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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject: Students find ring tone adults can't hear |
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Students find ring tone adults can't hear
Students are using a new ring tone to receive messages in class -- and many teachers can't even hear the ring.... As people age, many develop what's known as aging ear -- a loss of the ability to hear higher-frequency sounds... The company called their product the "Mosquito." .... Donna Lewis, a teacher in Manhattan, says her colleague played the ring for a classroom of first-graders -- and all of them could hear it, while the adults couldn't hear anything.
Yahoo!News (June 12, 2006)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060612/ap_on_sc/nyc_youth_ring_tone |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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| We have special adults that can hear this ring tone. |
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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| We have special adults that can hear this ring tone. |
Yeah. I could hear it. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| the_beaver wrote: |
| mithridates wrote: |
| We have special adults that can hear this ring tone. |
Yeah. I could hear it. |
Yeah, we're awesome!
But there's no way that should be called the mosquito. A mosquito sounds like Michael Clarke Duncan compared to that sound. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah I could hear it but just barely.
I would get to work right away on a device that detects the tone and then when it hears it, floods the classroom with a good 10 minutes of the tone. If they like it so much... |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Piano tuners say that it is easy to recognize a piano which has been tuned by an experienced but aging piano tuner: the middle register is tuned perfectly because of the piano tuner's experience, but the extreme registers are not as well tuned because of the piano tuner's hearing loss. |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| We have special adults that can hear this ring tone. |
http://forums.galbijim.com/index.php?showtopic=1359&hl=
http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/audio/nyregion/20060610_RINGTONE.mp3
I could hear it, and I'm, uh, far removed from being a teenager.
The reason that people gradually lose their hearing is because the hairs of the inner ear do not grow back.
Little by little, they are shorn off.
Over the course of decades, people lose their hearing, especially in the upper range (high-pitched noises cause more damage to the hairs).
However, by blasting their MP3 players deep into their ear canals through the use of those bud-shaped earpieces, I wouldn't be surprised if modern teenagers are inflicting damage to their hearing that puts them on par with their "elders." |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| the_beaver wrote: |
| mithridates wrote: |
| We have special adults that can hear this ring tone. |
Yeah. I could hear it. |
Yeah, we're awesome!
But there's no way that should be called the mosquito. A mosquito sounds like Michael Clarke Duncan compared to that sound. |
That just reminded me, you can buy those little ultrasonic mosquito repellent devices and they make the same sound. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I heard it loud and clear. I think it might be hard to hear mixed in with the noise made by 35 students, regardless of the age of the listener. |
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capebretoncanadian
Joined: 20 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I could hear it too....what about vibrate function ya little tards? |
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Wrench
Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:21 am Post subject: |
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OW...
Man that hurts. |
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