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.
[T&Cs]
Matt
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 6:39 PMI’d block out the tinny rattle of mobile phone speakers that seem to be blaring on every train these days
Troy
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 6:40 PMThe screaming baby that is just outside my window at work. I’m IT, Why do need a window?
johnny
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 6:41 PMyour mum.
Jono
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 6:46 PMI would cancel the constant and pointless rhetoric the public is fed by short term minded politicians who cant listen!
Jonathon
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 6:48 PMI would cancel out the announcements made by Connex about my train being late or canceled again!
Phillip Robbie
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 6:48 PMI would cancel out life itself, and enjoy only music for as long as i lived.
Alastair
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 6:50 PMSorry, what was the question? I didn’t hear you!
Andrew
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 6:52 PMThe voices inside my head …. or would these keep the voices in?
Peter Maher
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 6:55 PMthe noise on the school bus.
stoopid jocks!
William Solis Mendoza
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 6:56 PMOther people’s mp3 players, overly loud phone calls, screaming babies and bogans yelling to one another about the fight they got in at the pub.
Hguh
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 6:58 PMI’d love to filter out the sound of my next door neighbours’ shagging. I can hear that stuff clear as a bell through the wall.
Andrew
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 6:59 PMI would attempt to cancel out the ominous shriek that is my parents computer B.S.O.D.
Followed by mother’s shriek of “ANDREW!!!”
Michael Arentz
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 7:09 PMMy massive screamer of a neighbour who never ceases to remind me that she will always get more than I do….
Benny
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 7:10 PMI want to cancel out the school kids on the bus talking about music that is a copy off the last pop song.
Julian Doyle
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 7:14 PMI would like to cancel the noise of my colleagues ‘working’ so that i can actually get some done myself…
Kelvin
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 7:15 PMI want to cancel out the voice of Lucifer that speaks to me every waking hour of my life.
Cameron
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 7:29 PMI’de use it to block out the already low noise of the many Panasonic products I’de be sure to purchase if I win.
David Anderton
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 7:32 PMI would like headphones to cancel out the noise that is currently called popular music…
Jon
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 7:33 PMIf I had a pair, I would wear them during awkward silences.
Nic
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 7:35 PMI would use them to cancel out the gross sound of people sniffling and snorting phlegm on the train to work each morning!
Bert
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 7:49 PMCancel out my kids and their mates light saber fights. Pew, quarn, woooo, pew, curnk, argghh!
Matty D
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 7:50 PMI would like to block out the noise of my mother every time she tries to get me off TF2/Music, oh c’mon I just want a hat.
David Belling
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 7:55 PMThe voices in my head that tell me to burn things.
Piers Matthews
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 8:01 PMI’d like to cancel out the noise of my neighbours going at it hammer and tongs all hours of the day.
Francis
Monday, September 14, 2009 at 8:07 PMKanye West and his ego