Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Signs of aging.

My teacher in one of my classes shared this website of mosquito ringtones. It lists several ringtones that can be heard or not heard by people depending on age. Everyone has a limit to how high of a pitch they can actually hear, and that limit changes with age. Younger ones can hear high frequencies that older people cannot.

I visited the website because it is intruiging. Try it also with a kid sibling or cousin to test if what you cannot hear can be heard by someone younger. Anyway I could hear the tones starting from Everyone to 60 and Below... then it became less and less audible until I could hardly hear 39 & Younger!!! Maybe because the room I'm in was pretty noisy.. but I had to put my ear closer to the laptop just to make sure I can still hear 30 & Younger. Lol. But for sure I could not hear 18khz and above. Waaahh.. somebody's getting old..

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