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Hate Teens? Use High Pitched sounds to dispel youth.
Published Monday, June 12, 2006 by Jeremiah Owyang.
Get rid of those pesky teens.
The high pitched noise is being used as a ring tone for students in class as adults can't hear those high pitched noises. I always knew when my parents were watching TV as a kid, as I could hear the TV on, even volume was at mute.
Paul's posted a link to an example MP3 if you want to hear it. Or access the high pitched MP3 --can you hear it? Being in my early 30s, I can clearly hear it.
Web Strategy: Here's a potential application: If you're a web marketer and really want site segmentation, apply this high pitched sounds to websites you DON'T want pesky teens wasting your valuable bandwidth. (I'm kidding)
Now, if you've got a teen infestation, you can use this same technology against them, reports
Compound Security is selling this as a product to get rid of teens. (link from ringtonia)
The Mosquito ultrasonic teenage deterrent is the solution to the eternal problem of unwanted gatherings of youths and teenagers in shopping malls and around shops. The presence of these teenagers discourages genuine shoppers and customers’ from coming into your shop, affecting your turnover and profits. Anti social behaviour has become the biggest threat to private property over the last decade and there has been no effective deterrent until now.
Is there such a sound that can get rid of adults? oh yeah, it's Lil Jon --krumpin.
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Hate Teens? Use High Pitched sounds to dispel youth.
Published Monday, June 12, 2006 by Jeremiah Owyang.
Get rid of those pesky teens.
The high pitched noise is being used as a ring tone for students in class as adults can't hear those high pitched noises. I always knew when my parents were watching TV as a kid, as I could hear the TV on, even volume was at mute.
Paul's posted a link to an example MP3 if you want to hear it. Or access the high pitched MP3 --can you hear it? Being in my early 30s, I can clearly hear it.
Web Strategy: Here's a potential application: If you're a web marketer and really want site segmentation, apply this high pitched sounds to websites you DON'T want pesky teens wasting your valuable bandwidth. (I'm kidding)
Now, if you've got a teen infestation, you can use this same technology against them, reports
Compound Security is selling this as a product to get rid of teens. (link from ringtonia)
The Mosquito ultrasonic teenage deterrent is the solution to the eternal problem of unwanted gatherings of youths and teenagers in shopping malls and around shops. The presence of these teenagers discourages genuine shoppers and customers’ from coming into your shop, affecting your turnover and profits. Anti social behaviour has become the biggest threat to private property over the last decade and there has been no effective deterrent until now.
Is there such a sound that can get rid of adults? oh yeah, it's Lil Jon --krumpin.
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posted by Ross at 8:34 pm
2 Comments:
June 06, 2006
What?
Update: I've added files up to 25,000 Hz.
So maybe you've heard about this story, maybe not.
Here's the 10-second version:
Most humans are born with the ability to hear frequencies from about 20 Hz (low) up to 20,000 Hz (high) but that range shrinks as we get older. A guy in England figured that meant kids can hear things adults can't - specifically, very high frequencies. He created a device that pulses an annoying tone at about 15,000 Hz with the idea that when the device is used, it will repel kids while being unnoticed by adult. Perfect for solving that youth-loitering problem you've been having in front of your shop.
Okay, so that was, like, 15 seconds. I owe you five.
Steve posted links to two samples of the device. He could only hear the sound in one of the samples. I too could only hear the sound in one of the files.
Sample 1
Sample 2
Being the skeptic that I am, I smelled a rat. Did the sound even exist in the other one? Time to open my spectral analyzer to find out.
Damn, there it is. That big peak just above 15,000 Hz.
I lowered the pitch just a tad, and started to hear it.
Sample 1, slowed down
I then wondered where my frequency threshold was, so I made a few sample tones.
10,000 Hz
11,000 Hz
12,000 Hz
13,000 Hz
14,000 Hz
15,000 Hz
16,000 Hz
17,000 Hz
18,000 Hz
19,000 Hz
20,000 Hz
21,000 Hz
22,000 Hz
23,000 Hz
24,000 Hz
25,000 Hz
Mine's at about 15,000 Hz.
Comments
mike
i love steves website and well now i dontthanks to that horrible prank he pulled onus im not sure ill ever hear again
Horace
This is great to check the ages of people I work with. Good site.
Sean
Interesting, but you didn't filter out the harmonics....
Alex
This is great, im 31 and i could hear it with no problem i would'nt use this to get rid of people i would use this as a prank i agree with all the kids saying this is discriminatio, but if you know were i could download it i would appriciate ty
jake
I can hear 16,000 quite clearly and I'm a 36 year old male.
just for your records there.
Jay
I'm a month shy of 49 and can her 17,000 very clearly - 'course my wife complains that the smallest sound wakes me up. Amazing I got any sleep as a teenager.
yuri
Im 20 and i can barely hear the 17000
But I kill ears with loud music all the time so maybe thats why...
thanks ochenk that was cool
Thom
Not sure if this counts, when I listen to the 22,000 I instantly get a ringing in my ears that stops the moment the file ends. I am 20 myself, and have always considered myself extra-sensitive.
Ashley
I'm 22 and I had no problem hearing them. Although it seems as if my ears wont be the same after this.
Heidi
I just turned 35 and can hear all of them except for 22,000 hz.
June 06, 2006
What?
Update: I've added files up to 25,000 Hz.
So maybe you've heard about this story, maybe not.
Here's the 10-second version:
Most humans are born with the ability to hear frequencies from about 20 Hz (low) up to 20,000 Hz (high) but that range shrinks as we get older. A guy in England figured that meant kids can hear things adults can't - specifically, very high frequencies. He created a device that pulses an annoying tone at about 15,000 Hz with the idea that when the device is used, it will repel kids while being unnoticed by adult. Perfect for solving that youth-loitering problem you've been having in front of your shop.
Okay, so that was, like, 15 seconds. I owe you five.
Steve posted links to two samples of the device. He could only hear the sound in one of the samples. I too could only hear the sound in one of the files.
Sample 1
Sample 2
Being the skeptic that I am, I smelled a rat. Did the sound even exist in the other one? Time to open my spectral analyzer to find out.
Damn, there it is. That big peak just above 15,000 Hz.
I lowered the pitch just a tad, and started to hear it.
Sample 1, slowed down
I then wondered where my frequency threshold was, so I made a few sample tones.
10,000 Hz
11,000 Hz
12,000 Hz
13,000 Hz
14,000 Hz
15,000 Hz
16,000 Hz
17,000 Hz
18,000 Hz
19,000 Hz
20,000 Hz
21,000 Hz
22,000 Hz
23,000 Hz
24,000 Hz
25,000 Hz
Mine's at about 15,000 Hz.
Comments
mike
i love steves website and well now i dontthanks to that horrible prank he pulled onus im not sure ill ever hear again
Horace
This is great to check the ages of people I work with. Good site.
Sean
Interesting, but you didn't filter out the harmonics....
Alex
This is great, im 31 and i could hear it with no problem i would'nt use this to get rid of people i would use this as a prank i agree with all the kids saying this is discriminatio, but if you know were i could download it i would appriciate ty
jake
I can hear 16,000 quite clearly and I'm a 36 year old male.
just for your records there.
Jay
I'm a month shy of 49 and can her 17,000 very clearly - 'course my wife complains that the smallest sound wakes me up. Amazing I got any sleep as a teenager.
yuri
Im 20 and i can barely hear the 17000
But I kill ears with loud music all the time so maybe thats why...
thanks ochenk that was cool
Thom
Not sure if this counts, when I listen to the 22,000 I instantly get a ringing in my ears that stops the moment the file ends. I am 20 myself, and have always considered myself extra-sensitive.
Ashley
I'm 22 and I had no problem hearing them. Although it seems as if my ears wont be the same after this.
Heidi
I just turned 35 and can hear all of them except for 22,000 hz.
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