Sci/Tech Speech Jamming Gun Freezes Any Talker Mid-Sentence

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Want to be the kind of person who causes entire rooms to fall silent when you enter? Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tskuba and Ochanomizu University in Japan have created a speech jamming gun that takes the words right out of speakers’ mouths using a clever trick of psychology.

Psychologists have long known that for whatever reason, it’s very difficult to talk when your words are being immediately repeated to you. Not annoying-younger-sibling repeated to you, but spit back at you just a fraction after you’ve spoken. So by using a simple directional microphone and speaker device, the researchers have created a handheld “speech jammer” that records what a person is saying and repeats it back at them with a two-tenths-of-a-second delay.

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Speech Jamming Gun Freezes Any Talker Mid-Sentence

Want to be the kind of person who causes entire rooms to fall silent when you enter? Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tskuba and Ochanomizu University in Japan have created a speech jamming gun that takes the words right out of speakers'...
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What is the purpose behind this? A whole new level of trolling?
 
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I want to use this at parties.
"Ladies, close your eyes"
*Takes out speech jammer*
"When you open them again, you may find it hard to talk"
"If you do, that's because you're in loooooooveeee with the man before your eyes"
*Fires gun*

Or something like that.
 
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Furby said:
I meant for the teacher to use it....
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I dont think so.
Grouching children wont stop just because you repeat them. When children are upset and make some noise they dont care about other sounds around them and just keep screaming. They also are too immature to give up and even if they might not be able to say something of sense they might still just try to disrupt.
 
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it only works with words? i.e. students will start talking like pirates

But the commercial applications are virtually endless, as there are obvious applications for anyone who ever plans to get into a relationship with another human being ever.

this is the truth, when I was little me and my siblings would always joke around by using the TV remote to "mute" people we didn't want to hear.. now this device is invented.. I wonder if I can set up a computer to record/playback .2 seconds later - it would be interesting, it seems like something that we can do/make ourselves
 
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Seems like dogs are gonna have to get put on the back-burner, as man has found a new best friend. Go ahead, ladies, say what you need to say. Oh, what's that? You can't? Then shut up and make me a sandwich.

I'd like one.
 
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Interesting. I would like to see it in action in a you-tube video, showing how effective it is. Sounds like it would only be moderately effective.
 
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Fatmankev said:
Seems like dogs are gonna have to get put on the back-burner, as man has found a new best friend. Go ahead, ladies, say what you need to say. Oh, what's that? You can't? Then shut up and make me a sandwich.
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Do you realize, that it could be the other way around too
 
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Well, obviously this is a device intended specifically for men, just as the vacuum cleaner is designed specifically for women. So we shouldn't have to worry about it being used against us, as long as it's used as intended.
 
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FireCat said:
Nah it isn't. This device can be used by both women and men
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like I said, it won't make a difference - and slightly more on-topic, im sure people will eventually get used to talking against the device, rendering it not too useful

now if only I could use it for barking dogs...
 
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Slapshot136 said:
now if only I could use it for barking dogs...
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Just dominate barking Dogs, it's easy :)
Also, dogs are such awesome companions, not pets, I really wouldn't use it against them. Rather, I'd use it on annoying people and know-it-alls. Can't stand social "supreme" people who in reality arn't and also beaches/bishes/biatches/a.s.o.
 
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