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LG Sells Mosquito-Repelling TV In India (technobuffalo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In effort to fight Zika, dengue and malaria, LG has released the "LG 32LG52D" TV with "Mosquito Away Technology." According to Reuters, the TV uses ultrasonic waves that are inaudible to humans but cause mosquitoes to fly away. The TV has been released in India Thursday, and will go on sale next month in the Philippines and Sri Lanka, with no plans to market it elsewhere. It is available in two models, priced at 26,500 rupees and 47,500 rupees ($394 and $706). LG says the same technology used in its new TV has been used in some of its air conditioners and washing machines.
This is obviously expensive. Why not just use chemicals that kill mosquito populations?
My friend, for less than HALF that price, I'll sell you a mosquito-repelling rock! Shoots ultrasound waves. Humans can't hear 'em. This netting acts as an antenna. And it WORKS! There are no mosquitoes in here, right?
Is there an app for that?
Almost be a reason to actually use a smartphone ;)
the mosquitos fly away from the TV, but then they are going to go to the couch where people is sitting watching TV..... so shouldn't the ultrasonic waves be on the couch instead? or chair or whatever place where people is watching the TV?
Plus, they purr when you pet them.
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Every decade or so since the 1970s there have been ultrasonic mosquito repellents sold. my parents bought one back then. didn't work. and any competent
entomologist will tell you it won't and can't work
Loosen up the flyback so you get that 15.75 kHz squeal going, and use the CRT high voltage as a bug zapper...
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I guess this is what happens to electronics that get shipped back for coil whine.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Sound doesn't repel mosquitoes. However, an Indian (and US) firm called SilverPush is using ultrasonic beacons in ads to track users across multiple devices. I suspect that this is really used for tracking people and not to perform any useful function. I really think that ALL marketing firms need to be put out of business and their management sent to jail for the rest of their lives. Advertising is incredibly unethical in the modern world and is a scam for everyone except the marketing companies. Ads are ineffective, don't pay people who display ads well, track users without consent, but you can bet the management of these firms gets paid well. I suspect this is another marketing scam.
15.734 kHz. No, wait, India is PAL country, so 15.625 kHz.
... because why not just sell a 1,000 watt amplifier at those frequencies?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Mosquitos can't fly fast, so you can trap them with wind: Set up a ventilator to blow into a bag made of mosquito net. There are videos on Youtube showing several simple designs. Here's one for example (not mine).
We repel them with lasers instead? Mosquitoes, mice, rats, they all disappear in a bright blue flash.
LED lasers are pretty powerful now... seems like someone could create a computer controlled system to zap them out of the air.
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those chipmunks that keep coming into my garage when the door is open sure as hell hear me when I enter.
Are they singing?
Inaudible my ass. I've heard the coil whine in cathode tube TVs for 50 years.
Kudos to the marketing department for turning a defect into a selling feature.
P.S. It doesn't actually repel mosquitoes. The coil whine and the whine of mosquitoes is so similar that after having the TV on for awhile, you no longer hear, notice the mosquito whine. Also, alcohol.
Isn't the new mosquito deterrent, infra-red lasers? Someone just needs to make them solar/battery powered and free.
We once used smart way of reducing mosquitoes population, such as releasing huge batch of infertile males
Now the TV approach is quite odd. If you can afford a TV, your mosquitoes will fly away - to the home of the one that cannot afford a TV. This is class warfare bumped to the biological weapon level.
The TV is internet connected, and must remain on to emit the waves. Naturally, since it does this by sound emission, the speakers must be on, and it must be turned up. To help defray the cost of developing the TV, (and to pad their bottom lines,) LG and partners will broadcast targeted ads, which since the mosquitos are repelled by the sound coming from the TV, you'll be nearby all the time, to be close to the thing repelling the mosquitos.
So let me get this straight. Mosquitos carrying viruses and parasites harmful to humans such as dengue fever, yellow fever, and the dreaded Zika virus, and probably lots of others, might bite me and transmit these things to me, and to avoid that, all I have to do is be near a TV set that's playing a constant stream of ads?
Fuck it. Bring on the Zika virus. Anything's better than having to listen to non-stop ads. Why do you think I don't have cable anymore?
It also gives out a high pitch noise at low brightness. So it was a feature after all.
...the recipient to *feel* defrauded. It doesn't count if you as an uninvolved 3rd party feels a transaction between other people is fraud.
Isn't any means of mitigating suffering an interference with karma? This has all the hallmarks of Western attempts to recolonialize India with ideas hostile to Vedanta.
I remember holding one of these "ultrasonic mosquito repellent" devices in my hands as a kid, watching a mosquito land on it (it was on), and then proceed to land on me for the purpose of biting me...
Replace the infrared laser in a laser printer scanner with something powerful and mount it on doorways pointing down. Just make certain that Karan or Pooja does not linger in the doorway or they will have the Bhai Mati Das experience.
Just turn on your TV and select any channel dealing with "shopping", "entertainment" or "celebrities". This will either make mosquitoes leave in disgust or make them so stupid they won't remember how to bite.