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Two Japanese inventors have a gadget that can stop someone from talking. The they call the Speech Jammer literally people’s speech. It a speaker from the words out of his or her mouth. Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada from Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology the prototype "gun" that is pointed at someone from a and stops them talking. It does not physically the person it hits. The technology is based on medical devices used to help people with speech problems such as stuttering. It uses a called Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) that plays someone’s voice back to them at a split-second .

Messrs. Tsukada and Kurihara said they wanted to something that would stop people talking too much in discussions. They wrote: “We have to and obey rules for proper turn-taking. However, some people to lengthen their turns or deliberately disrupt other people when it is their rather than achieve more discussions.” They added: “We utilized DAF to a device that can jam physically unimpaired people's speech whether they want it or not.” Other of their device include maintaining silence in public libraries and peace-making. “There are still many cases in which the negative aspects of speech become a to the peaceful resolution of conflicts,” they said.

 

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