Last week, in San Francisco, CEA Technology & Standards held a series of technical sessions.

The fact is, our industry – and our country – thrives on the ability to innovate.

Part 3 of 3 – Executives
By Mark Chisholm
 
In our final post on the 2010 CE Hall of Fame inductees, I’ll be focusing on the executives whose leadership and guidance promoted growth for the consumer electronics industry as a whole. Previously, we looked at the inventors and engineers and the founders and retailers that make up this year’s class of inductees. To see a full list of this year’s inductees and to view full bios for each inductee, please visit the CE Hall of Fame page on CE.org.
Some of the …

Part 2 of 3 – Founders and Retailers
By Mark Chisholm
Continuing our coverage of the 2010 CE Hall of Fame inductees, today I’ll be taking a look at the founders and retailers whose dedication helped grow the CE industry into what it is today. If you missed yesterday’s post, be sure to read up on the engineers and inventors featured in this year’s class of inductees.
First up we have Joe and Rachelle Friedman, founders of J&R Music and Computer World in New York City. Joe and Rachelle opened their first …

Part 1 of 3 – Inventors and Engineers
 
By Mark Chisholm
Last night at a ceremony held at CEA’s Industry Forum in San Francisco, CEA inducted thirteen of the consumer electronics industry’s finest into the CE Hall of Fame. From engineers to executives, these individuals contributions to our industry have helped make it what it is today. In this first of a series of three blog posts on the CE Hall of Fame’s 2010 class, I’ll introduce the inventors and engineers portion. The technical expertise of these individuals served as the …

i-stage Finalist Videos – Part 4 of 4
By Tara Dunion
Here are the finalists Pomdevices, LLC and Sonomax Technologies, Inc. previewing their products:

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i-stage Finalist Videos – Part 3 of 4
By Tara Dunion
Here are the finalists Anybots and Oxygen Audio previewing their products:

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i-stage Finalist Videos, Part 2 of 4
By Tara Dunion
Here’s finalist Eyecon Technologies previewing their product:

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i-stage Finalist Videos, Part 1 of 4
By Tara Dunion
Monday’s  i-stage awards competition kept the audience rapt as they experienced the latest technology innovations about to hit the market.
Mavizon’s AutoBot was the fan favorite and the overall winner, with Tremont’s nPower PEG taking second place.
Here are the winners Mavizon Technologies and Tremont Electric previewing their products:

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What’s on your wish list?
By Rick Kowalski
It’s that time of year when market researchers everywhere want to know what’s on consumer wish lists for the 2010 holiday shopping season. The CEA Market Research team receives questions about this topic as early as May. I’m not joking! We’d love to have the answer to that question so early in the year, but generally, we get our best glimpse of the shopper mindset in mid-October.
CEA’s Director of Industry Research Steve Koenig and Chief Economist Shawn DuBravac are presenting the results …