Now, just as I was enjoying some pictures of cool headphones released over the time and what have they become (Sennheiser, Bose and the like), here pops in a piece of news which ruined everything: the Transformers headphones.

Not that this couldn't a priori have been a very cool thing, but I was really expecting something either toy-like or god knows what sophisticated piece of high-tech. Unfortunately and much to my distress, I lived a great disappointment as I have had the misfortune to check them out...

Takara (I can't even tell if they are Japanese or Chinese) have thought it's very cool having another Transformers-series thing around and decided it was high time for some Transformers headphones. And if these earpieces were just some "tribute" edition headphones, all in top-quality materials and delivering top-shelf audio as well, things would have truly rocked and I am sure the diehard Transformers fans would have spent big bucks on them.

Instead, the producers went for the crappiest materials and the dumbest design possible. Top quality finish - forget it! Some cool design - get lost! Nice, caressing sound coming from them - I strongly doubt it! All that enchanting experience from a good pair of headphones - gone!

As you can unfortunately see in the pictures, the producers have only managed to produce a ridiculous piece of pseudo-tech: some round, silly-looking ear pieces out of which some parts move and get out just to form a crappy robot-like shape. I really can't imagine myself wearing such "sucko-mucho" stuff or having them all "robotized" on my desktop: I am pretty sure my ears will hurt in the first case and that they would never output enough volume to be considered proper desktop speakers.

Besides the $35.85 price, the most hilarious thing about these "transphones" was the warm recommendation to use them in conjunction with the $89.95 MP3 player coming as well from Takara. Funnier are this MP3 player's modes: the compact, "Cassette Mode" and the expanded "Robot Mode". Yet, the MiniSD card is not included and no specs about card memory limits are given! Cool, huh?

If you happen to find some $126 in your wallet and think of buying these two ridiculous things, have a second thought and go buy yourselves a beer and a steak. One thing is sure: I'd get very angry should someone gift me with them!

Misfortunate photos credited to Takara.