Cute and elegant headphones for girls

Are you female? Do you feel women aren't being adequately represented in the headphone industry? Have you secretly been longing for pink headphones with a bow and jewels and a color palette straight from a Lisa Frank drawing? 

The headphone industry, much like the video game industry, has been known to dabble in reinforcing gender stereotypes. The Fiore line of headphones, by Radius, is just the latest awkward attempt to reach the frighteningly alien female demographic. There are two headphones in the line: the HP-HWF31 (Elegant) and HP-HWF11 (Cute) by Radius,

Here's a run-down of their selling points: 

• 10mm/6.4mm dynamic drivers (for Cute and Elegant respectively).
• 98dB/100dB sound pressure level (for Cute and Elegant respectively).
• 16Ω  impedence.
• 3.94 feet of cable.
• Won't snag your hair or mess it up.
• Come with a clip, which is shaped like a jewel-encrusted ribbon.

At the end of the month, you're free to purchase Cute for $27 and Elegant for $18 (on the Japanese market). For a mere $45 investment, you could buy both for a lady friend, then say something like, "Now you're both cute and elegant!" Then you can spend the next awkward 15 minutes explaining no, that's not how you meant it, and that no, you didn't stop and think how unprofessional she'd look to the partners with pink, bejeweled headphones.

[Via CrunchGear]