How to Build a Speech-Jamming Gun

This is a simple idea, and immediately remind me of the mocking game many of us played as children. You wanted to irritate your sibling/best friend, so you simply repeated everything they said back to them. Depending on your tenacity and persistence, this could be a game that brought at least one of you hours of fun.

But think about it for a minute. Wasn’t all that repetition of what they were saying a bit taxing? Quite a lot of work, actually. So imagine if you had a device that’d do all the work for you. That’s right, it’s almost as if technology has rushed into a void that you’d never have realised existed.

Imagine my delight when I found How to build a Speech-Jamming Gun. You can once again have all of the fun you experienced as a child without any of that strenuous mocking. As the site describes:

‘The idea is simple. Psychologists have known for some years that it is almost impossible to speak when your words are replayed to you with a delay of a fraction of a second.’

Now, I must admit: the headline is a bit misleading. The article doesn’t, in fact, tell you how to build one of these contraptions. But I’m too grateful for the knowledge that this Speech-Jamming Gun exists to bicker with particularities.

Please don’t ask me where to get one. I’m too busy thinking of the people in my daily life I’d relish using it on.

2 comments

  1. How much did I HATE that mocking game? The most. THE MOST. My brother used to drive me INSANE with that.

    I would be SO MAD if you used this on me.

    You’re totally going to get one and use it on me. That’s like a challenge, now, isn’t it. Dammit.

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