Buy It And Try It: The Mosquito Ring Tone

Just go into a classroom, and ask the kids to play their ring tones at once, you'll hear complete chaos. But at Buljan Middle School in Roseville, cell phones can't be used, they're banned.

I asked science teacher, Mr. Garbolino, what would happen if a student's phone rang like that in class? "It would probably get taken away," he answered.

But now there's a secret ring tone, a high pitch frequency only supposed to be heard by teens. It's called the mosquito ring tone, and many adults can't hear it.

We decide to try it out in the office. We asked everyone to raise their hand if they could hear the ring tone. The only hands that came up belonged to teens.

Let's play it for the vice principal. Can you hear it? "Not at all," replied Jody Ponzo.

So you can only imagine how kids would want to use it. Many of these students have heard of the mosquito ring tone. But this is the first time anyone's played it for them.

I asked the students to raise their hands if they heard the ring tone, and it just so happened that every eighth grader raised their hand.

So how about Mr. Garbolino? I asked him if he heard anything. "No, I don't hear anything," said Mr. Garbolino.

These kids think it sounds like nails on a chalkboard, although there are no chalk boards anymore, and sure the wheels are turning. But Mr. Garbolino says students should think twice before trying to pull a fast one. "They're going to get caught... sooner or later they're going to get caught. Teachers aren't as dumb as students think we are," said Mr. Garbolino.

You can download it for $2.99 off the web. We didn't try this out to give kids the idea, believe me, they already had them. But we wanted parents and teachers to know about this new tech trend.