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Drive Folks of All Ages Away With High-Pitch-Emitting 'Mosquito' Device

Tool to Annoy the Youthful Turned on Adults
The Mosquito, a small box designed to irritate young people by emitting a high pitched whine only audible to those 25 years old or younger, is expanding its audience by lowering the pitch to annoy everyone. Great...

Until now, the high-frequency box has been used primarily to keep young hooligans from bothering shopkeepers by loitering. But now that it can be heard by everyone, the box can be used to keep anyone from entering a store. Why anyone would want that we're not exactly sure, but to each his own, right?

The devices may find their way into parking garages and secluded parts of parks where criminals or the homeless might hang around. Of course, we can see this becoming a favorite tool of pranksters everywhere, and it's only a matter of time before one these drives some poor stressed out person to violence. [From: Techdirt]

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