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BY HIROHIKO NAKAMURA STAFF WRITER

2012/09/23

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photoThe SpeechJammer, a speech-disrupting device, won the Ig Nobel Prize for acoustics. (Provided by Kazutaka Kurihara)

Some people talk just to hear their own voice, which makes the SpeechJammer, winner of this year's Ig Nobel Prize for acoustics, as ironic as it is useful.

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