This week, the Innovation Movement, CEA's grassroots campaign to promote innovation, featured a fascinating interview with Kevin Strong, CEO of FutureDash, a company whose core product is EnergyBuddy™, a small, low-cost and easy-to-use stylish gateway that connects to your home network and will help you to monitor, manage and see how your family uses electricity around the home. Strong discusses what inspired him to join a startup focusing on clean energy...

Ultra high-speed networks have been in the news this week as both Google and AT&T have announced plans to bring lightning-fast, gigabit-speed Internet and television service to Austin, Texas as early as next year. In the January/February issue of CEA’s flagship publication i3, we covered Google’s progress in launching its network, dubbed Google Fiber, in Kansas City. “Users will visit a website less often if it is slower than a close competitor by...

In "The New Old Age" blog, devoted to older adults and caregivers, The New York Times yesterday highlighted the sluggish growth of senior citizens online. Today, 54 percent of people 65 and older have used the Internet, according to the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project: Which certainly represents progress. When Pew first began tracking Internet use in 2000, only 13 percent of seniors were online. But it remains a fairly anemic number...

  When it comes to the awesome potential of technology: “We’re still babies crawling right now," said Gary Shapiro president and CEO of CEA. He spoke last month with 105 Conversations, a web series that interviews some of the most influential people in the world. Where will we see innovation? Everywhere. But there are big opportunities in robotics, machine-to-machine technology, nano-technology, 3D-printing and wireless  health.

  Yesterday, Google released a video of its in-development product Google Glass, which it filmed at a demonstration for developers last month. The presentation was created to “help developers and entrepreneurs start imagining what they could do on Glass.” Glass is an intriguing take on wearable technology. At CE Week this summer in New York, which is presented by CEA, you can see more exciting new technologies during the FashionWare Show, which will showcase a...