ELAN has taken its lumps in recent years, particularly as a result of an overly long product development cycle for its ELAN Tools programming software. Now the company is hoping to put all that frustration behind them with the multi-tiered launch schedule of a completely new software, hardware, user interface, contr

With James Cameron's 3D extravaganza, Avatar , purported to have made $232 million from worldwide box office sales over the past weekend, Digital Projection picked the perfect time re-pitch its Total 3D Experience. Joining television manufacturer, Mitsubishi and home control innovator, Control4 at Manhattan's elect

You might have heard about this strangely named home construction project in Rhode Island called Green Life Smart Life. We’ve run articles about it a bit over the past year, most recently in regards to the challenges of using “green” wiring in a smart home. But last week was the first time I got to see the place in per

I’ve been writing and reading about CEDIA’s Industry Outreach Education and Registered Outreach Instructor Programs over the past couple years, but wanted to gain a much better understanding of what these courses are all about. So I asked CEDIA’s PR director Jamie Antcliff to allow me sit in on a class at the associat

CEDIA’s 2009 Electronic Lifestyles Idea Book is now available while supplies last.   This comprehensive publication features all the entrants of the CEDIA 2009 Designer Awards and is a great tool to use while discussing new installations with your clients. There is a limit of five books per o

I was pretty excited to find out on Tuesday (I was sworn to secrecy until the next day) that CEDIA was moving its annual EXPO convention back to Indianapolis in 2011. Hopefully by then the industry will be buzzing again and the energy that we all felt in earlier Indy years is there again. Of course I have a selfish r