Screamotron 3000 snaps a picture whenever you scream. For therapy


Scream Portraits by Billy Hunt from Billy Hunt on Vimeo.

There is a new invention for the stressed out or angry individual: the Screamotron 3000. The device is a renovated karaoke boombox that snaps a picture when it hears you scream.

Billy Hunt, a commercial photographer and the inventor of the unusual device says it’s a therapeutic way to tap into the amygdala, the part of the brain that processes emotions and memories.

“Some people scream inward and some people scream outward … and some people go to crazy town,” Hunt told NPR. “I find it interesting how human emotion plays out.”

 Screaming is considered therapeutic in some scientific circles. For example, Psychology Today reported on Dr. Arthur Janov’s primal therapy that claimed screaming and sobbing can release suppressed hurt from childhood and eliminate mental illness.

 Also, humorous inventions have been dedicated to therapeutic screaming, such as ScreamBody, a backpack looking device that “silences the user’s screams so they may feel free to vocalize without fear of environmental retaliation,” at work or in public areas.

ScreamBody is  “designed to be noticed,” and “acts to call attention to the social repression addressed” instead of  going virtually  unnoticed like other devices such as  hearing aids.   Kelly Dobson, the inventor of the device, does not want to cover the individual’s anger but wants people to notice the impact of stress on the individual.

Helium reports that depression is anger turned inwards and that “stress, anger, and anxiety play interchangeable roles in the brain, all affected by the frontal lobe of the brain.”

Check out these other interesting anger and stress-reducing practices.

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Kamaria Monmouth