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NEW YORK Jun 12, 2006 (AP)— Students are using a new ring tone to receive messages in class — and many teachers can't even hear the ring.

Some students are downloading a ring tone off the Internet that is too high-pitched to be heard by most adults. With it, high schoolers can receive text message alerts on their cell phones without the teacher knowing.

As people age, many develop what's known as aging ear — a loss of the ability to hear higher-frequency sounds.

The ring tone is a spin-off of technology that was originally meant to repel teenagers — not help them. A Welsh security company developed the tone to help shopkeepers disperse young people loitering in front of their stores while leaving adults unaffected. 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.

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Popcynical

Siiiick! I'm downloading it.

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Big_armz

hey I heard about that on the radio

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X-Wolf-X

Wow theres a ringtone add under where im typing, freaky, now they need to make one adults can hear but children cant hmmmmm

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Blondi

Interesting, very interesting....I like the idea, wonder if it would work in the operating room?

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icemagic

Himm interesting, ill test it on my parents.

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Sanguine

....... the same kind of testing were to make annoying teenagers avoid the mall. (like if all teenagers visit the mall to annoy older people. *sighs*).

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Monstergamer

thats funny, i am half def in one ear but i can still hear that ringer

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DrakeWurrum

Too bad I'm not popular enough to need to hide my ring tone like that.

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Monstergamer

dont feel bad on that one, the only time i get call is if some one needs some thing from me

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shadow_fox 2.0

I've just been reading about this in some studies I've been doing on ultrasound... although this is kind of stupid. Hasn't anyone heard of just putting their phones on vibrate?

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DrakeWurrum

Actually, when my phone is on vibrate, I can't feel it unless I'm sitting absolutely still and there's no other vibrations around me. Maybe I just need a new phone, though. Although, my family has the same issue, and two of them have rather new phones.
Of course, it's usually the case that you can't answer at the time when it's on vibrate anyways, so you might as well just turn off the sound AND vibrate. If it's really important, they'll leave a message, and you'll at least be able to check your missed calls and call them back.

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Tim

Everyone can hear this ringtone I tried it out on my family and even 50+ yr olds can hear it.

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big gamer3732

that ringtone nearly made me def seriously... for those of you who have never heard it or cant find it, here it is..... brace yourself before listeninghttp://www.fork.com/ringtones.php

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