Tech Buzz Clicking the play button will produce a tone that's usually only heard by people under the age of 25. It's apparently been used as a deterrent device to keep teenagers from loitering. [Editor's Note: This isn't scientific or anything, but I tried this at home yesterday and only one of my two roommates could hear it. So either there's something in it, or my roommate is a no-good lying bastard. Test it out for yourself and let us know if you can hear it.]
i'm 45 with tinnitus and *i* heard it.
i can hear it. im 31. i think your roommate is the stupid lying bastard you believe him to be. :}
teens are actually using this tone to text message in class….this way their teachers cant hear their phones going off. sneaky fucks
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I heard it just fine. Fuckers.
I am 25 and can hear it, glad to know that the bats aren't talking about me behind my back.
If you don't want to hear it anymore, just turn up the volume really loud (really loud). Try to kill that part of your hearing range! Let us know if you try it.
I heard it well, but oddly enough, it didn't bother me. I'm 22. Actually, i stopped playing it 30secs ago and i still hear it.
I heard it, I'm 37, and no sir, I didn't like it.
Ouch! Why?
That's awful. I can't wait until I'm 26.
I decided to try it out for myself, I can hear it a bit. My 12 year old was in the kitchen doing homework and starts screaming what is that noise. I stopped and started it several times, each time he would scream and cover his ears in pain. I bookmarked it. ;-)
God, yes! Ugh! Makes me want to gouge my eyes out.
I'm 24 and I could definitely hear this amazingly annoying noise.
I don't know about this - I have a severe hearing loss in higher frequencies (I wear hearing aids to compensate) - I took the aids out, turned the tone on and could hear it perfectly. I thought perhaps I was missing something, but I was able to describe it just the same as my colleague of normal hearing. I'm 24, btw.
I can't hear it, and I've tried many times. My kids can. And my boyfriend, who is 52, heard it fine. He described it as the sound an old TV makes when it comes on, so I know he's telling the truth -someone on my site described it the same way.
lol - i was a sound engineer for live concerts for ten years, and i'm 45. glad to say i can hear it. when i was a kid, the flash on my grandfather's camera made this crazy noise when he first turned it on - started low and then went way high and buzzed for a minute until the flash warmed up. i used to trip out on the fact that he couldn't hear it.
I'm 64 and I heard it just fine.
I couldnt hear it at first. then I cranked up the volume to 11, and heard it.
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