Seems like it wouldn't work at all on people who are determined to yell (i.e.: anyone yelling in the first place). They'll just hear themselves a bit stupid (like how the rest of us hear them all the time, lol).
Scientists Create Gun That Physically Stops You From Talking
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This won't work.
Anyone capable of interrupting a conversation to the degree that using this devise would be necessary, can block out ambient noise (i.e. you speaking) to the point that they would be able to easily ignore this device.
Anyone capable of interrupting a conversation to the degree that using this devise would be necessary, can block out ambient noise (i.e. you speaking) to the point that they would be able to easily ignore this device.
This is absolutely true (except the partisan politics B.S. that someone shoehorned into a topic in which it had no place.) As someone who works in broadcast media (specifically talk radio) I can say that the effect is informally called "mix/minus" and it happens when you feed a studio signal back to a remote site with the remote audio. Current audio tech allows you to eliminate specific audio sources to feed back so there is no mix/minus, but all it takes is 1 engineer forgetting to turn down one feed any you have to learn to deal with it (until the next break when you can go Bale all over the engineer.) Rush probably did learn to ignore mix/minus at some point, but it wouldn't work on him now because he is almost entirely deaf and would not hear the delay signal.Thomas Lyons said:
But...
It's not the same thing. Val is correct, it is disorienting in a way that would indeed render most people unable to converse normally. I once saw a mix/minus delay trigger a migraine headache that rendered someone comatose. Conversely I've seen a sportscaster just keep going (although he did flip the bird to his producer.) It's not something you deal with in teamspeak and until you actually experience it you would have no chance to even tell if you could teach yourself to ignore it. I've learned to ignore it, but can't do it for an extended amount of time. I'm an epileptic and mix/minus has triggered a petit mal seizure before.Tropico1 said:
This. This has to be the best possible use for a device that makes it difficult for a person to speak properly. I'd actually watch the show just to see a bunch of pretentious, self-aggrandizing actors stumbling over sentences like a toddler blubbering for a Pop Tart that's just out of reach on the kitchen table. [My rant about the Academy Awards would usually go here, but I'll let you imagine my wrath this time.] If Japan can make an attachment that causes them to drool at the same time, the Oscars would be the highest rated show ever.weirdguy said:
Well if someone really wants someone to shut up so much they would buy a gun that forces them to be unable to talk, I doubt they'd have much problem with intimidation.samsonguy920 said:
The problem with that is that the soundwaves will have to be produced at nearly the same time for that effect.Ralen-Sharr said:
Which is difficult in speech, as it's unpredictable and the frequencies go all over the place.
It works fine with static equipment, such as machinery.
When you talk, as the article tries to explain, you don't only "talk". You listen to your own voice to properly control it. One of the ways this becomes appearant is if you put on headphones with loud music and start talking to someoene - most likely your voice will be much louder, as you can't hear it properly yourself.Voltano said:
In most people this goes automaticly, but once you listened to a deaf person trying to speak you'll know what I mean.
This technology takes what you said and throws it back at you only a few milliseconds later. This messes up that feedback system in your brain and it becomes hard to speak.
Fayathon said:
Yeah exactly. I would bet everything I have that this gun would not be able to stop me obnoxiously speaking if I wanted to. I mean yeah I may not be able to speak properly or regulate volume but I would get used to it. (who needs to do those things when they talk anyway)
Well is a terrible idea, also ridiculously easy to make yourself - it's only an 'invention' cause the idea is stupid to begin with.
if someone's so arrogant that they need to physically be forced into not speaking, I get the feeling that stumbling over their words won't stop them.
the stopping talking is entirely voluntary, the gun doesn't stop you talking, just make it sound funny to you.
if anything, it would make the problem worse since they... would... just start... talking... like Spock... to pronounce... things... correctly.
the stopping talking is entirely voluntary, the gun doesn't stop you talking, just make it sound funny to you.
if anything, it would make the problem worse since they... would... just start... talking... like Spock... to pronounce... things... correctly.
Whatever happened to social control? Is it really so hard to just *tell* someone to shut up? This passive aggressive nonsense is really getting out of control. If this is a result of Japanese being too polite for their own good, STOP DOING IT!
Cheerio.
Cheerio.
Awesome device now where can I buy one. Not joking this would make movies so much more fun to go to.
No.
Really, no.
I already experience bullshit because of the fact I speak loudly, and the fact I tend to go off on tangents- now people can just surpass jeering and insulting me and silence me utterly.
Really, no.
I already experience bullshit because of the fact I speak loudly, and the fact I tend to go off on tangents- now people can just surpass jeering and insulting me and silence me utterly.
Five years from now, this will be made to look like a regular microphone and sold at Spencer's for $25. Congratulations, science!
Just gonna say, this won't stop anyone from talking. It would be annoying to talk with this thing in your face, but well within the realm of possibility. I know, I've had a sound check where this pretty much happened. It gave me a headache, but it didn't stop me.