This was a great week in Nobel Prize world for the U.S., but in the IgNobel Prize world, one which lampoons the Nobel Prizes, one of the winners was something we had covered earlier at RTN, the Mosquito. This is a device that drives away teenagers by playing a sound...
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...
There’s a new cell phone ring tone that’s hot with kids. If you’re an adult, you probably haven’t heard it. It’s called the “mosquito,” a super-high-pitched buzz originally marketed to convenience stores and other places...
It sounds like science fiction, but apparently it’s the latest buzz among teens — literally. A cell-phone ring that adults can’t hear. An invention, known as the Mosquito, originally marketed to keep teens from congregating in front of stores has now...
Enterprising teenagers have hijacked a high-pitched electronic blip which adults cannot hear and turned it into a stealth ringtone. It is suitable for use in situations where grown ups aren’t meant know there’s an incoming call or text message. The...
Horndean Parish Council is thinking about bringing in a high-pitched device to help disperse gangs of youngsters hanging around the streets. The Mosquito, or Chavbuster, has already been used to split up gangs of troublemakers on inner city estates but it would be the...
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