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Sunday, March 04, 2012

Japan Invents Speech-Jamming Gun


Japanese researchers have invented a speech-jamming gadget that painlessly forces people into silence.

Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University, developed a portable "Speech-Jammer" gun that can silence people more than 30 meters away in mid-sentence.

The device works by recording its target's speech, then firing their words back at them with a 0.2-second delay, which affects the brain's cognitive processes and causes speakers to stutter before silencing them completely.

Describing the device in their research paper, Kurihara and Tsukada wrote, "In general, human speech is jammed by giving back to the speakers their own utterances at a delay of a few hundred milliseconds. This effect can disturb people without any physical discomfort, and disappears immediately by stopping speaking."

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe that device would be the counter measure for the automatic speech making device.
The automatic speech making device causes suseptable people to beging making speeches when it's pointed at them. Most of the time the suseptable people don't even know what they are saying.
I've seen this device used time and time again.
The device is called a teleprompter and Obummer is the weak minded person that can't resist it.

Anonymous said...

when are we allowed to buy one in the US.