Stressed? Try the Screambody

NewMediaBeijing.org: ScreamBody is a wearable space for screaming. When a person needs to scream but is in the office, classroom, looking after children, or in any number of situations where it is just not appropriate, ScreamBody acts as a surrogate lung allowing the person to let the scream out of their own body and into a body extension. ScreamBody silences the screams (or utterances of any kind) so the person may feel free to vocalize without fear of environmental retaliation, and at the same time records these for later release where, when, and how the person chooses. The vocalizations are played back out of ScreamBody by the user actually squeezing them out of its cushiony body — the harder the squeeze, the louder the recordings are played out. This act of release is important because to simply silence the scream would be to annihilate the deep communication and would leave the person feeling betrayed by the apparatus, rather than empowered and encouraged to get their voice into the world. It is hoped that after enough use, a person will no longer need ScreamBody but will instead be able to vocalize without fear or embarrassment.
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