Invented by the Japanese, the device could be used to hush noisy speakers in public libraries or to silence people in group discussions who interrupt other people's speeches. Can I please have one to point at the loony far Left? (Just kidding, I'm for free speech, but you've got to love the idea of this gadget.) As Sweetness and Light notices, it cannot stop people making meaningless sounds, such as "ahhh," that are uttered over a long time period ... which means Mr. Obama and most Democrats are safe.
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 a research paper published Feb. 28 at arXiv.org, 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." (Fox News)
Hee hee.
Can you imagine if I had one of these in my classroom?
Posted by: Always On Watch | March 02, 2012 at 11:37 AM
I'm sure you'll love having one of these for when people call you on your complete lack of moral and cerebral fiber. If you're psyched on the idea of being able to physically control the capacity of others to express themselves - you know, to do things like contradict you? - you need to check your mentality for real, kid.
Posted by: vafancullo | March 02, 2012 at 12:44 PM
HAHA!!! Don't tell my husband about this. He'll get one to have handy when I launch into one of my anti-left rants.
Posted by: Jenny | March 02, 2012 at 01:04 PM
A shut up ray? It's about time.
Posted by: Trestin | March 02, 2012 at 02:31 PM
I'm wondering what this gadget costs.
Posted by: Debbie | March 02, 2012 at 02:35 PM
A Taurus Judge works just fine thank you. the only side effect is cleaning the fecal matter off the porch.
Load it? Why?
Posted by: Jeremy | March 02, 2012 at 05:05 PM
It should definitely be employed at the loony left, when they start screaming racist abuse and vile insults.
Posted by: Right Wing Theocrat | March 03, 2012 at 04:32 AM