Rattles. Coughs. Sneezes. Other people’s music. PA announcements. Idle conversation. Shouting. The sound of a train speeding along the tracks. Aircraft noise. Your wife. Your girlfriend. The telephone. These are all sounds you avoid having to listen to with a pair of noise-cancelling headphones. And Panasonic is giving Giz readers the chance to win one of ten pairs of the HC55 noise cancellers this week.
The HC55s will cancel out 88% of ambient noise which is enough to let you block out most of the annoying sounds that fill our days. They come with three different earpiece sizes, and the stainless steel design will match pretty much anything.
To win a pair worth $149, all you have to do is tell us in 25 words or less in the comments below, “What noise would you most want to cancel out?” Entries close Friday at 5pm.
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JB
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 11:47 AMI’d block out the noise of the truck that’s about to hit me at 100kms an hour.
Joe Leanza
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 3:16 AMThe night sounds of my roommates, so I can sleep soundly and not have red eyes in the morning.
Mark
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 11:23 AMThey would block out the constant sniffling of a certain co-worker every 45 seconds for 9 hour days, 5 days a week. It’s a condition.
Peter Pianta
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:49 PMLike, I would, like, totally, like, cancel out, like, the totally inane conversations of like, teenage girls, like on the Trams in, like Melbourne…like…
Paul Lowe
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 11:49 AMI would like cancel out cabin noise when travelling in aircraft.
I find the noise of the engines add considerably to travel fatigue.
thanks
Peter James
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 11:49 AMI would like to cancel the noise of obnoxious peoples headphones, that I can hear clearly even from two metres away, and my boss’ voice!
bungs
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 11:50 AMThe noise in the office when I am trying to finish off some work – incl. phones, pigeons on roof, air-con buzzing…
Rodney
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 11:51 AMHmmm let me think… noise I want canceled out… crying babies and the nagging toddlers :)
Jason Yang
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 11:56 AMMy top of the list most wanted noise to cancel out would be the screaming noise from badly behaved kids usually happens at Maccas playground.
Eddie
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 11:57 AMThe office noise around me so i can hear my music clearly!
Raffe Gold
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 11:58 AMThe never-ending sex of the neighbours next door. Depressing to hear someone older and uglier than me getting more sex than me
Ian Brown
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 11:59 AMEvery Saturday night, the two guys upstairs get drunk playing Diana Ross. Then, without fail and with utter clarity, they take turns fisting each other.
Steve
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 11:59 AMI’d like to block out the constant and annoying din of tinnitus. I have to keep turning the volume up to block it out. Grrr
Indefinite Implosion
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:02 PMI would cancel out the noise made by THE CHOPPA!
Indefinite Implosion
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:03 PMI would want to cancel out the noise of the whizz, hurr, rattle and bang of my computer…
Benjibuls
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:03 PMBlock out the painful Ack-ack-ack of jack hammers, saws and nail gun thuds of new apartments going up while I try to freaking work!
Aaron Divitini
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:03 PMNoises of the world, to be enthralled in the wonders of the music
Steve
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:04 PMhmmmm, then i wont be able hear the wife nag and the kids winge and fight, ahhhh Gizmodo Bliss
Funky J
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:04 PMCatching the tram with rich private school kids, but being from a poor public school myself, I’d like to block out their wonderful manners, fantastic habits, and superb command of the English language.
Dharmit
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:05 PMAir plane internal noise when you are flying. Though it is small but 100 paper cuts hurt a lot.
Kevin
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:06 PMThe wife, while she *attempts* to play LittleBigPlanet. The screaming is too much for any man.
Ale Brooks
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:06 PMI would cancel out the sound of the Indian fella who sits next to me, b/c no matter how funny that accent is, 14 hours a day just gets old.
Dr_Stef
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:08 PMI would block the sound of people asking me to turn down my music because they think its too loud,
overpowering their loud phone conversations.
Dr_Stef
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:14 PMTrue story: Someone in the train asked me once to turn down an already halfway turned down volume, because they were annoyed they could not hear themselves talk on the phone. Even though I and everybody else in the train could hear her fine ;).
I just replied: Nah sorry.. Musics too awesome.
Sam Brady
Friday, September 18, 2009 at 1:02 PMThe same thing happened to me once. I was listening to something poppy through earphones and the girl behind me asked me to lower the volume. I switched to classical music at half volume and a few minutes later she angrily complained to the bus driver, who angrily complained to me. All in all it was a pretty enjoyable bus trip to Toowoomba…
Kevin Pereira
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:08 PMI’d love a pair to cancel out aircraft noise, especially the screaming babies. I seem to get one of those on every flight >:-|
Richard
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:09 PMHopefully these headphones will block out all the other noise I can still hear with my el-cheapo eBay headphones!
Steve
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:11 PMi would cancel out all that Horrible Melbourne Tram noise that stops me from reading the wonderful news that appears on Gizmodo to and from work each day!
pat
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 12:15 PMXavier Michelides on Rove last night. That was the longest 3 minutes of my life.
Andrew Hobbs
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 6:36 PMthis!