Thursday, March 1, 2012

How to Build a Speech-Jamming Gun - Technology Review

Technology Review By MIT


Japanese researchers build a gun capable of stopping speakers in mid-sentence.
kfc 03/01/2012

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Kazutaka Kurihara at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tskuba and Koji Tsukada at Ochanomizu University, both in Japan, present a radical solution: a speech-jamming device that forces recalcitrant speakers into submission.

In tests, Kurihara and Tsukada say their speech jamming gun works well: "The system can disturb remote people's speech without any physical discomfort."

That has important implications. "There are still many cases in which the negative aspects of speech become a barrier to the peaceful resolution of conflicts, " they point out.

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