CYBER FOX

Today, I found something really amazing! A mosquito Ringtone! surprisingly I had never heard of it before. If you don’t know what a mosquito ringtone is, well let me explain. It’s a ringtone but only kids and teens can hear it, because the frequency of the ringtone is so high, most adults can’t hear it. Apparently, adults start to loose their hearing around their of high frequency sounds around their 30’s.

We’ve all heard that human hearing extends covers the frequencies from 20Hz to 20,000Hz. Hz is the abbreviation for Hertz, meaning cycles per second. It’s true nominally that we human beings can hear these frequencies, but that’s under optimal conditions. Like I said ,for most of us the, highest frequency we can hear gets lower and lower every year of our adult life. This effect can be worsened if we listened to loud music often when we were younger. By the time we’re 30 years old, most of us can’t hear anything higher than about 14,000Hz, if that. Mosquito Ringtones use 17,000Hz.

This is kind of cool, now everyone who can hear high frequncy noises will be able to hear their phone ring in school, without the teacher knowing. This could be really useful but, wait! even if you know your phone is ringing you still can’t take the call! I guess everything has a flaw! Although, you might know when you received a text message!

If you want to test your ears to see if you can hear the sound, click on the audio button below, it’s from jetcityorange.com, a website that plays the sound and you can download it in a mp3 format. I tried it, and I heard a stinging low sound. I am not sure if that’s what you would normally heard, it didn’t really bother me, although after a few minutes my head started to hurt. I asked a 7 year old to tell me if she heard it, when I pressed play she immediately covered her ears and said it was too loud. I am guessing 7 year olds get the full effect. (Duh!)

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