Amazon is, has been, and will probably always be known as an e-commerce giant first and foremost, but its in-house consumer electronics production division is growing like no other, both from a quantity and a quality standpoint.

After getting in on the ground floor of the e-reader category that's essentially become synonymous with the Kindle lineup, Amazon expanded to the tablet market and then single-handedly created what is now the tech world's fastest-growing industry. For the last few years, the company has focused primarily on flooding the smart home market by ...