WATCH: Video of the Japanese ‘Speech-Jammer’ gun in action. By David FergusonSaturday, March 3, 2012 22:32 EDT Japanese researchers have created a “gun” that enables its user to silence the speech of other people. The device uses a unidirectional microphone to record the speaker’s voice, then play it back to them at a delay of hundredths of a millisecond. The wash of verbiage disrupts the concentration of the speaker and renders them incapable of speech.
The sampled-and-returned speech is audible only to the targeted individual and the resulting effect is said to be like “hearing a recording of one’s own voice echoing inside one’s skull,” which creates a kind of induced stutter. In the video below, embedded via YouTube, you can watch volunteers being exposed to the Speech-Jammer and see its effects in real time. Copyright 2012 The Raw Story <a style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" href=" David Ferguson David Ferguson is an editor at Raw Story. Why skinny jeans are bad for your health. Texas executes woman convicted of starving nine-year-old By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - A woman convicted of the 2004 starving death of a 9-year-old boy was executed on Wednesday by lethal injection at a Texas state prison, authorities said. Lisa Ann Coleman, 38, was pronounced dead at 6:24 p.m.
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