The Ig Nobel Prize – not to be confused with its more serious counterpart, the Nobel Prize, awarded in Sweden each year – acknowledges unusual, dubious and sometimes just plain weird achievements in 10 areas of human knowledge and culture. Honourees...
Why it’s a top app: A mobile phone craze that started in the U.K. and quickly spread to the U.S. A ringtone that became ubiquitous almost overnight. A memorable brand based on an annoying animal. Sound like Crazy Frog? Forget it, this could be onto something...
A tiny Welsh company whose high-pitched alarm for repelling yobs spawned a mobile ringtone teachers couldn’t hear is set to hit the big time by selling an official version of the sneaky sound across the world. Merthyr Tydfil-based Mosquito Loitering Solutions,...
A small Valleys firm hopes its high-pitched alarm originally meant to repel youngsters from shops could become the latest teen ringtone craze. Merthyr Tydfil-based Mosquito Loitering Solutions’s “Mosquitotone” has now been filling column inches as...
Whippersnappers 1, baby boomers 0. That’s the score in a generational match of wits that has left adults technologically outsmarted by an invention created to ward off obnoxious teenagers. The Mosquito is a sound generator that emits a high-pitched buzz that is...
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