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Sharper Image, the cutting-edge gadget store, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and closed half their stores. It’ll never be the same vibrant, toy store for grownups that it used to be. So tonight, with a Eulogy for Sharper Image, we turn to Fair Game tech reporter Ed Herro.

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