Coming to market soon!! A Japanese researcher has developed a "speech jammer gun" that can be pointed at loudmouths, and the gun's delayed auditory feedback (DAF), will turn their own voices against them in a disconcerting fashion, to compel them to clam up.

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I want one.

I just tell them to shut up. Real fun with little kids in the grocery store. I want a car mounted one to drown out annoying music from other drivers.

Is the manufacture of that product carbon neutral? Has it been tested for noise pollution, environmental impact, and is it UL certified? Does it need FDA approval?

:)

What's it weigh? Looks heavy.

Hey Paul, water is heavy too. But some things are worth their weight. :)

So what happens if two opposing sides use these against each other? Would it be a verbal Cold War?

Or what happens when some crazy SOB figures out how to mess with the programming and *amplify* their argument? Screw the Carbon Flame War; it'd be a Carbon Flame Nuclear Holocaust!

"Or what happens when some crazy SOB figures out how to mess with the programming and *amplify* their argument? Screw the Carbon Flame War; it'd be a Carbon Flame Nuclear Holocaust!"

And hopefully put the thread out of its misery in the process. ;=)

Edited by ouzel on 03/01/2012 20:44:50 MST.

Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) -- so no worries, when these units are used against each other -- then EVERYONE will be compelled to shut up.

"So what happens if two opposing sides use these against each other?"

Positive feedback

Progressively louder until they both explode

"Is the manufacture of that product carbon neutral? Has it been tested for noise pollution, environmental impact, and is it UL certified? Does it need FDA approval?

:)"

Uh Oh the EPA got involved all progress is dead. :)

Soon to be bolted on the walls of embassies and corporate headquarters that experience public protests.