Jabra Extreme
$128, from authorised dealers

HEAR even your soft-spoken grandmother over the babel in a noisy club. This headset has the smarts to suss out the din of the environment and the caller's voice to automatically adjust the earpiece volume.

Not one but two microphones are squeezed into this Bluetooth gizmo to pick up both the user's voice and background noise.

Together with Jabra's Noise Blackout Extreme technology, they cut out background noise.

Jabra says this souped-up version of Noise Blackout cuts out twice as much background noise as before.

All these in a 10g gizmo that it says is comfortable enough to be worn all day long.