DAVID GREENE, HOST:
Good morning. I'm David Greene. I'm not sure how you eat ramen, but do you ever have a friend say, slurp it, be loud, it's how you do it? Well, the instant ramen company Nissin is taking no chances. They have created a noise-canceling fork. It directs your smartphone to play a masking sound. There's a before-and-after video. Here's normal slurp.
(SOUNDBITE OF NISSIN'S "BEFORE AND AFTER" VIDEO)
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (Slurping).
GREENE: Here's with noise cancellation.
(SOUNDBITE OF NISSIN'S "BEFORE AND AFTER" VIDEO)
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (Slurping).
(SOUNDBITE OF WHITE NOISE)
GREENE: So that's better? It's MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.