For years the hooded youths of Britain have been free to roam the country’s shopping streets. In the evenings and at the weekends they have loitered outside the shops of their choice. But that is all beginning to change, and no thanks to ASBOs. Across the nation...
THE GIZMO: MosquitoTone ringtones.NOW HEAR THIS: Who knew a high-pitched, hard-to-hear tone dubbed the Mosquito could cause such buzz? In Britain, products emitting the ultrasonic Mosquito frequencies have been heralded as a godsend and decried as an infringement on...
A mosquito ringtone is generally audible to teens only and most adults can’t hear it. Aubraux has introduced world’s first musical mosquito ringtone on their website at http://www.aubraux.com/mosquito-ring-tones.php. A mosquito ringtone is generally...
The chances are that if you are over 20, you will never have heard of it. But if you are a teenager in the habit of hanging around causing trouble, it could well have sent you and your mates packing. The Mosquito, which emits a sound that can be heard only by the...
BESIEGED by young yobs, a Park North shopkeeper has installed a high-pitched alarm to drive off louts. But just a day after Welcombe Stores in Park North installed the “mosquito” that had cleared the area outside the shop, the hooligans came back to try to...
It seems as if businesses have tried everything to rid themselves of pesky teenage loiterers–the ones who use foul language, constantly bum cigarettes, shoplift, and make older customers feel uncomfortable. For a time, primarily in the United Kingdom, businesses...
COCKERMOUTH youngsters will be driven away from gathering outside Sainsbury’s supermarket by a sounds device that only they can hear. Used by police, the Mosquito machine emits a sound that those under 20 years old can hear and officers hope it will deter...
EALING Council are using “mosquitos” to stop anti-social behaviour in the borough. Mosquitos are ultra-sonic devices which emits a high-pitched tone that can only be heard by people under 25-years-old. The council decided to install the devices in the...
And the winners are… We warned you last week that the annual Ig Nobel Prizes were about to be awarded in Cambridge, Mass., honoring — or dishonoring — some of the most undistinguished and farfetched work in science and other research-oriented fields....
IT IS a device with a variety of practical applications: an ingenious gadget that disperses gangs of loitering teenagers by emitting a piercing shriek only they can hear. Not the pinnacle of science, perhaps, but high enough to win the Welsh engineer who designed it...
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