CEA-CEDIA Committee Approves Home Theater Video and Smart Grid Installation Standards

The Consumer Electronics Association ® and the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association’s ® R10 Residential Systems committee today announced new standards

GUEST COLUMN TECHNOLOGY AND HOME SALES

Today’s home buyers are often thinking about a home’s technology advantages as much as they are its floor plan, square footage and location.

Sound improvement

It may be called "multimedia" or "home entertainment," but for the last 10 years home entertainment technology has been mostly about video, ever-larger screens and, now, 3-D video.

Dolby Bets Atmos Theater Sound System Fills Theater Seats

Dolby Laboratories Inc. (DLB) , the sound and video pioneer, is introducing audio technology designed to transform moviegoers’ listening experience the way 3-D and Imax have altered what they see.

Under-the-radar job growth

Three Chicago-area science and technology whizzes are busy learning their trades in fast-growing careers. Their work ranges from designing a comedian’s interactive stage set to mapping a health plan for trees to figuring out why the universe is rapidly expanding.Their ease at winning projects, internships and jobs reflects little-known growth industries and a new education reality: Young people ...