Bumblebee ringtone

[DaviDC.]

Twice this week I've seen on TV kids with a ringtone on their phones that adults can't hear. Once it was refered to as a bumblebee ringtone. I did a Google search hoping to find something I could listen to because I want to see if I can hear it, but came up empty.

I know listening to anything on the crappy little rear-firing speakers on this MacBook will be limited, but I've got headphones.

[Jp!]

Probably related to this post

http://forums.macresource.com/read/1/117...msg-117062

[Tofer]

Try searching for "mosquito ringtone" I've never heard it called the bumblebee ringtone:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=mosquito+ringtone&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

-Tofer

[BigGuynRusty]

I'm old and can hear it, irritating as hell.
Both my nephews can't hear it, both listen to their iPods at about 3000 decibels though!

BGnR

[DaviDC.]

Thanks guys! I played it through external speakers & could hear it if I turned my head just right. Three cats sat up & looked at me while it was playing.

[Fritz]

woo hoo, I'm not deaf yet

[cbelt3]

Huh ? What ? Sorry, I didn't hear your call.
too much time near jet engines and other nasty military hardware.

I am now fondly recalling a 'distraction device' that I made in quantity in high school- a little handmade PCB with a 555 timer, piezo speaker, 9V battery, a few caps and a few resistors. It put out a 22KHz warble that was juuuuust above the audible range for most of my classmates, but would really annoy them. In testing, I got agressive responses about 75% of the time when the listener could not 'hear' the tone. It was an interesting physio-psyhological experiment.

And probably would have gotten me expelled, which is why I didn't turn it into a science fair project as originally planned.