So how is this possible? Professor Kurihara explains that it is based on the principle that when we talk, we listen to ourselves in order to confirm that we are speaking correctly. You could disrupt their speaking bringing peace and quiet back into your life. Or even better, the person at the work meeting who has gone way over his allotted speaking time. You could aim it at that person in the library who insists on yammering into a cell phone with no regard to the surrounding people trying to get in some quiet reading time. You only need to aim a laser beam at the mouth of the speaker and then shoot!
Although still much in the process of being researched, this handy item succeeds in shutting people up! Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu Women’s University in Tokyo created this new device. It took the brilliance of two research scientists with PhDs in Information Science and Technology to come up with the SpeechJammer. Good news! There is a way to shut people up harmlessly and with the simple aim and fire technique of a gun. You could probably get away with that in your personal life (although you might not have any friends left afterwards), but work related meetings are particularly querulous, where you have to listen to endless reports, where nothing is decided, and where all you want to do is get out of there, or at least take a nap. But the worst talkers are those who drone on and on concerning the most boring, mundane topics.Īs adults, we all have to put up with a certain amount of polite listening, even though we would really like to run out of the room screaming from boredom. It is forgivable for someone to go on at great lengths if the content is captivating.
The best talkers are people who keep it short with something interesting to say.