mr. gadget - ionic ozone air purifier

SETTING: you are an average rich American who enjoys the fruits of labor. One day--
Due to flood, fire, civil interference, overload of power grid and other reasons ---
The electricity in your house was cut off.
All your lights are broken and all your major appliances are turned into metal or plastic without life.
Also disabled is your Ultreo ultrasonic toothbrush, Tomalin ion hair dryer, audio and other 20 clock radios, ultimate human touch robot massage chair
Port desk lamp, Pyramat wireless game PC game chair 2.
1. iTower Omega stereo speaker system with iPod universal docking station, Shake 'n Take personal smoothies manufacturer and ion Breeze QUADRA silent air purifier with ion breeze silent electronic propulsion.
Stadium: why not spare 3,000 of your own-watt generator? Not your run-of-the-mill gasoline-powered unit--
The kind that spews smoke, sends out amazing rackets and has to sit in the yard and announce its noisy, contaminated presence to your teeth --
Neighbors who bite teeth and cut teeth-
But a silent, portable, emissionfree hydrogen-fuel-cell-
Sit quietly in the power plant in your living room and make a 10 hour squeaky sound
Each battery cleans electricity and makes your home an inexplicable island of light in your otherwise dark environment --
Invisible neighbors!
How about a mother living in a hurricane?
Her own unit, prone Florida, as a holiday gift?
Uncle Dan's other, in the social power crisis last summer, his power has stopped for four days?
Richard J. said, "Isn't this neat ? "
Telemheimer leans forward on a fire-spraying Grill at Santa Monica Airport, "with the world's first hydrogen-powered-fuel-cell-no-emissions-
Generator?
"He is pleased to add that he has been in contact with its inventors and has started a relationship if he can convince that person to reduce the retail price to $1,000 ---
Similar to gas-
Power generator--
He might be the first to sell this.
If Taylor's name doesn't sound the alarm, you might recognize his unlined face, sparse curls and bright, white, wide crown --mouthed smile.
He's in countless catalogues.
Advertising at night.
This is because he is the founder and long-term chief executive of Sharper Image, a national supplier of premium gadgets, and has a profound impact on the annual discretionary gift frenzy in the United States --giving.
His single has already flown.
The Cessna 182 engine from Marin County is equipped with enough electronic navigation and communication equipment for the Boeing 737 to discuss his future plans.
Before settling down on this beautiful Saturday of October, Taylor Heimer (Significantly highheimer)
To maximize feng shui, he changed his seat and announced to his lunch companion that the day was his 591/2 th birthday.
But surprisingly: His plan does not include a clearer image, and he was suddenly deported at the end of last year ---
In terms of a set with half and half tones-
By a deep cabal.
"Activist" shareholders.
The anger of Consumer Reports also strongly reflects his fall.
Instead, he is currently focusing on www. richard solo.
Small retail site com--three full-
Time staff, including himself. -
He launched it a few months ago.
He estimated he would sell more.
Esque products this fiscal year, return to the game after a year.
This is a shocking change compared to the previous prediction of Tyler. Holiday season.
At its peak, Sharper Image had nearly 200 retail stores, more than 4,000 employees, with annual sales of about $0. 76 billion.
But when he tracked Cobb's salad
His old company has a long history, but it is not very popular.
Crapshot for oil retail machines and more public deals
Taylor's quarterly sales
The approved blockbuster product is critical.
Holiday sales accounted for 40% of Sharp's revenue;
The other three quarters were inevitably unprofitable.
The special products, he says, are either in-
House or exclusive sales license.
"We created a Broadway musical," Thalheimer said . ""[We]
The dancers in the chorus are full, but we missed the stars and the main plot.
"These superstars, along with their own promotional plot points, have names: Turbo-
Beautician, razor, the most important thing-
You will see later--
Ion breeze.
As these projects proceed, the images become clearer.
So the eye of this holiday
Opening the door: after the company abandoned the company, its financial position fell faster than two dead durian.
When asked about his performance these days, he was either elegant or smart, not to mention that.
"Since I left a clearer image in last November, I am going through a very happy life phase," he said with a bright smile.
"Because I saw a lot of good things about the opportunities I got.
I don't worry about the destination either.
I'm not worried at Sharper Image.
I'm just worried about the process.
Work with people, find products I like, and be kind to others.
I'm really happy. "So sincere-
It sounds like Tyler. -
Or he's even better than advertising. -
When these words came out of his mouth, his audience was greedy.
Sharper Image's inventory of almost everything unique and irresistible was recently summed up by Joan storm, a long-term retail analyst now in Morgan bush, downtown Los AngelesA.
: "This is the most discretionary store in the mall. "That's Street-
First, even the second blush, no one needs to buy anything for sale in a clearer image.
If all the ultrasound glasses cleaners and remote controls work properly
The American-controlled helicopter model disappeared.
The whimsical inventory of Sharper Image's appearance means management can't assume that anyone will buy anything they sell.
The good thing is that these things are hard (mostly)
People who have everything and desperate people who shop for them.
Within the vertical scope of the United Nations
Essence, with Lumb-R-
Grip hook and Samurai Shark all-
Hand-held blade pencil sharpener (as seen on TV)
At the bottom, the Rockets Racing League team of Neiman Marquez is on the top, and the sweet spot for a clearer image is about three-
Several quarters along the way.
"This is the price I am most satisfied with," Thalheimer said . ".
His admirers say this is also his market segment, which he has almost a spiritual connection.
Tracy Wan, 18, said: "Richard has the ability to come up with what people want
Veteran of a clearer image of the year, under the leadership of Thalheimer, she has been working hard to become president and chief operating officer.
Even before they knew the product existed, he was aware of their needs.
In the 1980 s, this ability was particularly beneficial to Alzheimer's.
This is a decade of apparent excess. -of dollar-sign-
Embroidered sling, silk "power tie" and the Black Eagle of the figure.
In its ten years of formation, the armor, sound of Sharper Image
Telescopic light switch, home cover leather counter, retractable line of sight-
The equipped crossbows and new cordless phones and digital answering machines provide relatively elegant echoes.
Sales surged in the early years-
Death was almost stopped in 1990.
"That's when other stores catch up with us," Thalheimer said . " He refers to retailers such as Brookstone and Hammacher Schlemmer.
But neither he nor the clearer images are complete. The roller-
The roller coaster just started.
Now it's the end of October, and Taylor is driving his Toyota Camry to his home in San Francisco.
He said: "My mother always said: 'buy the cheapest house in the best neighborhood you can find. '".
The House and the House of oil heir Gordon Getty are located in the same fortress Highland block;
Roger Bennett, chairman and chief executive of Roger lee;
When Oracle's Larry Ellison is not on his yacht or in his other residence.
He lives full of Tyler.
Three months.
His second wife and their 21/2-year-
Old daughter, part more.
Time for two teenage daughters of his first marriage.
It can see the beautiful palace of art, if he can make the people of the Fort cut down an annoying eucalyptus, the Golden Gate Bridge.
The house is equipped with a swimming pool of $22,000 and a 5-
Car garage with two motorcycles and two motorcycles in Thalheimer (
His smart mini car will be ordered in early 2008).
It has a wireless Super AV system. -
$400,000--
Touch everywhere
Allows residents to control temperature, sound, lighting, electric curtains and any of about 20 plasma TV screens from anywhere in the house.
Another thing Taylor's mother likes to say, according to her son: "Dick has always wanted a new toy.
Once we buy it for him, he will get tired of it and want another toy.
"Tarheimer grew up in Little Rock on the Ark.
After graduating from Yale, he registered at Hastings Law School in San Francisco, but not because he wanted to practice law.
"I just want to know how the contract litigation works.
What is the law?
Because I thought: "One day, I will have a big business, and I will be at the mercy of a lawyer for the rest of my life.
He was also in law school, where he began selling photocopier toner and imitation IBM typewriter ribbons by mail order.
He named his company "a clearer image ".
On 1977, he visited the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and found a "stall" with a man inside.
The man sells a $300 Seiko watch for runners in Taiwan.
Serious jogger Taylor has reached an agreement to advertise for $69 at Runners World and mass science. 95.
He sold 50,000 vehicles in the first two years.
He bypassed advertising agencies and market research and acted intuitively, and within a few years he had monthly catalogues and stores across the country and flew to them by private jet.
He listed the company in 1987.
In 1991, at the height of Bush's 41 worst economic recession, this clear picture shows its first quarterly loss.
Earlier, he had decided that he needed to control his fate ---and licensing--
And started a clearer image design, a department that creates and brings patented products to the market.
Its first product is the PowerTie electric Tie Rack, which enables men to review their tie line in a mini tiedry-cleaner mode.
"It has a lamp and has to be silent so it doesn't bother your partner," Thalheimer said . ".
"I think that's the stupidest thing I 've ever done," says Chuck Taylor, a former GE engineering manager who brought in to lead design.
The company has since sold 200,000 vehicles.
A few years later, Taylor's iconic product for clearer images-Turbo-Battery-
Electric nose hair trimmer.
"Panasonic has something similar," cackles Taylor, "and they offered to sell it to us for $20.
We designed a better machine ourselves, made in China for less than $6 and sold for $60 as this is our "exclusive" product.
"In 1995, he visited the Hong Kong toy show and came back with the age of a thin Jetsonian version --old kids' toy.
Tracy Wan recalled, "I thought, 'Will people want this?
I think it might be fourth. quarter item.
Taylor Talks 30-
The monthly exclusive license for the shaver scooter, each with colored plastic handles and hubs, has set off a boom.
SHRP's share price hit $20 on Nasdaq for the first time in 1999. Then--
Good or bad, Square-
Taylor had another idea.
In his 1990 s, he decided that many people thought they needed air purifiers to remove dust, dirt, pollen and other contaminants from their homes and offices, and he hated portable purifiers on the market at the time, because their fans are too noisy.
He heard about a new technology that made fan-free purifiers possible and got permission to hire a scientist from Harvard School of Public Health to oversee health matters, 1996, launched a series of advertisements starring themselves.
The ion breeze retails for $349. 95.
It hit pay dirt.
2003, this product accounts for 40% of the company's revenue.
In 2004, the price of SHRP was less than $40. Life was good.
The long version of what happens next could be a good opera.
Short version: on October 2003, the consumer report printed the test results it did on the air purifier.
Ion breeze was rated as "invalid" in purifying air ".
According to Thalheimer and others in Sharper Image, the test methods used by Consumer Reports are rough and inaccurate compared to the ones they use when perfecting the product.
That's why he sued the consumer League in 2004.
The suit was dismissed before trial and Sharper Image was ordered to pay $500,000 for the legal costs of the Consumer Union.
Taylor said the lawsuit was dismissed for technical reasons.
The consumer League says nonsense.
A spokesman for the product said: "We have been testing the product for 71 years --"
Test organization.
We have never lost a lawsuit.
An article in the magazine's May 2005 issue said that, by the way, many air purifiers, although there are no government agencies raising any red flags ---
Ion breeze is the best-selling model-
Release a lot of ozone that may be harmful to people's health.
"This is an vendetta," said Taylor . "
"Our only mission is to protect consumers," the Consumer Alliance said . ".
Thalheimer said the sale of ion breeze due to bad publicity-
Profit margin of Sharper Image--
The rate of decline is much faster than expected.
Into the New York Cavaliers-
Hedge funds led by former CEO Jerry W. Levin. In April 2006--
Height of hedmania-
The Cavaliers scored 12 points.
The 8% share of SHRP requires a board seat and a comprehensive overhaul of the business.
Taylor said he thought he and the Cavaliers would be a good team at the time. -
He will provide expertise in product and marketing, and netswain will provide a keen eye on the financial side.
This is not very successful.
Levin hired a New York law firm to investigate stock charges.
Option backtracked, when the dust settled, Sharper Image revalued its revenue at $18 million and asked Thalheimer to pay $3 million. He did.
Levin fired tarheimer in October, gave him millions of dollars in severance pay and paid him $26 million for $9.
For the clearer image he still has, he shared one.
Since gaining control, the newcomers have suffered more than $0. 12 billion in losses and share prices have fallen to $1. 71. As of Nov. 26 it was $3. 22.
Agreed "friendly" 45-
The day notice of demolition was moved by Lai, Thalheimer Richard solo.
Com to Novato town in Marin County, turn into a five-
He built a bedroom-sized house.
This is not to say that we already know that it has completely disappeared, a clearer image.
At the time of writing the story, Jerry Levin made a very public purchase of shares worth $400,000 to express his confidence in the company.
It still has a lot of shopping centers, still has a lot of staff, still prints a lot of catalogues, and at the last glance, it's the only chain retailer that offers steak knives to its customers and used to need grinding and zero
Experience G, 90-
Minutes of flight from Las Vegas, including "15 parabolic maneuvers" and "re-flight"
After the "gravity Party"All for $3,675.
The hottest new product Thalheimer had to brag about as of the end of October was a revamped Japanese "Spider "--Man"-
Play theme slot machines with "Spider" clips
The Man movie after the owner inserts a non-currency token. The hydrogen-fuel-
No obvious progress has been made in the battery generator project.
But there's more to wait. A week-and-a-
Half late, Tyler.
Mail with major news: Earlier in the month, he met a woman at a stall at a large Hong Kong Electronics Fair (etcetera)
Since then, exclusive licenses have been negotiated for the world's first snapshot
Rechargeable lithium
The ion battery will double the call time for any Apple iPhone.
The Richard Solo smart backup battery pack approved by Apple will be available in December. 20.
$49 is needed. 95. Thalheimer--
Fans of the IPhone-
He was excited about the exclusivity he thought his company would enjoy four months before the competition caught up.
"After all," he said in a subsequent article
Call and say, "This is exactly what everyone wants to have. "--(
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If you cancel the headphones, you will find a huge pair of headphones on your head. . . Valet (
Drawer under seat, shelf for coat, Hook for Belt, tie)
For a gentleman who has it all-except a walk-in closet.
The runaway alarm clock (
Roll and hide when you press the nap button)
The peak of the evolution of the alarm clock, out of control is the advanced version of its early incarnation, spherical throwing-It-Out-the-
Window alarm clock.
Sometimes good ideas should be pushed until they become great.