I was amused to see that two Japanese researchers won an Ig Noble Prize this week at a presentation at Harvard University. The SpeechJammer records a person talking up to 30 meters away and then sends their speech back at them, with a 0.2 second delay. This causes the person speaking to stutter and then stop speaking.
The YouTube video below was posted by Kazutaka Kurihara, he silences noisy students in a study hall and during a professor's lecture. He has suggested that his device could be used as a speaker timer to stop people from speaking too long at the podium. I could not imagine the embarrassment of being "SpeechJammed".
I can think of a few instances where I could make use of this ...
Grant
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