IRONY DETECTOR

Instructions: Place text element in filiment holder. Reader speaks text into ID microphone. Compare color tone of quartz crystal to color coated irony eggs.

Theory: Irony is present in the human brain and detectable in the human voice but not present in text per se. Authors may intend irony and readers may recieve it but in text form and without a human vector the irony is said to be in "latent" form. Though irony cannot as yet be measured directly in brain waves, the human voice can be measured for minute amounts through the detector's rational audio continuum system. Advances in this technology allow the instrument to detect textual irony even in the voice of an "innocent "reader, that is , one who is unaware of the irony embedded in the statement.

Prospects: While irony is far too unstable to be "captured" and stored, with this detection device the artist forsees the large scale testing of canonical and non-canonical texts for meanings as yet undiscovered by either traditional or even advanced deconstructive methods.

Irony Detector