/2012/03/02/speech-gun/
{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2012\/03\/02\/speech-gun\/","trash":"","name":"speech-gun","parent":"","title":"Gun to stop people from speaking","date":"2012-03-02 10:09:16","filepath":"posts\/20001332_speech-gun.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/arxiv\/27620\/\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1333\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"gun\" src=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gun.png\" alt=\"gun\" width=\"107\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/arxiv\/27620\/\">Folks in Japan<\/a> have developed a handheld device (aka. gun) that can stop a remote person mid-sentence. \u00a0The research group capitalized on the oddity of people having trouble speaking when\u00a0their\u00a0own voice is heard with a fraction of a second delay.\n\nThis is, in fact, a speech impediment. \u00a0There are people that get feed back when they talk and hearing their voice can derail any train of thought. \u00a0If you haven't seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003UESJH4\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=zygmy-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003UESJH4\">The King's Speech<\/a><img style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=zygmy-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B003UESJH4\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>, you should. \u00a0It is a great movie and it has a scene where the protagonist plops on some headphone to block the sound of his own voice and the stutter is absent.\n\nFor all those conspiracy nuts, consider this device in the hands of big brother and how he can\u00a0squelch\u00a0any political rally with the non-lethal pull of a trigger...\n\n<em>read more about the speech jammer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/arxiv\/27620\/\">MIT<\/a>.<\/em>"}}
