I miss getting on a plane and reading Skymall to see what batshit crazy stuff they had to sell. Anyone else?
The trip to sharper image was not complete until you got to sit in the massage chair.
The spirit of it still exists in temu ads. Turn off your ad blocker for a minute and you’ll be inundated with cheap plastic things that you think are great ideas and you’ll use once and forget about.
That’s a great point.
You can’t truly replicate the experience until you take those Temu products and mark the prices up 500% though.
Yeah dude that stuff always blew my mind as a kid. Browsing the real sharper image store then was a treat too. I got a skymall hot dog toaster one Christmas and it was amazing.
I used to love going into The Sharper Image and Brookstone stores at the mall when I was a kid.
I used to love going in those two stores to sample the massage chairs.
Here you go:
Yeah, they’re another good one.
I miss the Edge Company. It was like someone took The Sharper Image and slapped a medium-thick coat of 90’s rad on it with a mild focus on EDC-style pocket junk.
It sounds like a clone of Hot Topic but aimed at the raver crowd.
It was more of an edge lord vibe
A quick Google search shows both companies are still in business, so not much to miss? I imagine they are put SkyMall on some airlines
A ton of Sharper Image stuff gets sold at Walmarts in the “As Seen On TV” section.
Frys Electronics had like 1/4 of their store dedicated to this “As seen on TV” junk for a while before they closed down.
Wow. I didn’t even bother searching. Just assumed since I no longer saw it in the plane backseat they weren’t around anymore.
Wait, Skymall isn’t a thing anymore? Here I thought I was just picking shitty airlines…
https://www.flyingsmarter.com/what-happened-to-skymall
“SkyMall declared bankruptcy in January of 2015, but they were purchased in April 2015 and relaunched the following month as an online retailer. There was a plan to get back into planes but that never really happened. Today, SkyMall is still an online retailer.”
Huh, all online now…
I was more confused about what SkyMall even was. Even if I never went into one, I knew what Sharper Image was. I thought SkyMall must have been a regional chain.
Sharper Image style catalog in the seat back pockets on airplanes.
Yeah, I don’t fly if I can help it and I think frequent flyers overestimate how ubiquitous air travel is.
I got on a plane a few weeks ago and realized that I didn’t have headphones. I would have really liked something to read. AA does offer 20 free minutes of WiFi so I opened a bunch of tabs in my browser, but a skymall would ah e been read for sure.
I like seeing Sharper Image stuff in thrift stores. Take their stuff out of the curated experience of their old mall stores, and it’s obvious that it’s plastic garbage.
Nope, not one bit.
Not really. The world has changed so much that I don’t think there’s space for them anymore. But they were pretty great when I was a dumb kid.
I miss when the products themselves weren’t cheap garbage. Back in the early 00s they hit a stride of products that were cooler versions of products available everywhere else, same function, better form.
For like a minute then I watch a movie on my phone
Do any Canadians remember The Little It Store?
