Designed by engineers at Kagawa University in Japan, this creepy robotic mouth simulates the human voice by using an air pump, artificial vocal chords, a nasal cavity, a resonance tube, and a microphone. Check it out:

Oh, and naturally, it didn’t take very long before people on youtube used the footage to create some pretty awesome mashups, such as this one featuring the voice of the trolololo guy.

[Via Neatorama]