Innovation not only drives the consumer electronics (CE) industry, it’s also at the heart of industry efforts to support environmental sustainability and advance energy efficiency in ways few other manufacturing sectors can match. With more than 20 years of experience working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s ENERGY STAR program, our industry has found that voluntary, market-oriented and consumer-facing policies and programs are superior to regulatory...

Your elected officials need to understand the connection between technology and policy to make educated decisions concerning American innovation. CEA’s CES on the Hill event, which takes place next week in Washington, D.C., is an educational experience for our elected officials on Capitol Hill that features products from more than 20 companies, large and small, that demonstrate some of the most cutting-edge technologies today. Innovation is bipartisan, as is our shared desire...

  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...

A few weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook teased a big announcement scheduled for April 4, 2013. Speculation circled about a Facebook phone, an idea that has been teased by Zuckerberg for some time now. Finally, the announcement day has arrived, and while early predictions of a Facebook phone aren’t entirely correct, they aren’t entirely off, either. According to TechCrunch, Facebook plans on rolling out a program that integrates Facebook with your Android OS, simply...