BBC did a story on it over a month ago, I think.

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#5

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:24am

Yeah, I heard it on NPR.

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:25am

I'm several years over the age limit and I heard it just fine. What does that mean?

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:28am

Ooh, er. I'm 32, and I only heard something when I turned my speakers all the way up. Did I accidentally just drive my younger neighbors crazy?

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:34am

I heard it, hmm I will have to ask my family now

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#9

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:42am

Well my dad is 51, and he couldn't hear it. My mom, on the other hand, is 42, and could sort of hear it.
So I guess it really depends on the person.

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Updated On: 6/13/06 at 12:42 AM

#10

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:50am

I asked my mom if she could hear it -- she couldn't. (She's in her mid-50s.) I wasn't even going to bother with my dad, who is in denial.

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#11

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:57am

It totally depends on the person. (They said that on the news report I saw, as well.) I could hear it, and MAN, was it annoying. Youch!

#12

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:59am

I could hear it, but it wasn't really loud and at first I thought it was just my laptop's hum. Then again, hearing loss runs in my family.

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#13

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 1:25am

My brother and I heard the noise (My brother's exact words: "What is that noise?! I feel like my ears were going to explode.") My 50-year-old mother also heard it with the volume only a little bit up (but she could also hear a dog whistle when she was younger).

Mariel

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:06am

Say what?

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:11am

I heard it loud and clear and annoying.

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 6:20am

43 here and I could hear it no problem.

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#17

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 7:00am

In my 50s, and I heard it.

#18

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:49am

I may have heard it (and I am def over 30).....of course I turned it all the way up. Is that cheating?

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:50am

Why would I try to hear annoying high pitched buzzing? :P

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#20

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:52am

It's a ring tone Rath. Apparently the youngin's are using it to take calls in class behind the teachers back.

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:54am

rath, I suppose it could be considerted proof we're under 30?

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:58am

I know it's a ring tone. But apparently people here are going to a site to listen to it. Even though they know it's annoying and high pitched.

I'm all for it if I can't hear it and it's a cell phone ring.

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#23

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 10:08am

Over 50 and can't hear it even with the volume turned up to max.

It wouldn't work for my students, though because even if I can't hear the ring, I would certainly notice them answering the phone.

#24

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 10:09am

What?

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#25

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Posted: 6/13/06 at 10:09am

I suspect that they text.