What looks like Short Circuit with high-spec military hardware hits close to 50 markets this coming weekend, including the US, Mexico, the UK, Russia, Germany and France.
With an influx of great hardware hitting the market, Grand St .wants to help surface some of the best.
As new hardware hits the market, sales escalate for a few years, typically peaking after three or four years, then begin to fall off as people anticipate another new machine.
That said, I'm afraid they might be spreading the "ultrathin" moniker a little thin (13.3″ screens?), but I'll withhold judgment until the hardware hits.
Instead, this year it will be all about the fall — with new hardware hitting just in time for the formal launch of iOS 5.
While Amazon notoriously keeps sales figures around its products close to its chest, there have been signals that the affordable Echo speaker has turned out to be one of the company's hardware hits, following the total flop of its Fire Phone and a re-organization at its hardware R&D group, Lab126.
Then, a transition to a scene that requires dramatic, un-fettered action and boom, a Stuntronics double could fly across the space on its own, calculating trajectories and striking poses with its on-board hardware, hitting a target dead on every time.
Apple is a company made up of hardware hits.
Not too long ago, Nintendo was printing money every month after landing two hardware smash hits in a row, the Wii and the DS.
