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Repel Bugs With Your Cell Phone
telstar writes "Starting Monday, SK Telecom Co. in South Korea will begin offering a ringtone designed to repel mosquitoes for the one-time price of $2.50. The ringtone, inaudible to humans, has a range of three feet, and functions just like any other ring-tone from your cell." Now if only there was a ringtone to repel bugs in code! Sorry, I'm full of bad jokes today.
I try to stay as far away as possible from someone with a cell phone.
... if you're troubled by a bug you need to quickly find a payphone and call yourself? How will it work?
"Now if only there was a ringtone to get rid of CowboyNeal's bad jokes"
So how long until sharper image releases the bug-b-gone 2200, a $3999 DRM-crippled cell phone capable only of playing the mosquito-repelling ringtone and serving you warm Colombian java.
"Hey, Mike. Thank god you called. The mosquitos are really something out here, you should see them. Yowch! God dammit! Hey, do me a favor Mike? Hang up and call me back!"
By carefully re-adjustng the frequency of the tone down to a level that humans can hear and slowing the playing speed down 300 times, I have been able to determine that it's a guy's voice saying, "this person tastes like crap"
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
[So convoluted *I* lost track of the joke]
-- @rjamestaylor on Ello
Maybe I should just leave it on top of my computer then...
Has Microsoft heard of this technology?
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
That's just stupid.
Alice: Damn these moquitos are eating me alive. Someone call me.
Bob: I would but I'm waiting for Carl across the table to call me first, I'm almost out of blood.
Carl: Just a sec Bob, I'm calling Dave.
Dave: ahhhh..
Trolling is a art,
So I guess the only time you know you're getting a call is when you aren't getting bit.
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develop a sound to repel Cell phone users.
Has anyone come up with the ringtone to keep your Boss three feet away from your desk when you are on /. ??
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After Bush posed for photographs with his hand on an elephant tusk in Africa and climbed back into the truck, one of the elephants mounted his mate. That prompted the president to whisper something to his wife. The first lady responded by slapping him on the leg.
Is a ringtone that repels the people who are calling.
What about a ring tone that works as an aphrodisiac? I'm pretty much the epitome of a walking aphrodisiac when it comes to women (:D) but I'm tired of playing the game. It would be so much easier to hit a button, have my phone ring, and watch her go mid-evil on my schlong.
Maybe they could also feature an add on ring for the next moring that makes her get the fuck out of my bed, cook me breakfast, blow me, leave and wipe, all memories of what happened, out like that thing in "Men in Black"?
I know...that is an AI-centric technology that is eons away....FUCK!!!
You aren't free to do anything, until you've lost everything.
once someone figured out how to combine this Purring Kitty Ringtone with its insect repelling counterpart, imagine what can truly be enjoyed anywhere in the dark?
When you can download high-pitched annoying sounds off of Kazaa...... look up Celine Dion
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I made that up.
bug me?
Cigarette smoke works too. They didn't tell you about that in Boy Scouts, did they?
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
Just what everyone needs, a ring tone that is inaudible and repells mosquitoes only when the phone rings. How are you expected to answer the phone, whit until the bugs stop attacking you and decide from that someone must be calling?
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
They should combine this phone with Sony VIAO's electric shock laptop (a few articles earlier.
But it should attract insects and then shock them. Then there's no need to recall all those laptops too.
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but annoys mosquitoes within a range of three feet
I annoy my little cousin, it doesn't repel him
Also, 3 FEET! That means it will protect my upper body, and leave my lower body for the wolves?
I mean, not even the average asian is 3 feet. At least 5, meaning 2 feet are getting screwed.
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So far as I know, all those sonic pest repel gizmos work best if you fling them at the pest.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
You don't know many boy scouts do you?
Why not fork?
I think some smart ass cell phone employee should have all their company's cell phones emit the same frequency as a dog whistle. Just think what hell would break loose...
Seems a quick google search is all it takes... and few do it... -_-;;
Sound based repellers don't work. Period. End of story. Combine that with the fact that CelPhones' earpieces and speakers produce sound in the 20hz-22000hz range... this is being generous as most are more like 50hz-18000hz. Most, if not all of which is audible to humans. At the point where the volume is turned down below what you can hear, it ain't there.
Citronella doesn't really repel insects.
Deet does, but is cancerous. (100% deet is still sold in California, btw.)
Carbon dioxide will lure Mosquitoes... potentially away from you. Hence the dry ice in the corner of the backyard trick works.
Skin So Soft, from what I can see online doesn't repel and the brand which they later produced which they claim does contains citronella... so it most likely doesn't.
Seriously, a ringtone which repels bugs? If you're willing to pay for that, I've got a special soundfile which you can play which will repel con artsists: I'm broke. I've got no money.
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no but the scout master always took me out for "special" walks in the woods to get away from the mosquitos.
you will see that "the company claimed that the service worked during tests." What is "the service"? The ability to download a special inaudible sound wave and play it by hitting a few buttons on the mobile phone. That is the service they are providing, and its not too hard to believe that it worked during testing. Unfortunately they are not providing you with an anti-mosquito service.
you need to quickly find a payphone and call yourself? How will it work?
Easy. Use a second cellphone with a ringtone that sounds like this.
(Of course, you could just call yourself directly with THAT cellphone, but hey, we're trying to be convoluted here, right?)
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