If you want to see if you can hear the Mosquito Ringtone that only 20-somethings are supposed to be able to hear, try it for yourself here...
This one-of-a-kind new ringtone that I'm not supposed to be able to hear (because I'm "over 20") actually hurt my ears.
...I guess that means I heard it alright!
Then again, it only hurt my left ear. (Ha, I've always thought that my left side was my more "youthful" side... now it's been confirmed!)
Anyhoo...
A condition called presbycusis, or ageing ear, means that by the time most people reach the age of 25, they cannot hear much above a frequency of 13 or 14 kilohertz. Source
First The Facts:
Teenagers everywhere are downloading this all-new ringtone (known as "the mosquito ringtone", "teen buzz", "mosquitone") and using it to fool their parents and teachers into thinking their cellphone isn't ringing and/or they aren't text messaging their friends.Since adults lose the ability to hear high-pitched sounds, the teens are using this high-pitched ringtone to their advantage by setting their cellphones to ring this tone whenever they have an incoming call or text message. It's a way for their mobile phone to ring without adults knowing it.
The Mosquito Ringtone first arrived in classrooms earlier this year when a Scandinavian teenager, inspired by the Mosquito alarm, developed a high-frequency sound into a ringtone. The "Teen Buzz" is said to have spread to the UK and America via the Internet. Source
Q: What was the original Mosquito alarm all about?
A: It was a high-pitched sound machine marketed to help store owners in England to keep teenagers from loitering outside their shops!
Q: Why don't teens just set their phones to "vibrate"?
A: Because you can actually "hear" a cellphone vibrating these days. Not only do they vibrate, but cell phones also tend to hum at the same time -- a dead giveaway to someone trying to talk or text message without being noticed.
Q: How are they getting this ringtone?
A: Known as "Teen Buzz," it is spread from phone to phone via text message and Bluetooth technology. (Source)
Listen To "Teen Buzz" & Other Ultrasonic Ringtones
Truth be told, because of the lower sound quality that results from MP3 formats, most people will be able to hear the MP3 version of the Mosquito Ringtone.Before you try this yourself, realize that my (left) ear is still ringing! ...and it gave me a terrible headache.
Listen to the Mosquito Ringtone in MP3 format now.
On the other hand, the WAV file is a much higher quality audio file, and and a result, it is less likely to be heard by adults:
(I am unable to hear this version.)
It's probably no surpise -- since dogs can hear much higher pitched sounds than humans can -- that both of my dogs reacted to the MP3 and WAV sounds above. The funny part: Only the younger one (7 months old) acted confused and irritated by the sound. The older one (3 years old) raised his ears a bit, but otherwise remained on the floor, calm and content. (But then again, he is 21-- in dog years!)
If you'd like to know exactly which freqencies your ears can hear, have a listen to these ultrasonic ringtones which range from 8kHz to 21.1kHz.
If you're over 20, the ringtones in the 17 to 21 kHz range will most likely to be inaudible to your ears.
...Oh, by the way, my (left) ear is still ringing!
UPDATE: Want to put the mosquito ringtone on your cellphone? Try this free mp3 to ringtone converter.
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i am 13 and i heard about this and i looked it up, and i dont know how far up i can hear it, but all besides 2 of them, i can hear. yes it has left a buzzing/ringing/hurting sensation in my ears. first it was my left and now it's my right. but my little brother can't hear the lowest one i can, and he's 10; and my dad is 46 and he can't hear about half of what i can. so the answer to a question of "are my ears aging older than usual age?" no! this is a fake. they are high pitched buzzes. im in all the highest classes there are to be in, for an 8th grader; and what i have to say is, if you can see across a high-way of a jack in the box sign, you can definitely hear the loudest buzz there is. your ears are not aging earlier than they're supposed to.
im 15 n i first heard about this in my environmental class @ school
this guy downloaded the teen buzz and a lot of the kids in my class(their age ranging from 15-18) could hear it n apparently it was very irritating judging from the reaction of my classmates
me n this other guy sitting near me could not n of course neither did our teacher
so i checked it out online n it depends on the site i go to... on one website i could hear it all the way up to 22(barely)-on full volume
but when i followed the link to the ultrasonic ringtones w/ the dif. pitches on it, i could barely hear the 17.4 n i could kinda hear the 19.9 one
so does this mean that my ears are aging earlier than most kids my age??
I could barely hear it, but my sleeping 3 week old baby woke up screaming!! i think it really hurt her ears! soon after it stopped she calmed down. poor thing!!
BTW, I'm almost 26. Does this mean I'm old? LOL
Wow. I'm 15 and I can only hear up to 15.8. Jeese, maybe I'm going deaf. O_O
What an absolute load of teen shit, you are being conned, I am 40 and a scientist, I can hear this sound and higher sounds than this, its not annoying except that all the rubbish you are swallowing in thinking such rubbish like this is true. Some people may have less hearing as they age, usually they are in the 60+ bracket.
The "Teen Tormentor" has just been exposed as a fraud and so is this ringtone, they just want your money...
Ok, if it's such "fraud" why is it that I (being 17 years old) could hear it perfectly, but my parents couldn't? If you're a scientist like you say you are, I'm sure you'd be smart enough to know that what happens to you isn't the same for what happens to anyone else.
ha i can hear all the way up to 22 :]