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...

For years, we've been hearing about smart homes, but such discussions are usually highly abstract. What is a smart home? What kind of technology does it have?   Look no further than to HGTV Smart Home 2013 in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., as an amazing example of what a smart home looks like.   Using CEA’s TechHome Rating System, HGTV built the first ever high-tech smart home that meets consumers demand for anytime, anywhere access, meeting the wiring requirements...

Each week, CEA features the story of an “Innovator of the Week” on its Innovation Movement website, social media channels and in its “Innovation Conversation” newsletter (which you can receive by filling out the form on the homepage).   We now have an opportunity for you to share your own story and a chance to be chosen as one of our featured innovators!   Sharing your story of innovation and the American Dream is simple. Visit the Innovation...

Last week CEA and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI) ® announced a new, technical “CRT Challenge” to identify financially viable, environmentally conscious proposals for using recycled CRT glass. This CRT challenge is a crowd-sourced technical competition to find new uses for old CRT glass, a powerful way to dispose of old TVs and monitors. The winning solution will be chosen based on economic and environmental benefits, and CEA will award $10,000 to...