Online Hearing Test – Ultrasonic Frequencies
We’ve come up with a simple online hearing test to check your ears’ ability to hear the Mosquito Ringtone. Try out the hearing test and see the results, we tried to be humerous when we came up with the various results that may appear! Here is a sample of the results from the test: [...]
Buzz Off – the Anti-Mosqutio Movement Scores a Victory
The Children’s Commissioner launched the buzz off campaign and with the help of The Liberty group won a small victory last week by getting the Kent County Council to ban the mosquito devices from buildings in its jurisdiction. They started the Buzz Off campaign in February 2008. They soon hope to get a similar [...]
That “Other” Buzz… The Mosquito Ringtone vs. Vibrate
A common argument against the use of the mosquito ringtone has always been, ‘why not just set your phone to vibrate?’ Often the name of this setting is labeled “silent.” Unfortunately, from my experience and from the experiences of many of my friends, the vibrate setting is anything but silent. Particularly in the classroom setting [...]
Teens Treated Like Pests Fight Back!
The “teen buzz” mosquito ringtone began as a device used for purposes quite different than the ones teens use today for ‘silently’ transmitting text messages and receiving phone calls in class. In fact, if it hadn’t been for the development of this high pitched frequency for mobile phone ringtones, our youth would probably have a [...]
Teen Buzz Lets You Hear Your Cell Phone Ringing When Listening To Loud Music
Most of my kids friends’ know that I run this website, one of the kids told me an interesting story behind the reason he uses the Mosquito Ringtone. It happens to be one of the most different and unique reasons I have heard, for which I was unaware of before this. Like most teenagers, [...]