Japan invents speech-jamming gun that silences people mid-sentence

My Fox Orlando ^ | 02 Mar 2012, 10:05 AM EST

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TOKYO (Newscore) - 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 "SpeechJammer" gun that can silence people more than 30 meters away.

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."

They found that the device works better on people who were reading aloud than engaged in "spontaneous speech" and it cannot stop people making meaningless sounds, such as "ahhh," that are uttered over a long time period.

Kurihara and Tsukada suggested the speech-jamming gun could be used to hush noisy speakers in public libraries or to silence people in group discussions who interrupt other people's speeches.

"There are still many cases in which the negative aspects of speech become a barrier to the peaceful resolution of conflicts," the authors said.

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With one of these I could still be married...

[Iron head mike]

I was thinking the same thing.

[Izzy Dunne]

I say blast off and nuke the whole site from orbit.
It’s the only way to be sure.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Ah so, I’ll take a dozen. Then I can use it to

[cripplecreek]

it cannot stop people making meaningless sounds, such as "ahhh," that are uttered over a long time period.

Great, an anti Obama ray they does everything but stop him from using the most common words in his vocabulary.

[mardi59]

They found that the device works better on people who were reading aloud than engaged in “spontaneous speech” and it cannot stop people making meaningless sounds, such as “ahhh,” that are uttered over a long time period./

President obam: I have authorized....ahhh...uhhh

President obama: Sory, The last adnibistr...uh...uh...ahh

[ScottinVA]

Great, an anti Obama ray they does everything but stop him from using the most common words in his vocabulary.

Those being, "Let me be clear," "I" and "fairness."

[bigbob]

This should be the product of the century!

Wonder if it could be built-into every cellphone and remotely activated?

[ScottinVA]

I’d like to try it out on Sheila Jackson Lee. That’ll tell us if it REALLY works.

[ejonesie22]

I am still married but this would make it much more pleasant

[cripplecreek]

"There are still many cases in which the negative aspects of speech become a barrier to the peaceful resolution of conflicts,"

Won't be long before these start showing up at town hall meetings in the hands of the speaker's security teams.

[Vaquero]

I bet zer0 regime buys up all of them.

[New Perspective]

That's no big deal, I have had one for years.

[Kimmers]

I would have loved that for those school meetings where there is always that one parent that loves to hear themselves talk.......another reason to home school....

[Lazamataz]

THIS WILL ELIMINATE FREE SP..
(this will eliminate free sp....)

Aw hell.

[Bitsy]

A great anti progressive weapon - I’ll take a dozen!!!
Bang - Pelosi: First you have to pass this bill....zap
Obama: Let me be perfectly cl.....zap
Boxer: Please don’t call me ma’am. I worked...zap
It’s George Bush’s fa...zap
Beauty!!!!

[sasquatch]

Won’t work on a lot of people. Often, when the piehole flaps the ears shut down. Also, unless there’s a delayed reflection of the teleprompter, the bamster will flap away ad nausium.

[Vigilanteman]

Not possible. The Japanese love making things and are very, very good at it. When they run out of factory capacity in Japan for any reason, they are second to none about setting up plants anywhere in the world.

I ought to know. I've worked for them for the last 24 years. This is the country which figured out how to reverse engineer poop into food. Seriously!

[Lazamataz]

Research paper on same.

[RC2]

This would be good to control riots or in the ghetto’s. The Occupy crowds would hate this.....that’s a good thing.