WAIT, I CAN’T REMEMBER WHO I WAS THREATENING TO KILL ONE SECOND AGO

Dutch inventors are working on a sound system which will drown out chanting soccer hooligans by blasting their own screams back at them at a slight delay. Experiments found that a carefully timed echo of a crowd’s chanting played back to them would screw up their brains enough to make it almost impossible to chant insults and abuse at the players or opposing fans. However, the system if far from perfected, and most soccer clubs aren’t willing to try it out in their own stadiums. “If you frustrate an audience by making it impossible to chant, you need to be very careful how you channel their frustration,” said one of the researchers on this project. “If they stop chanting but start rioting out of frustration, then you’re worse off.” (New Scientist)