SHRP Sharper Image Corp (MM)

The Sharper Image Corporation (NASDAQ:SHRP), the specialty retailer renowned for selling cutting-edge products desired by those who want to have it all, is now the exclusive retail source to offer the ZERO-G Weightless Experience to consumers who want to do it all. This is the ultimate trip -- the sensation of space travel, with the ease and comfort of a private airplane excursion. The weightless experience takes participants on a flight that delivers the rare and coveted sensation only astronauts have been privileged to experience until now -- true and sustained weightlessness. A specially configured aircraft takes participants on the very same series of parabolic maneuvers used to train astronauts for zero gravity in space. And Zero-G is the only company in the world approved by the FAA to offer this phenomenon to the public. �ZERO-G extends our offerings beyond the most technologically advanced products to include life-altering experiences that further enrich consumers� lives,� stated Steven A. Lightman, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Sharper Image. �This is yet another innovation that strengthens our reputation among consumers as the foremost retailer of revolutionary products and pioneering experiences that will positively impact their lives.� Over the course of the flight a specially configured Boeing 727-200 takes the travelers on a number of parabolic maneuvers allowing them to experience various degrees of gravity. Once back on earth, a festive re-gravitation celebration complete with champagne toasts and awards is held. Passengers get to keep their flight suits, along with personalized photographs and a DVD of the unforgettable experience. Flights are regularly scheduled throughout the year, departing from either Las Vegas, Nevada or the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Each flight can carry up to 35 passengers. To reserve the ZERO-G Weightless Experience, visit any Sharper Image store, call The Sharper Image catalog at 1-800-344-4444 or visit www.sharperimage.com. Flights are open to passengers as young as 12 years old with parental participation. There is no upper age restriction. The cost of the trip is $3,500 per person plus tax. The price does not include travel to or accommodations at either of the departing locations. For more information, including flight schedules, and to book the ZERO-G Weightless Experience, visit www.sharperimage.com. About Sharper Image The Sharper Image is a specialty retailer that is nationally and internationally renowned as a leading source of new, innovative, high-quality products that make life better and more enjoyable. The Company's principal selling channels include 186 Sharper Image specialty stores throughout the United States; the award-winning Sharper Image monthly catalog; and its primary Web site, www.sharperimage.com. The Company also has business-to-business sales teams for marketing its exclusive and proprietary products for corporate incentive and reward programs and wholesale to selected U.S. and international retailers. Forward-Looking Statements This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are based on the Company's current plans, expectations, estimates, and projections about the specialty retail industry and management's beliefs about the Company's future performance. Words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates" or variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict and which may cause the Company's actual results and performance to differ materially from those expressed or forecasted in any such forward-looking statements. Some of these risks and uncertainties are discussed in the Company�s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2007 under �Risk Factors�. These risks include, among other factors,�the success of its new business strategy, its ability to continue to find or develop and to offer attractive merchandise to customers, the market potential for products in design,�the success of its advertising efforts, changes in�business and economic conditions, risks associated with its retail store, catalog and Internet operations, and changes in the competitive environment in which it operates. Unless required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements. However, readers should carefully review the statements set forth in the reports, which the Company files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly its Annual Report on Form 10-K, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and its Current Reports on Form 8-K.