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Crank up the Sound Soother 20! Break out the World’s Shortest Full-size Umbrella!

The Sharper Image filed for Chapter 11!

But don’t start hording those Wowwee Robopanda© Interactive robots just yet — The King of Catalog Overkill is still in the picture.

However, even the Philips 10.2-inch Digital Photo Frame can’t pretty the fact that medically-dubious exercise and massage devices just aren’t selling this year.

The company plans to close 90 of its 184 stores in a bold move to concentrate on their core businesses — replenishing landfills and destroying rain forests.

If Da Image were to go belly up, it would create a tremendous vacuum in the retail landscape — along the lines of the new Roomba 560.

Who else could provide so many duplicate catalogs filled with airport gift shop-quality electronics?

Brookstone? Bed Bath and Beyond? LAX?

Don’t make me laugh.