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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Tom Dougherty
September 14, 2009 at 1:22 PM
The ambient noise of millions of iPod users ruining their ears by using the white earphones that came free. Corners have to be cut somewhere.
Report PermalinkMalkers
September 14, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Kyle Sandilands and anyone complaining about how offensive he is.
Report PermalinkDave Saul
September 14, 2009 at 1:23 PM
I’d like to silence(cancel out)the screaming of the lambs.
Report PermalinkNathan Reed
September 14, 2009 at 1:23 PM
My office is adjacent to the server room. Its like being on a plane 8 hours a day. These headphones would restore my sanity.
Report PermalinkIain
September 14, 2009 at 1:24 PM
I’d like to block out the weird noise coming from the bonnet of my car, if I can’t hear it then it can’t break down.
Report PermalinkLarry
September 14, 2009 at 1:27 PM
To block out the insane people here, since I work in an environment similar to the show “The Office”.
Report Permalinkstevjosco
September 14, 2009 at 1:29 PM
Kids on the train telling stories about their sex-lives: ‘First BJ at 13′. WTF! I had only just discovered my hand at that age.
Report PermalinkMark
September 14, 2009 at 1:41 PM
ha their first BJ was probbably from Palmela Handerson
Report PermalinkJoe S
September 14, 2009 at 1:29 PM
I am a bloke living in a house sourounded by blonde females. PLEASE PLEASE free me from the “nail polish” chatter.
Report PermalinkJonathan Brown
September 14, 2009 at 1:32 PM
If they could block out any music from Short Stack ever entering my brain again, they would be MAGICAL…
Report PermalinkBen
September 14, 2009 at 1:35 PM
I’d like to cancel out the radio noise when someone turns it up in the car and you can’t turn your mp3 up any higher.
Report PermalinkKarl Fischmann
September 14, 2009 at 1:36 PM
I’d most want to cancel out the ridiculous cheesy ringtone that my boss has on his mobile; it drives me insane!!
Report PermalinkBeth
September 14, 2009 at 1:38 PM
I would cancel out the sound of my obnoxious boyfriend playing infamous for 8 hours a day!!
Report PermalinkMark
September 14, 2009 at 1:38 PM
The voices in my head. No head voices, I will not commit pubic indecency.
Report PermalinkRyan Malonda
September 14, 2009 at 1:39 PM
To block out ALL other sounds so it would be as if I were deaf and had clear music directly inputed into my brain.
Why: (I have a deaf friend who can plug his iPod directly into his hearing aid and he says it sounds like the music is in his brain).
Report PermalinkLex
September 14, 2009 at 1:39 PM
Cancelling the noise from people listening to apple’s shite headphones that pump more noise out than in. And my room mate exercising his mattress! Bleh!
Report PermalinkSean
September 14, 2009 at 1:41 PM
I’d cancel out the apple fanboys in my office cheering when an error pops up on my computer every once in a while.
Report PermalinkCC
September 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM
My housemate and his new girlfriend.
Report PermalinkJon Darren
September 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM
I’d block out the noise in my brain generated by inane social network updates!
Report PermalinkLochlan McBride
September 14, 2009 at 1:43 PM
The school girls on the bus!
Report PermalinkPeterE
September 14, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Various high pitched whining noises like aircraft, babies, my children when I change the TV to the news, my wife when the lawn needs mowing.
Report PermalinkBryce
September 14, 2009 at 1:43 PM
The sound of my beautiful discreet voice. It’s so wonderful that even the dogs from three suburbs away start barking appreciatively whenever I sing.
Report PermalinkPaolo
September 14, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Noisy college students babbling non stop in the bus for 1.5 hours everyday when I go to work.
Report PermalinkMatt Liu
September 14, 2009 at 1:48 PM
i would cancel the sound of the kid sitting next to me playing justin timberlake thinking its cool
Report PermalinkAndrew
September 14, 2009 at 1:50 PM
The constant and incessant “clickety clack” of keyboards around me at work. Nothing but sweet silence or music for me.
Report PermalinkChoppaer
September 14, 2009 at 1:51 PM
There is only so many times I can listen to the wife watch “Twilight” before I want to kill my 40″ Samsung LCD.
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