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Repel Bugs With Your Cell Phone

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the making-the-mosquitoes-quit dept.

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.

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  1. Regular ringtones repel me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I try to stay as far away as possible from someone with a cell phone.

  2. So... by Osrin · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... if you're troubled by a bug you need to quickly find a payphone and call yourself? How will it work?

  3. Why a ringtone? by Edgewize · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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!"

    1. Re:Why a ringtone? by SquadBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm married to a Korean girl and love her so take the following with that in mind.

      Korean's are *paranoid* about mosquitos I mean freaking irrational. *Anything* that cliams to get rid of mozquitos will sell like hotcakes over there does not matter if it makes sense or not. Think about it a ringtone you can't hear. In any case that is why an anti-mosquito ringtone.

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  4. I've decoded the mysterious sound by winkydink · · Score: 5, Funny

    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"

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    1. Re:I've decoded the mysterious sound by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Mod parent down!

      Violation of the DMCA!!!

  5. Inaudible to humans hmm? by oiper · · Score: 5, Funny

    So I guess the only time you know you're getting a call is when you aren't getting bit.

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  6. Just FYI by Ted_Green · · Score: 5, Funny

    I made that up.

  7. Re:Simple test by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cigarette smoke works too. They didn't tell you about that in Boy Scouts, did they?

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