July 9, 2003

A mobile phone-based mosquito repellent

Well it's not exactly a ringtone that wards off mosquitos, but anti-mosquito sound waves which can be downloaded from Korean mobile operator SK Telecom onto cell phones, which will repel them within a range of one meter. "The mosquito repelling service uses a particular spectrum of sound waves, which are undetectable by human ears. But the frequencies annoy mosquitoes". From TechDirt Wireless.

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