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...

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...