You can do a lot of things you do with your phone. Send messages, make calls. Take pictures and record videos. A lot of things were doing with technology on a daytoday basis but in a handsfree way. You can control with touch and voice. Holding up a phone in front of our face, holding up a camera is not experiencing the world around you fully. If you were to take a picture right now, how would you do it . I would tap the glass on the side and say ok, glass, take a picture. I just took a picture. And where is it stored . Its stored in my glass and what i can do if i want, i can turn on the screen again. You can touch right here i could share the picture on the social ned network or email. Or afterwards i could download all the pictures they saved and look at them on my computer or my phone. You can toggle and people will get all the pictures that youve taken. If youre out and about you can capture what youve seen at that moment and then go back and experience its it again. What are some of the potential policy concerns using google glass . People have asked us about everything from what is the right to the public. How should people. Right now were adjusting all of our policies and really making djustments based on the people [indiscernible]. Were hoping to and one of the concerns here in congress has been privacy. Thats right. Thats one of the issues that people raise. Concern about how its developed. One of the things is were not going to allow things like [indiscernible] until we know be they can that can done. So likewise, wherever questions arise, we try to develop sets of ules and try and develop etiquette, rules about how to apply them. If somebody was wearing prescription glasses, could they have google glass with the prescription glasses . They can. I mentioned earlier we have a couple of different models. We currently have a model so that whoever wants to wear the glass over a prescription can actually do that. I like that model a lot. When do you think well see these on the market . Were still trying to work out the timeline. As i mentioned, were still currently in the prototype phase so i dont have anything unfortunately that i can share about when it will hit the market. In the meantime, i encourage folks to join our experimental program. Jennifer bernal is policy analyst with google. Thank you. And now well introduce the nfl today to congresswoman from Washington State bennett. Microsoft is one of your constituents, right . And i used to work for them many years ago. I was the Vice President of Telecommunications Business and windows 95. How do you explain the significance of microsoft to seattle and the state . Microsoft change things early on with a new innovator and helped create a new industry and now its a very large company, a Large Employer in our region so its had an incredible impact not only in our region but inspiring many new companies in our region. What are you doing here . Seeing all the new technology. There are a few companies here from my district but also, technology is so important to policy now i think its right that we have members of congress here. Were learning about new technology to support the community but also we understand how technology is impacting the way we live. Congresswoman, youve been here two or three years, whats your opinion of the policymaking process . To ompared tos policymaking have industry, its slow. Were not good at technology. We dont keep it up to date. We have a lot of things where things have changed. Privacy technology is a good example. Policies are still in place from 197 or copyright laws from 1976. We need to do a better job of keeping policies up to date with the way people live and work today. How do you do that as we look at policy, being a former tax administrator as well as a tech person, things like sales tax, marketplace fairness taxes and policies. We have issues with privacy, issues with intellectual property. The way we shopped has changed a lot. Ecommerce is a big, big player. We need to make sure that we have that ongoing conversation and we have voices that have experience in technology to ensure we put the right policies in place. As a member of the Judiciary Committee are you working on these issues . Absolutely. As working on copyrights well as some tech policy like marketplace fairness act. Does the other washington understand this and vice versa . I think that theres a people get the names confused because i think were the better washington now than Washington State but there is obviously an important connection back and forth in terms of understanding ow policy impacts all of our power Business Community and there is an important dialogue going on back and forth. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Very important. Most of us have traveled back and forth to have competition. This is a satellite that is developed priorly by corporation. I would like to hear about it. Theyre doing a fantastic job but they cant do everything. They do a great job of [inaudible] what we do is data. Ment with additional we dont have enough atmospheric data in our forecast. When those planes fly, they stream realtime dat ai to us data to us. To our satellite network. And we take all the International Data and then the special data that we capture and put it all together and it enables us to make higher resolutions. Wow. Would you Say Technology is connected to airlines or will you be incorporated with noaa now . Obviously we need updating. Sure. To capture l is specific data. Youre probably familiar with the Weather Bureau and when you look at all the data, whether s satellite data or others, we replicate the weather balloons. They only get launched once every 1 hours. It misses important dat every 12 hours. It misses important data. If we could capture that data all day and all night along and we long and we do that by putting sensors on planes. Theyre streaming data up in the satellite back to our data system anywhere in the world we get that data in under 15 seconds and now we can take that supercharged data and add it to the weather balloons and satellite data and put that into more advanced Weather Forecast models. With higher resolution has days ible] this is five out. The difference in having the data to get a better start on the forecast. Now, we know that the update of data as weve come along that weve been able to locate a lot of within a picture. Sure. Sometimes it doesnt come to me. Is this speeded up some and does it more identify exact lines more than just area . So how many additional enhancement of funds will you ed to make this more usable, more common . So that we cannot only save lives but also save time . Well, we capture data all over north america. And we share that data with the f. A. A. They did a fouryear study using the data to determine that not just four weeks but four years, season to season, how much better it was and our conclusion was just putting our data into their models gave them 50 more accuracy. You and i dont care about statistics. We care about events. We want to know if theres going to be a tornado or where is it going to be, what time is it going to strike and how big is it . So this technology will help a lot of that . Absolutely. You cannot make a better forecast unless you put more data and better data in. Detail. Forecast models and the computers if you dont put data in the right way, youre not going to get the right results. How often does this need to be updated . This is really a major investment. How often does it need to be updated . To recapture data 24 hours a day, seven days a week in real time and we run some models every six hours and they go out every nine or 10 days. Some models every hour. The National Weather service can be replaced and theyre working they have so many pressures ive spent 12 years in the weather and im a Firm Believer we have plenty of computers. We need more detail. More knowledge in. The reality is its a very amount of money and we know that noaa youre the head of noaa now. Can you take this technology directly to the planes without knowing a way to pay for it and provide the service . And heres the good news. Are challenged, the commercial market will come in and work with them. Because its a big commercial opportunity. So it doesnt have to be the government to pay to do it all. Yeah. So we work with them and try to come up with places where we can add we dont want them to go away. Theyre not a competitor. I know theyre not a competitor. But thank you very much. I appreciate even though knowing this exists. Thank you very much. Thank you. Enjoy the rest of the thank you very much, i appreciate it. Congresswoman Eddie Bernice johnson is a Ranking Member on the Science Committee here. How important is technology to your home district of texas . Its extremely important. As a matter of fact, my district is not very hightech. Thats why i focus so much on that education because we have workers coming to silicon valley. We have to do a better job with that. Now, whats exciting about this is how much were seeing that Young Developers that are coming along with new innovations and that is our economy. That are ready to go to market, are ready to be available. Its just that we know that until the demand the great, its very costly. But its very, very important that we continue to invest in innovation because thats americas future. Im always excited to come and see whats on the market. At t is near your district. Theyre in your district, arent they . Yes, theyre one block from headquarters. Yes, at t is a major exporter you know, were also with many. Texas instruments is a hometown company. Were very proud of the products that do come out of the area but were also very proud to come to Something Like this and see what the latest technologies are because you might think you have, you know, the latest technology and you come to a show like this and realize that yours might be old. It doesnt take but a few days or sometimes a few weeks for it to move to the next level and my interest is making sure we have those young minds ready to move us to the next level. Eddie bernice johnson, a democrat of texas. Thank you. Thank you very much. And now joining us on the what do you do . Im the director for recycling and waste management. I manage the recycling program for our consumers, our customers and all of our Waste Services within the company. How long has that division been in our recycling program, we piloted it in 2008 and had resounding success. We launched it formally in 2009. So this is year number five and a half. Is there a lot of electrical technical waste . It is the Fastest Growing waste stream on the planet today, actually, yes. And unfortunately much of it is going to the land fills. Many states still allow folks and businesses to just throw it away. Thats one of the many reasons were having our program. We are the biggest retailer of products and we want to be responsible for helping take care of the waste stream. What do you do . We have programs in all of our stores, 1,400 locations around the country. Every day were open, every minute were open we collect 400 pounds on average per minute of electronics so our customers can come in and bring their Old Electronics in and well recycle them for free. Anything from an old v. H. S. Player, old tvs. D. V. D. s, c. D. s, cases, cords. Anything. No charge. If you buy a new appliance or a new tv and theyre delivered to your home well haul the old units out also at no cost. What do you do with it . We recycle it. We have three electronic partners and two appliance partners and they have National Plants that have big around the country that mirror or distribution program. We collect the material. Reverse logistics to our Distribution Centers where everything is consolidated and then it goes out to these various partners. They follow the three rs. Reduce, reuse, recycle. The first for them is reuse so everything they get, whether its an appliance or electronic theyll look at each piece and see if they can repair it and then resell it and give ate second life. If they cant, they shred everything down to a commodity level. Precious medicine metals, glass, and so on and then they sell those commodity is into the commodities market and it gets reused. Youll see the plastic in Patio Furniture and the metal come back in automobile components. Panels to furniture as well and then the Precious Metals will get reused in electronics or and y or whatever else then plastics can be used that way and then glass. Off a flat panel tv you might see it come back in a digital watch. They look for innovative ways to get those commodities back into the manufacturing stream. It sounds like an expensive process. It really isnt expensive overall. We actually operate the program at a net neutral or no cost to slightly profittable and we do that to a variety of ways with our partners and other things that we do. But from the customers standpoint, its no cost and then for the recyclers its a business so they must be making money with it and the best part of it is it creates jobs. We want to introduce to you meg smith, who is with the orego safe company. What are we looking at here . Youre looking at the origo safe advice and this simulates a vehicle. Right now this vehicle, if i had my phone if in my hand and i tried to turn the vehicle on, you can see youre not going to go anywhere. This light is red and your vehicle will not start. Once i put my phone in the station and note that its authorized, this light turns green and when i turn the ignition you can see youre ready to go. So completely remove cell phone use. It can keep you connected. Where would this be mowned . Anywhere. In my vehicle its in the Center Console so you never see it. In a couple of our colleagues vehicles its up on the dash for easy access. And whats the point of this . To remove the hand held cell phone use all together from drivers. We want to keep people safe on the road and save them from themselves so kind of a parental tool maybe or corporate tool . Exactly and its trying to keep people safe on the roads, keep their phones out of that you are mound. How long has this been on the market . We launched march of last year at the National Press club of d. C. And . Weve had an overwhelming response, especially through c. E. A. How would this be different than say having bluetooth already installed in your cars . That temptation is still there. If you have that phone physically in your car, a stat came out saying that 95 of drivers whether or not they have bluetooth still text and drive every time they get in the car. Its an adistinction nowa days and this is removing this addiction. Where and who developed this . Clay skeleton developed this and were based in virginia, down the road about four hours and we manufacture most of us in the valley. Everything else is manufactured in north carolina. Meg smith is with origo safe out of roanoke, virginia. One of the companies here at c. E. S. On the hill is dish. What is this showing members of congress . Were showing them a d. V. R. System and the brains is the hopper. The horpe itself can record up to 2,000 hours of television, ughly six shows, but were showing things weve been able to innovate this year. It can record up to eight shows at once. O for families or tv binge watchers, they now have almost unlimited amount of television to watch. What kinds of questions are they asking . How they can watch their local shows while on the road and connect with their local community. We do have a solution for that. Thats sling technology. With sling on a tablet or iphone, members can stay connected with their local communities by watching their own television but on the go all through the power of the internet. If someone had an i pad, they could watch a local Television Channel anywhere in the United States . Thats right and thats very important for staying connected with different issues and being connected with constituents. In five years what are we going to be seeing what it comes to television and Satellite Companies and Cable Companies . Its going to be even more responsive to what the consumer wants. To watch tv when they want, where they want. They want to have the choice perhaps to skip commercials. The choice of what they want to watch at their convenience. I think well see more solutions leaning toward those consumer desires. This is the communicators on the hill. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable or satellite provider. Heres a look at our primetime lineup for next week on the cspan networks. Each night starting at 8 00 eastern. Monday, a debate on genetically modified foods. Tuesday, issue spotlight on General Motors safety recalls. Wednesday, new york kids forum. Thursday, the issue of Climate Change and friday night well visit important sites in the history of the civil rights movement. Monday on opinion is opinion is 2, 30 p. M. Eastern, a discussion about track. Tuesday, the history of money. 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A threejudge panel in the sixth Circuit Court of appeals recently heard oral argument on whether ohio must recognize samesex couples legally mayored in other states this is one of four samesex marriage cases recently heard by the court. It runs an hour. The department of health. Based on ohio cases and all state recognition of out of state samesex marriage and in respect to the michigan case that was just argued, which involved interstate licenses of samesex marriages. The fundamental question in all of these cases is the same and thats not whether ohio should recognize samesex marriage but who should make that important decision of Public Policy on behalf of the states. Rejecting the ohio voters decision on this policy issue, the District Court ignored its place within the judicial hierarchy and our democracy. Id like to begin with the baker point because i think it is as significant on this recognition case as it is on the michigan case and in the prior vs. Sion, the case of massachusetts was discussed. Inthat ages had it right where the judge talked about any right that they recognize has to be consistent with the state, which the plaintiffs in this case have not proffered any ground in which to distinguish the right to recognition from the right to licensing. Essentially, they make same approach with respect to baker. That is to say doctrinal developments have superseded baker. With respect to the nonrecognition part of the ohio case, didnt judge black line out there is this wrinkle that ohio does not seem to equally enforce this prohibition on outofstate marriages that are not consistent with ohio requirements for marriage licenses . In the equal protection context, he did suggest this refusal to recognize outofstate samesex marriages was unprecedented, which i do not think is correct. The courts have gone about it to distinguish between what they call void and voidable marriages. Void marriages violate what would be deemed a commonlaw marriage. It would not be recognized, whether they were recognized by another state. A commonlaw marriage outofstate would be considered