Speech Jammer Forces People To STFU

Taxi drivers doing the Saturday night shift, barmaids in old man bars and people with lonely neighbors everywhere rejoiced today at news of the "SpeechJammer"--a gun, that when pointed at people, stuns them into confused silence.

"The device works by recording its target's speech then firing their words back at them with a 0.2-second delay, which affects the brain's cognitive processes and causes speakers to stutter before silencing them completely," reports news.com.au.

While it can stop you from forming a coherent sentence, it cannot stop you from making garbled noises like "errrr" and "aaaahhhh" while you struggle to figure out what the hell just happened. 

The researchers say it is completely painless. What a shame.