Newson was "blown away" by the attention to detail manifest in everything in Japan, from temples and gardens to swords and flowers; he wandered into a 20-story hardware store one day, enthralled by exquisite tools and bins of rare screws.
Today's top stories: The hardware stocks' slide continued.
Eight months on the shipping schedule has slipped — a very common story for hardware startups.
The story of hardware startups is one of many optimistic and often exciting ideas, but also a lot of failures, as the realities set in of developing supply chains, trying to find the right economies of scale and of course finding customers for your shiny new gadgets.
Apple has released its latest quarterly earnings report, and the hardware story is one that you might have heard before: For the most part, the company sold more devices year-over-year, with the notable exception of the iPad, which continues to see slight declines as it did last quarter.
Talk story about Barson Hardware, a store which replaced a computer store on The New Yorker's block... Barson Hardware is the name, after the man who founded the operation many years ago-Barney Rubin, his daughter-and now shop co-owner-Anita, his wife Rose, and his son.
Anyone who encounters technology daily -- that is to say, just about everyone -- has a story of new hardware or software, at work or at home, that is poorly designed, hard to use and seemingly worse than what it was intended to replace.
"People take them out on their bike rides to keep foreign bodies out of their eyes," says Gibbs. "I allow my students to go to the local hardware story to buy high-impact safety glasses.
His story – and his hardware – is inspiring and his rearview is well worth the price, especially for biking gearheads like me.
