Welcome to the Future of Noise Canceling

You might be perfectly satisfied with the noise canceling in your life. Maybe you’ve got ANC headphones for your commute and you’ve found just the right soundproofing materials to finally stop the inter-apartment wars with your neighbors. In that case, don’t read on. We’re sure you won’t be interested in earbuds that can tune out arguments and tune in nature, or thin, affordable, sound-absorbing wallpaper. Not to mention the work that's being done to help people who are hard of hearing, and what's coming next in soundproofing. Yes, the future of noise cancellation is looking very interesting indeed.

But when we think about noise cancellation, what’s our baseline? If you want to block out all sound and go total cocoon, you can pick up a pair of Sony or Bose cans and get pretty close to that. But considering their ubiquity and ...