What about bluetooth?

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I don't trust things that go over the air. WiFi barely ever works.

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YMMV, but I'm quite happy with my Plantronics Pulsar 590A.

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I used to own a few of them, but pretty sure that bluetooth audio is a worst audial expirience a man can get :^) Due to low power consumption requirements they are too quite and A2DP profile sound quality is unaccepatble. You whould better get any china-made 10$ wired headphones, than any 100$ wireless bluetooth :)

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Google says: http://www.thanko.jp/noisecancel_headphone.html

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I've gotten around this the cheap way on my iMac with a little attenuator from Radio Shack.

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Fucking A, it doesnt exist man, trust me, I've looked. Took me long enough to stumble unto some USB speakers. For those reasons and a work around for a busted earphone jack until I just buy a new laptop. Might wanna look into that bluetooth though, not sure about it personally although I'd rather wait for the newer bluetooth technology to hit which wont be for quite some time.

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In a bizarre, end of the internets scenario, you will note that the second search on google for "USB noice cancelling headphones" is this post.

Beware the deep recursion.

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Google always ranks theire employee blogs high as a way to boost morale

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My dad has a pair of Bose noise canceling headphones that run on batteries. I know that's not what you want, but try the company's website, they might have something.

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What about noise isolating headphones/earphones, rather than active cancelling headphones? I can make a few recommendations in that regard.

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Nope. Does not fit requirements. :-)

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Yeah, what mart said. USB won't help you with the GSM squealing with any of them I've ever seen (and they all blow).

You used to have a USB DAC thingy. Can't you just put that or something similar sufficiently far away from the PC (and hopefully phone) and plug regular phones into it?

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All the USB headphones I've used had the same problem.. It wasn't until I got a 3g phone that it finally went away, oddly.

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For what it's worth, the work machines have really noisy headphone jacks in the back while the jack on the front is quiet. Or maybe I have that in reverse -- just try the other one and see if it makes a difference.

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Laptop on shuttle.

Noise-canceling makes the bus noises gone, but it just makes the cellphone RF noises all the more loud. Can't enjoy the music when every 30 seconds or so it makes some random buzzy noises.

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Unfortunately, in my experience, it doesn't matter how your headphones are connected, the GSM chatter still breaks in. I've used USB headphones, it's the cable acting as a resonant antenna.

In other news, I have to hate you now, since you work for the competition :(.

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