The Mosquito Tone is a phenomenon that has recently garnered much media attention. For those who don’t know, this tone is a sound which operates at a level that paradoxically older people cannot hear, but younger people can.

It was originally marketed in Britain as an ultrasonic teenager repellent, an ear-splitting 17-kilohertz buzzer designed to help shopkeepers disperse young people loitering in front of their stores while leaving adults unaffected.

But now it has made it’s way to a whole generation of youth who utilize the sounds as ringtones. This enables teenagers to hear when their cellphones receive messages at times when the phones are supposed to be silenced, such as during classes in school.

Would you like to know if you might be able to hear these elusive tones? Plasticmind Journal has prepared an article which will allow you to do just that.

Click Here to see just how old you are (or at least how old your ears are). Incidentally, I could hear the tone all the way up to the 17 KHz — and I’m 40. So, like the man says, I got that going for me…