Available in black since last December 2009, the ATH-ANC1, a nice overhead noise canceling headphone made by Audio-Technica will be available also in White in Japan by the end of May.
The ATH-ANC1 QuietPoint, equipped with active noise-canceling technology intends to be your ideal travel companion. Thanks to its built-in ANC circuitry, it claims to have achieved reducing the background noise by 85%. Activation of the noise-canceling function requires disposable AAA size alkaline battery to be placed in the control box and of course needs to be switched on when desired. It will operate as stereo head phones once this function has been switched off (on passive mode) with no need for battery power. Last but not the least, the product is offered together with both an airline and a stereo adapter.