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* When it comes to clothes shopping, we prefer to be hands on. Rifling through clearance racks is a delight. For many nonclothes items, however, we revel in catalogues, especially those that arrive each month from Sharper Image Design, San Francisco, Calif., a sure cure for the post-holiday blues.

With ice hockey and tennis being our twin passions--though often leading to twin pains--the first item that drew us was the Programmable Percussion Massager with Heat ($99.95). At 3,000 pulses per minute, with a choice of four heat attachment massage heads, variable speed control, and extra-long secure-grip handle, this beauty helps ease post-game aches and pains in no time.

There are certainly no aches and pains attached to the Digital Voice Recorder ($100), which easily fits into a shirt pocket.. Four and a half inches long, less than an inch thick, and weighing a mere 1.6 ounces, this voice-activated gem can run up to 10 hours on a single AAA battery. Recordings can be organized into three separate folders, each capable of storing as many as 99 messages. You'll never forget anything again.

Finally, for bathrooms (or other small spaces where a room-size air filter...