I have never seen a store filled with more useless, overpriced junk than the Sharper Image. However, someone gave me a $40 gift certificate for the Sharper Image, and it’s been moldering in my wallet for about a year. So far the best use for the card I can think of is re-gifting it to someone else, but I know there must be a better way.
If you had $40 to spend at the Sharper Image, what would you buy?
There’s a 16-LED floodlight on sale for $35 or a gizmo to jumpstart a car by connecting to another car via the cigarette lighters, for $40.
Of the half-dozen items that actually under $40, I’d go with the " Dual-Time Travel Alarm Clock." It looks like it may be useful.
I love Sharper Image, but I am a gadget freak. However, $40 ain’t gonna be much of a “spree” in there.
I bought this for my brother on his birthday. He loves it. You would have to fork over an additional $19.95 (plus tax) to get it, but it could be fun.
Everything I’ve ever purchased from them sucked and was sent back, but if you HAVE to get something, http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/productview.jhtml?sku=WY521 the shower radio alarm clock sounds good. I love to sing in the shower.
One of these, or one of these would be a nice clock.
I’m sure my cats would appreciate one of these.
For $10 more (plus S&H) you can get an Uptight Asshole Medallion.
The super-fancy body pillow. But I’m pregnant.
Robopet! Or Robosapien!
Okay. Maybe not. My BIL got my husband a Robosapien for Christmas last year. We forgot about it until a few nights ago.
He is such a dude.
HA!
You could put together an entire outfit.
If there’s a neurowife or neurogirlfriend, you could get her one of these.
Can’t portable vibrating massagers be used and enjoyed equally by both sexes? Or are you implying something? 
Thanks for the suggestions so far. Anyone else know of any neat items?
Btw, that site is really iRRITATING the way that all their products are labelled “iSomething.”
My shower head, the FilthBlaster9000* was purchased from Sharper Image for about thirty five bucks or so and it was the best damned purchase I’ve made in a VERY long time. It takes low water pressure and turns it into something fabulous by adding air in or something like that–all I know is that I went five years walking around in the shower trying to get wet and now I have to dial that bad boy down to prevent it taking skin off. Definitely a worthwhile expenditure!
*NOT what Sharper Image calls it, duh!
nice present for guys who don’t use pocket protetors anymore
The best thing about The Sharper Image catalog is that when I find something I want, I can go online and get it for a lot less, even including S&H!
So I went ahead and purchased the SUPER BRIGHT 16 LED flashlight.
It’s a $40 flashlight the size of my face, how could I go wrong, I figured. Well, it’s a pathetic piece of fucking garbage. By “super bright” they apparently meant “a birthday cake at the retirement home provides more illumination.” You know those miniature LED keychain flashlights? I think ONE of them is brighter than this enormous hunk of junk. The only good thing about it is its emergency hand crank.
Maybe I should have gotten an automatic lighted pepper mill instead.
Fuck the Sharper Image sideways with a rusty crowbar. :mad:
Oops! Didn’t read down far enough.
Sorry about that not-so-bright light. Any way to exchange it for that pepper mill?
Naw, don’t feel bad. If you’d’ve gotten the pepper mill, you’d’ve found out that it was just as big a piece of junk. I vaguely remember buying something there years and years ago, knowing full well it was overpriced, but thought to myself, “oh well, it looks cool”, and the damn thing broke after, like, a month or something. To be honest, I don’t even remember what it was any more, only that I’ll never get anything there again.
Really, you’re quite lucky. You got to have this learning experience with someone else’s $40!!!