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Bragador
March 1st, 2006, 06:54 PM
hahaha, let them feel the pain :twisted:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1726378.html?menu=news.technology

bluevoodoo1
March 1st, 2006, 07:00 PM
"Sounds" neat. But why not just play some classical music??? That will keep plenty of annoying kids/teenagers away...

Bragador
March 1st, 2006, 07:03 PM
But then you would attract the weirdos...

bluevoodoo1
March 1st, 2006, 07:04 PM
But then you would attract the weirdos...

HEY! [-( I'm a classical musician \\:D/

bjweeks
March 1st, 2006, 07:07 PM
Screw that.

WildTangent
March 1st, 2006, 07:10 PM
That's evil...

Perfect Storm
March 1st, 2006, 07:16 PM
Now that's something I really want my hands on. That can be handy where I work.

Iandefor
March 1st, 2006, 07:22 PM
This is hardly new.

christhemonkey
March 1st, 2006, 07:26 PM
And what is wrong with classical musicians?!
And teenagers who are classical musicians?!!!!
lol!

DigitalDuality
March 1st, 2006, 07:49 PM
i want one.... i want a mobile one for my belt actually.

earobinson
March 1st, 2006, 07:50 PM
This is hardly new.
Im sure I had seen it before also, just couldent find the post

Kernel Sanders
March 1st, 2006, 08:17 PM
I still prefer super strength tear gas to be honest......... :twisted:

If I have a child, i'll install one in its bedroom...... :mrgreen:

Derek Djons
March 1st, 2006, 08:35 PM
******** in my opinion. Yes there are a lot of differences between animals and human but not between 20 year old teenagers and a 30 year old man.

Bragador
March 1st, 2006, 08:55 PM
Hearloss actually starts affecting high pitched noise. This gadget is based on that.

bjweeks
March 1st, 2006, 08:58 PM
If I see one in the next 5 years I will put a boombox at full blast next to it.

Stormy Eyes
March 1st, 2006, 09:23 PM
Why not just use a submachinegun?

Jucato
March 1st, 2006, 09:29 PM
Hmm... won't this cause some sort of hearing damage to teenagers? And, how about innocent teenagers who happen to pass by, or stay in the area? The article says the inventor owns a shop. I presume that what he sells are for adult eyes only. :D

Stormy Eyes
March 1st, 2006, 09:36 PM
I presume that what he sells are for adult eyes only. :D

Or perhaps he doesn't want crowds of young thugs loitering in front of his shop and scaring off the customers.

Jucato
March 1st, 2006, 09:41 PM
If so, then by using that device, he also effectively drives away would-be teen customers. Well, I guess he doesn't mind losing those kind of customers anyway. :D

OT: yeah, I think a submachinegun would be more effective and dramatic. :D

bjweeks
March 1st, 2006, 10:35 PM
Why not just use a submachinegun?
Only if it runs linux:mrgreen:

red_Marvin
March 1st, 2006, 10:54 PM
Rather a supermachinegun...

Anyway, I think it's weird and will probably not amount to anything good.
-Today's world needs silence, not more sound pollution...

Ah well, I suppose I heve to start working on an old-fart-detergent, to even the score...

Bragador
March 1st, 2006, 10:59 PM
The beauty is, adults wont be able to hear it ! So it WILL be a silent device !

Dogs will probably bark non stop though...

Bandit
March 1st, 2006, 11:03 PM
and using his four children as guinea pigs,
ROTF.. He tested it out on his own kids.. What a jerk...
Something tells me when he gets older its the old folks home for him.. :D

mstlyevil
March 1st, 2006, 11:15 PM
Doesn't Wayne Newton albums have the same effect?

FoxLogic
March 1st, 2006, 11:22 PM
I've always had a high pitch sound in my head. Happend when I was 6 years old. Fire cracker blew up in my face when a friend was not being very smart and chucked it at me only trying to make me jump.

I lost 24% of my hearing sense then. I use very high volume head phones and blast my music louder then most people can stand. I have problems hearing it. So I usually spend the majority of my time typing.

Bragador
March 1st, 2006, 11:25 PM
Your problem is called Tinnitus.

And it sucks to know you have that ...

mstlyevil
March 1st, 2006, 11:30 PM
Your problem is called Tinnitus.

And it sucks to know you have that ...

I have it in the right ear. I have no high or low range hearing whatsoever in it and I have a constant buzzing sound in my ear that almost sounds like the static on a cassette tape. You actually learn to ignore it after awhile.

Stormy Eyes
March 1st, 2006, 11:35 PM
Doesn't Wayne Newton albums have the same effect?

Not on me. They just make me violent.

Iandefor
March 2nd, 2006, 12:36 AM
******** in my opinion. Yes there are a lot of differences between animals and human but not between 20 year old teenagers and a 30 year old man. The ceiling for people for whom it's intended is around 20.
It's mainly to deter younger folk from steaming stores and being generally bad for business (Although if steaming isn't bad for business, I don't know what is :-D). I read an article on it for physics a while ago, and I can tell you, for some places, it's quite necessary, in order to keep the 12-year old girls from swearing at customers, stealing stuff (I'm not kidding) and the like.

bluevoodoo1
March 4th, 2006, 09:07 PM
Well my idea of playing classical music might work. A city in my home state might use it! Though it's geared toward reducing crime... article (http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060304/D8G4T9HO0.html).

Sirin
March 4th, 2006, 09:16 PM
You know that this can cause brain damage. This almost reaches the 20khz limit in what they can hear. This can also happen to adults, too.

Message to the kid-haters who use this selfish device: Don't come to me and cry because you had a Cerebral Hemmorhage due to the noise in which you can't hear. You set this device up yourselves, so deal with it. ;)