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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.
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?
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
they won't even fly from the TV, mosquitoes are insensitive to sound even including the ones their predators make; look up what scientist have to say about repelling mosquitoes with *any* frequency including dragonfly generated frequencies, bird generated, etc. bottom line: they aren't repelled by any known sound
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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Probably repelled by focused ultrasound, 'cause it would turn them into a-cellular slurry.
Might not be real safe to have it being emitted from a tv though, haha.
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.
That's probably why they aren't selling them in the US where people hate mosquitoes AND have money for TVs. And a legal system that frowns on fraud.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
... 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.
You're joking right? those ultrasonic pest repellers are everywhere in the US, as are a billion other fraudulent products and services ranging from homeopathic "medicines" to psychic readings.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
A legal system that frowns on fraud? The networks of televangelists could have fooled me into thinking otherwise.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
LED lasers are pretty powerful now... seems like someone could create a computer controlled system to zap them out of the air.
love is just extroverted narcissism
I welcome our deadly television overlords
Everyone should have a Twonky
those chipmunks that keep coming into my garage when the door is open sure as hell hear me when I enter.
Are they singing?
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.
There are some interesting DIY traps based on spare tires which are pretty effective at killing mosquito eggs which reduces the population. From my understanding one of the bigger problems in most of these areas is that there is generally a lot of places with sitting water for them to nest.
...the recipient to *feel* defrauded. It doesn't count if you as an uninvolved 3rd party feels a transaction between other people is fraud.
Already done: http://www.intellectualventure... http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-...
It's only "done" when you can get on Amazon or got to Wal-mart and buy one.
That shit has been vaporware for over 10 years. Still nothing, nada, nobody can get one, even if they would spend $500 for one.
So no, not "done". Vaporware.
> It's only "done" when you can get on Amazon or got to Wal-mart and buy one.
The systems are dangerous to human eyes and they're fire hazards. Until those issues are resolved, and they're very difficult to resolve, I don't see them ever being available for household purchase.
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...
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.
I agree, there is a dB level that can bore through any solid object, device that did that was made in the 1970s. I don't think the particular frequency mattered too much....