"The warren of small stores selling paraphernalia such as resistors, capacitors, LEDs and soldering irons became a symbol of Akihabara over the years." ... par

"The warren of small stores selling paraphernalia such as resistors, capacitors, LEDs and soldering irons became a symbol of Akihabara over the years." ... paraphernalia, allright. How does that journalist imagine he could write this article without any of them? :-D