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A Glass Half Full: These Water Treatment Technologies Are So Powerful They...
By GE Reports staffWater scarcity has again become a hot topic as California and Texas lurch into their fourth year of drought and Brazil’s Sao Paulo may start rationing water in 2015. But in some...
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Pure Grit: Material With Skateboarding Heritage Could Make Planes, Trains and...
By GE Reports staffPower management chips are like second-born kids. They do a lot of hard work, but don’t always get the recognition they deserve.Like microchips inside computers and laptops, power...
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GE to Sell Most GE Capital Assets, Embrace its Industrial Core
By David LurieGE will sell most of its GE Capital assets by 2018, a move that will reshape the company and further the role of its industrial businesses as the principal source of GE’s earnings. GE...
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Power in Numbers: Industrial Internet Software is Helping Solve Pakistan’s...
By Abeer MasoodShahid Abdullah has been in business long enough to spot a good opportunity. Abdullah is the president of the Sapphire Group, one of Pakistan’s largest textile companies with 16,000...
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GE is Talkin’ Loco! Testing a New Engine in the Tunnels of Dread
By GE Reports staffIf Dante were a railroad engineer, the Norden tunnel under Sierra Nevada’s Donner Pass would probably be his tenth circle of hell. Nicknamed the “Big Hole” and 90 years old, its...
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3D Printed Parts to Fly Inside Commercial GE Jet Engines for the First Time
By GE Reports staffThe fist-sized piece of silver metal that houses the compressor inlet temperature sensor inside a jet engine is a part that’s bit obscure even for many aviation aficionados. Starting...
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Drone Brain Maker Airware Gets a Lift as GE Climbs on Board
By GE Reports staffLast November, when GE invested in the drone technology company Airware, Alex Tepper, managing director at GE Ventures, said his company wanted to be part of the commercial drone...
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Industrial Profits Rise as GE Prepares for Banking Exit
By David LurieIn his first earnings release following last week’s announcement that GE would sell most of its banking assets, Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt said GE’s industrial profits grew by 9 percent...
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Inside Knowledge: Superfast Imaging Machine Takes Young Patients on a Pirate...
By GE Reports staffThere are more than over 2,600 American children born every year with cleft palate and other head and face conditions such as the Treacher Collins syndrome, which can result in an...
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Fast and Luminous: These Lights are So Bright, They Could Show You the...
By Ki Mae Heussner For every showing of “A Streetcar Named Desire” in a big city, there’s a street packed with traffic on the way to the theater. Let’s face it, large urban centers may have culture and...
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Huge GE Gas Turbine Generator Starts Up at One of the World’s Largest Gas...
By GE Reports staffFive hundred years ago, Michelangelo fashioned David from marble cut out of the mountains towering over the Tuscan town of Carrara. Today, however, the area’s craftsmen are in the...
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Hearing the Holy See: This GE Technology is Helping Keep Vatican Radio on the...
By Jon Blauvelt and Ellen ZeidlerLast month, Pope Francis delivered his third Easter Sunday Mass to throngs of pilgrims spilling below his balcony across St. Peter’s Square. The square and the broad...
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Mind-Controlled Robots Take Directions from Tiny Brain Implants
By GE Reports staffIn 1997, Cathy Hutchinson suffered a brainstem stroke that left her paralyzed from the neck down. But in 2011, she was able to pick up a bottle of coffee, bring it to her mouth and...
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This Software-Guided Supersonic Air Blower Sweeps the Rails Clean
By Greg Petsche Like an SUV towing a trailer in winter, locomotives can lose their grip on slick rails if they’re pulling too much behind them. Since the weather in mountainous areas can change...
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Magnetic Brain Stimulation for Treating Depression Attracts GE Investment
By GE Reports staffThere are millions of Americans who battle depression every year and many of them fail to respond to pills and other standard treatments or suffer from side effects. “This group of...
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Deep Under Stockholm, Water Plant Blasted from Granite Gets a Nanotech Makeover
By GE Reports staffThere is no lack of water in Stockholm, which spreads over an archipelago of 14 islands and whose oldest quarter used to be called quite literally “The Town Between the Bridges.” Yet...
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It’s BASIC: Arnold Spielberg and the Birth of Personal Computing
By GE Reports staffFrom Thomas Edison to former President Ronald Reagan and novelist Kurt Vonnegut, GE has employed a number of luminaries over the course of its 123-year history. One famous last name...
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Mensa for Lumens: Bright Minds from GE and Apple Just Made Lighting More...
By GE Reports staffGE will connect its intelligent Align LED light bulbs, which adjust their light waves to help promote the body’s natural sleep cycle, with Apple’s HomeKit platform, which allows...
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A Toy Gone Wrong: Edison's Monster Doll Was One Gift People Were Happy to Return
By GE Reports staffNot everything Thomas Edison touched became raging success. His “monster doll” turned out to be an outright dud.In 1877, Edison made the first recording device that could play back...
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If Ships Could Fly: Big Data Dawn on the High Seas
By GE Reports staffA seaborne locomotive sounds like crazy idea, but engineer Andy McKeran, who designs heavy-duty offshore equipment at GE, might give it another look. “One of the big benefits of...
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