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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
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.
So I guess the only time you know you're getting a call is when you aren't getting bit.
What do I have to do to get a sig around here?! www.bearscanfly.org
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 /. ??
-- Sig
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.
I made that up.
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.
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.
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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.