The Sharper Image, the upscale retailer known for its air purifiers, vibrating chairs and other high-tech gadgets, has fallen on hard times. The company says it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Matthew Kelley is a subscriber and fan of Consumer Reports magazine. But he also loves his Ionic Breeze room air cleaner from Sharper Image Corp. So when Consumer Reports’ October ...

Upscale retailer Sharper Image is closing all of its retail stores and liquidating $50 million in inventory, though it will live on as an online, catalog and direct-to-retail brand. Sharper Image ...

DISPUTE: Sharper Image is suing Consumer Reports over a review of Ionic Breeze purifiers. -- PHOTOGRAPHER: Ken Hively Los Angeles Times Ken Hively -- Profile of Sharper Image company. Detail photos ...

Sharper Image Corp. has agreed to discount its high-tech gadgets by more than $60 million and make several other concessions to settle a class action lawsuit alleging the specialty retailer misled ...

Consumer Reports magazine is taking renewed aim at a popular air purifier made by The Sharper Image two months after it fended off a libel lawsuit filed by the machine’s retailer. The magazine reports ...

Sharper Image Corp., known for its robotic vacuum cleaners and massage chairs, said Thursday it expected a fiscal first-quarter loss of 28 cents to 32 cents a share, greater than analysts had forecast ...

Retailer Sharper Image has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing declining sales, three straight years of losses and litigation involving its Ionic Breeze air purifiers. The San Francisco ...

The Washington Post is running a story about the Sharper Image’s ‘Ionic Breeze’ air fresheners, passing on information from Consumer Reports that details a dangerously high level of incidental ozone ...