My house has eight smoke alarms in it. Every few months, one starts up with the "battery low" beeping, and the hunt begins. Cursory checks are useless: total quiet must be established throughout the residence, and a state of zen-like stillness achieved to discern the direction of the God-damned incessant clucking noise. Even then, it always comes down to a lengthy wait by each and every one.
Now you can deliberately inflict such aggravations on others with the $10 Annoy-a-Tron. Cackle as your friends and co-workers' haplessly check every alarm, cellphone and gadget for the source of the annoying, random bleeping that the smug contraption emits.
There's even a dial to increase the unacceptability of its tone, ranging from a standard 2kHz "classic beep" to a 12kHz sound garbled with electronic noise, lovingly crafted to maximize irritation and despair.
Annoy-a-Tron - drive your colleagues crazy, why doncha? [The Red Ferret Journal]
