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STFU Gun: Speech Jammer Stops People Talking

March 2, 2012 / blabbermouth, chatty kathy, daddy needs, gun, how can i get my hands on one?, i need this, i said be quiet!, must have, pie-hole, put a cork in it!, shut your festering gob you tit! (monty python ftw), stfu already!, sure why not, talking, the future is now, this will be added to my birthday list and you can officially consider yourselves unfriended if i don't get it

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This is the SpeechJammer, a device that, when pointed at a person talking, will make them STFU up by playing whatever they're saying back to them loudly and at a few hundred millisecond delay, which apparently your brain can't handle. *drooling on myself* HERPA DERP?

The SpeechJammer, developed at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan, works because when we speak, we aren't just using our mouths as an "audio out" speaker. We actively listen to what we're saying, and the way we sound dictates how we proceed with our speech. The SpeechJammer screws with that. The "gun" shoots your words back to you, but with a delay of a few hundred milliseconds, which is enough to mess up natural cadence. The effect is called Delayed Auditory Feedback.

Admittedly, I thought ALL guns could make people stop talking. Plus start emptying their pockets. But what do I know? I'm just a man on the run from the law that rides a motorcycle and has beautiful hair and should probably have a movie made about him. HAHA -- YOU'LL NEVER CATCH ME, COPPERS! *revs bike, crashes over curb into apartment landscaping*

The Crazy Gun That Can Physically Stop You From Talking [gizmodo]

Thanks to Beatty and daniel, who agree they should employ these things in movie theaters. "But that would ruin the experience." I WANT TALKERS TO PUKE THEIR F***ING GUTS OUT.

There are Comments
  • Waron Sanguanwongwan

    This iPhone app do the same thing
    Speech Zapper [http://itunes.apple.com/us/app...]
    .....I guess you will need that speaker

  • this type of effect has the opposite effect on those who have severe stuttering issues. point this gun at someone who is a chronic stutterer and they will miraculously speak completely normal. Amazing how our brain works.

  • Autumndawnz

    I so need this for my husband when he nags about sex!

  • I want one of these. I promise only to use it for good.
    Honest.

  • n_a_a_s

    a swift smack to the side of someones face is also very effective

  • Joseph Vilain

    Mybe the mic's name is Mike?  I don't care, I want to try it.

  • Devin Golberg

     I think the poster of the article was a bit confused as to how it works... The device doesn't play your voice back at you to annoy you, it plays it back in the exact opposite phase to literally cancel it out!  Look up "Active Noise Control".

  • Rick_McRockock

    Nope... It's exactly what the article says it is. A similar wearable device is used to correct stuttering. In stutterers, hearing their own voice on a delay forces them to slow their speech to a manageable, fluent cadence. In this case it's about volume and a particularly timed delay (hence the distance meter). I had a cell phone that malfunctioned and  did almost this exact thing. It would feed back my voice a fraction of a second off at a higher volume in the earpiece. It was nearly impossible to talk on it and I had to replace it.

  • Anti STFU Gun = Earplugs

    Anyway this is an interesting dvice. This will help silence those annoying jabber jaws.

  • Call Nobel committee ASAP!

    Srsly though, the same effect happens when you're speaking on the phone and you get feedback of your own voice.

    ...I probably gave someone the greatest idea for an iPhone app. Remember to send me a thank you note written on a $100 bill, dude!

  • Mic, not Mike ... seriously. Here's our little ad, proving we don't even know how to properly name the various parts of our product ... please buy from us! ... FAIL

  • They're Japanese! You're lucky the labels make any sense at all.

  • FIRST FIRST FIRST FIIIIIIRST

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