These guys make webbing, cords, buckles, plastic and metal hardware for sporting goods, outdoor goods, travel gear.

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Back to the bricks and mortar (well, plastic and metal) hardware, there's pretty much everything here you need to mix your way up from beginner to gigging DJ.

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Today we got to see the thing in action at the Pepcom event here at CES. The hardware is a small black plastic box that should plug into most cars sold in the US after 1996.

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What look like supersize bento boxes contain neatly packaged plastic bags of bolts, clips and other hardware.

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Since January, when he became the first outsider to be named chief executive of Newell Rubbermaidin its 99-year history, Galli has painted a dazzling vision of the future of this sleepy maker of plastic tubs, Curver wastebaskets, Waterman pens, Kirsch window hardware and a panoply of other underwhelming wares.

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