It's a sad day for people who habitually kill time by trying out vibrating chairs they have no intention of buying. Sharper Image, the hottest store of 1996, which filed Chapter 11 in February, is pulling the plug on its remaining stores; it'll be a catalog and online-only operation from here on out. Among the…

Recent reports from local real estate trackers put the amount of office space relinquished by local companies in the last quarter at the highest it has been since the third quarter of 2002 — 436,933 sq. ft, according to commercial broker CB Richard Ellis, or the equivalent of nearly all the space in the Transamerica…

Wow, so I'm apparently getting blasts from The Sharper Image and they're inviting me to "demo" their new and insane and wonderfully useless products. This is some sort of LASER THEREMIN I think? Should I do it?

Sharper Image chairman and former CEO Jerry Levin resigned today, just short of two months after the company declared bankruptcy. Not satisfied with just how far he's helped run the icon of '80s yuppie excess into the ground, Levin reports that he and some investor buddies will buy some or all of the company's…

The news that Sharper Image, the San Francisco-based gadget-vending chain, has filed for bankruptcy has sparked a wave of premature nostalgia. Naive sorts think that Chapter 11 means a swift farewell to a company. Nothing of the sort. Sharper Image, buoyed by a loan from Wells Fargo, will stay open, continuing to…