The controversial wannabe model, Poonam Pandey, has finally stripped
for the King of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan, after the actor’s Indian
Premier League ‘Kolkata Knight Riders’ won the final match against
‘Mumbai Indian’ last night.
Pandey rose to fame during the last year’s cricket world cup when she
said that she will shed all of her clothes, if her India wins the cup.
On public demand the model posted her topless picture on twitter with
text asking her fans if they would like to see ‘Poonam Pandey Without .
Poonam was addressing a press conference where journalists asked her
repeatedly about fulfilling her promise. She unzipped her jacket during
the conference to reveal black bikini, much to the surprise of
photographers, media reports said.
"The partial strip act is just a trailer, I will definitely fulfill my promise," Poonam told reporters.
The 20-year-old model was in the news last week for posting two
videos showing her undressing for a magazine on her Twitter and Facebook
page.
Its principle is quite simple when you think about it (I wonder why no one thought of it sooner?) It is a well known fact amongst psychologists, that a person is incapable to continue talking if his words are played back to him with a delay of a fraction of a second.
Well, taking that into account, Japanese researches, Kazutaka Kurihara from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tskuba along with Koji Tsukada from Ochanomizu University, have come up with a simple device which consists of a microphone and a speaker, which, when pointed towards someone who you think won’t stop rambling, will record their words and play them back with a delay of 0.2 seconds.
Tests have shown that this ingenious device is quite effective: when aimed at a person, it causes them to stop talking, without causing any physical discomfort for the annoying speaker (unlike yourself, whose ears were being rampaged by the talking).
Are there any downsides?
Well… further tests have showed that the speech-jamming gun could easily shut up a person who was carrying out a “reading news aloud” task, but sadly, when it comes to spontaneous monologues, results were less impressive.
Thankfully, there is hope for all of you out there who are already thinking you should go out and buy it before that annoying aunt comes to visit. Apparently, the “tool” is more effective if the delay with which the words are repeated varies.
1. Reduce stuttering
Tests have also shown that if used with subjects who have a speech problem causing them to stutter, the speech-jamming gun can help them be more aware of their phrases, reevaluate their own speech and eventually, stop stuttering all thanks to this simple invention.
2. Maintaining silence in a library
Remember what it’s like to go to the library in order to find a quiet environment to study for that really hard test you have coming up, but when you get there, there’s a bunch of people who mistook the library for a bar? Well have no fear, the “shut up gun” is here!
The new invention can be used to assure silence in a public library, but what would the “shh-ing” librarian do if her job is taken by a gun?
