{"id":40083,"date":"2015-09-18T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=40083"},"modified":"2015-09-14T16:04:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T20:04:09","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-can-you-control-a-teen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-can-you-control-a-teen\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Can You Control a Teen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/mason-jar-speaker-amplifier?source=blog_UK150921\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40088\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/24190_zoom1.jpg\" alt=\"Mason Jar Speaker &amp; Amplifier | UncommonGoods\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might not be able to control their taste in music or their new fangled tastes in technology, but you can actually corral them like a couple of trendily dressed sheep. The secret behind it is kind of a bummer\u2014naturally occurring hearing loss. Sound is made of pressure waves that alternate between compressing and stretching through air at a certain frequency. The higher the frequency, the higher the resulting pitch you\u2019ll hear. Dogs have highly evolved hearing, which is how they can hear those fancy dog whistles and we can\u2019t. While we\u2019re born being able to hear a wide range of frequencies, this range narrows as we get older in a natural process called prebycusis. In an effort to take advantage of this deterioration, there is now a machine\u2014the aptly named The Mosquito\u2014that emits a high pitch frequency that, according to science, only those under the age of 24 can hear. How does this control the youths of the world? Put the machine in a spot where you\u2019re sick of pesky kids loitering and\u2014bingo\u2014the sound gets so annoying to their bionic, youthful ears that they scatter to the wind. The downside of the sound? The kids have caught on and can make it a ringtone for their cell phone. Text message dings, us Old Ears are none the wiser.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/mason-jar-speaker-amplifier?source=blog_UK150921\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Jar Speaker &amp; Amplifier <\/a>| $65<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hint: It&#8217;s not what you say, it&#8217;s how loud you say it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":40089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40083"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40091,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40083\/revisions\/40091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}