By Sarah Myers
Here’s the third and final part of the CES On The Hill exhibitor videos:

Video 1: LG illustrates the dangers of texting while driving with its Don’t Text and Drive Simulator at CES on the Hill.
Video 2: MAXSA’s Skip West demonstrates the company’s alternative energy solutions.
Video 3: Google representatives talk about the company’s technology related to captions on YouTube.

By Sarah Myers
More exhibitor videos from last week’s CES On The Hill event:
Video 1: Qualcomm showcases its mirasol® Display Technology during CEA’s CES on the Hill.
Video 2: XStreamHD CEO gives CEA’s Sarah Myers an overview of their technology during CES on the Hill.
Video 3: Dave Arland with the Open Mobile Video Coalition talks to CEA’s Sarah Myers about mobile DTV at CES on the Hill.

By Sarah Myers
Last week, CEA hosted its inaugural CES on the Hill. The event, which attracted more than 400 attendees including Members of Congress, their staff and media, featured the latest consumer technology innovations.
Check out these videos to see what our exhibitors had on display:
Video 1: enTourage displays it’s Edge – the world’s first Dual Book –at CES on the Hill.
Video 2: Motorola talks about its Renew green mobile phone during CES on the Hill.
Video 3: Skype executives demonstrate the Skype network at CES on the Hill.

By guest blogger, Elizabeth Latham, LG Mobile Phones
Seventy percent of us are guilty of it*.  Mobile phones, while a lifeline to friends, family and our professional worlds, are commonly the cause of distracted driving. An independent study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute concluded that, of all the ways to use your mobile phone on the road, texting has the highest degree of risk.  According to the study, it is 20 times worse to text message while driving than to not use your mobile phone. Despite the statistics, mobile phone …

By Sean Murphy
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This week CNET reported that Sony had delivered the floppy disk’s last rites.
At least with music and movies, you can explain to the younger demographic how these types of entertainment used to be presented:  the concept, however silly to insouciant eyes, of cassettes or compact discs, or VHS tapes are at least explicable. Anyone can understand, or at least appreciate, that this was the way old school rolled: we didn’t do digital.
But try to explain to someone under the age of, say, twenty, that once upon …

  By Megan Pollock
Last week, I attended the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas. It was a great opportunity to step outside DC and hear first-hand how broadcasters feel about the work going on inside the Beltway. And to say they are not pleased is the understatement of the year.
CEA has had many good things to say about the FCC’s National Broadband Plan. We are pleased with the critical goal to free up an additional 500 MHz of spectrum in the next 10 years. We are excited …

By Colleen Lerro
It used to be that accessories were seen as an afterthought. They were simply an add-on or a little something extra to go with the core product. Times have certainly changed as accessories have not only increased in popularity over the years, but have become essential to making our electronics work the way we want them to.
Adding our favorite colors and unique style to our electronics is just the beginning of what personal tech accessories offer. Accessories enhance the use of the core product, increasing its functionality, …

Jessica Boothe
What do consumers really want when they ask for “green”? CEA recently conducted a survey to measure consumer perceptions. Not surprisingly, the most common terminology associated with being green is recyclable (97 percent of consumers said they were familiar with the term) followed by energy efficiency, organic, and global warming (93 percent respectively). Consumers showed less fluency with new terms and concepts like smart grid (only 28 percent said they were familiar with the term) and carbon offset (36 percent).
Consumer electronics products ranked well below the most commonly …

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By Joseph Gizzi

One of the major tenants of living a sustainable lifestyle is knowing from where and how far your products have come to reach you. Many people now choose to eat locally, monitor their carbon footprint, and try to reduce their energy consumption.
As a doctoral candidate at MIT Media Lab, Leonardo Bonanni devised a way that, as he says, we can all become the “custodians of materials,” keeping public record of where our products are sourced and how they travel to reach us. His vision became the open …

By Tara Dunion
More than 400 folks from Congress and the policy community attended last night’s inaugural CES on the Hill in the historic Eastern Market in DC. Exhibitors included Audiovox, AT&T, Best Buy, Kodak, LG, Microsoft, Motorola, Panasonic and Qualcomm, Samsung, Schlage and Sony.
Here is an event photo (courtesy of Dealerscope) and a video describing the event featuring CEA’s Senior Vice President of Events and Conferences Karen Chupka.