If Johnny doesn't take to the violin, don't fret. A new study challenges the widely held belief that music lessons can help boost children's intelligence. "More than 80 percent of American adults think that music improves children's ...
Tags: music, children's grades, music education
This may be remembered as the year smartphones became boring. Although high-definition displays on smartphones have gotten bigger and their cameras have gotten better, the pace of gee-whiz innovation has dawdled. Smartphone and software ...
Michael Lippert, of Saft Energy Storage Systems, explains how the SmartRegion Pellworm project will enable an island off the North Sea coast of Germany to increase self-consumption of its own renewable energy Pellworm Island presents a ...
Tags: Blueprint, SmartRegion Pellworm project, Michael Lippert
Throughout 2013, we've enjoyed the incredible support of our loyal readers from the retail consumer electronic industry and the team here at Appliance and Digital Retailer thank you, one and all, for your readership. On our final day of ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, TV
Automotive electronics and emerging technologies are at the forefront of the connected car experience. Advancements in these technologies and ever-changing lifestyle demands are shifting the driving experience. The international ...
Tags: Continental, emerging technologies
The District of Columbia has selected Citelum to manage and upgrade the city's 71,000 street lights to a state-of-the-art, sustainable system. The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced today that it has awarded Washington's ...
Tags: LED street lighting, Street Lighting, Lights, Lighting
Interface Hospitality has hired two new sales and marketing executives. Named to the newly-created positions, Director of A&D Market Development, are Philadelphia based Melissa Tully, who is responsible for the Eastern U.S. and Barbara ...
Tags: Tully, Marcy, Interface Hospitalit, Decoration news
President Obama signed a memorandum directing the federal government to consume 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020, more than double the current level. Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO and founding chair of the U.S. ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, renewable sources
Medtronic's latest iteration of its Activa neurostimulator is not just a therapy device, but a brain activity information recorder that could provide insights into such devastating neurological disorders as Parkinson's disease. The first ...
Tags: health, Medtronic, neurostimulator, neurological disorders, Parkinson
There was a time when people truly believed, "Home is Where the Heart is!" But now, since the advent of technology, nothing remains the same. The advancement of technology and our growing attachment for hi-tech appliances and gadgets, has ...
Tags: House Wiring, Processing Machinery, Electrical, Electronics
There were some unexpected new entrants into the Cloud space this year, according to IBM Global Technology Services Cloud computing executive, Dean Evans. He said this happened while smaller cloud providers saturated the market further by ...
Tags: IBM, Cloud Market
A leaky metal roof at the U.S. Naval Academy’s McDonough Hall has been transformed into a glass roof delivering abundant daylight and energy savings into the historic building thanks to dynamic SageGlass® and its ability to tint ...
Tags: SageGlass, construction
With the aim of empowering the textile and clothing industry of Pakistan with more knowledge and enabling the entrepreneurs to make smarter choices in order to reap the benefits from the expected European Union (EU) Generalised System of ...
Tags: ITC, Pakistan, Textile&Clothing Sector
Taiwan is the world’s leader in LED manufacturing with 41 LED fabs representing over 21 percent of the world’s capacity — more than any other region (according to SEMI Opto/LED Fab Forecast report). Meanwhile, worldwide ...
While some people may think their minds are being numbed by scrolling through images of cats playing piano, or dogs eating biscuits, one computer is doing the same and getting smarter. A computer cluster running the so-called the Never ...
Tags: Computers, 'Common Sense', Image Analysis