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Talking Shop: These LEDs Can Chat With Shoppers’ Smartphones, Pitch Discounts...
By Mike KellerShopping in a big department store can quickly devolve from a simple errand to an odyssey filled with frustration. What section do they put the bath towels in again? Is there a route to...
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Snapchat For Oil Wells?
By Mike KellerAboard a drillship bobbing in the waters off West Africa, a piece of complex machinery unexpectedly shuts down. A mile below the ship, a newly completed deepwater well waits for the...
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Light My Fire: GE Engineers 3D Printed a Jet Engine, Then Started it Up
By Mike KellerConsider it a jet engine for the Oompa-Loompas. GE engineers working on the future of aircraft manufacturing recently showed off what they could do. They made what could be the world’s...
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On V-E Day, Remembering The Home Front
By GE Reports Staff History remembers the soldiers who streamed from amphibious assault vehicles at Normandy and the tank commanders in the Battle of the Bulge. But let’s not forget Marie Kappa, a...
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Move Over Slow Food, Slow Wind Might Be the Latest Thing in Sustainable Living
By GE Reports staffSailors know that wind can be a fickle servant and they’ve come up with ingenious ways to trap it in their sails. Wind turbine designers have recently developed their own tricks to...
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New Nepal Quake Adds Urgency to Relief Efforts
By GE Reports staffPowerful new tremors rattled Nepal again on Tuesday, adding to the devastation caused by a 7.8 earthquake that killed at least 8,000 people three weeks ago in April. The world has...
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From Zero to 5,000 mph in Less Than a Second? All-Electric Zumwalt Destroyer...
By GE Reports staffThe U.S. Navy’s new Zumwalt class of stealth destroyers is seeking to redefine sea power. Quite literally. In the past, ships used most of their installed power for propulsion, with...
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Das Hybrid-Kraftwerk: Power Plant Mixing Gas, Solar, Batteries and Software...
By GE Reports staffFrom Japan’s offshore solar plants to a tidal lagoon in Wales, countries around the world have found clever ways to tap renewable power. But nowhere is the need for ingenuity more in...
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These Space-Age Ceramics Will Be Your Jet Engine’s Next Cup of Tea
By GE Reports staffHumans have been living with ceramics for 25,000 years. We’ve been using them for cups, pipes, pottery and many other handy everyday objects. But the light, strong, and heat...
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World in Motion Partnership with Quartz Takes GE Content for a Spin
By Michaela MaerklGE engineers have recently designed massive subsea power generators that will soon allow the U.K. to produce electricity from the tides. In Japan, special GE LEDs are helping a local...
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Wind in the Cloud? How the Digital Wind Farm Will Make Wind Power 20 Percent...
By GE Reports staffFew people embody the backyard inventor better than Charles Brush. In 1887, he built behind his mansion in Cleveland, Ohio, a 4-ton wind generator with 144 blades and a comet-like...
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Jet Engines with 3D-Printed Parts Power Next-Gen Airbus Passenger Jet
By GE Reports staffA next-generation A320neo Airbus passenger jet powered by twin LEAP jet engines with 3D-printed parts and new advanced materials inside took to the skies for the first time on...
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When Hardware Met Software: The “Killer Advantage”
By David LurieFrom Amazon to Zynga, many companies glean powerful business insights from slicing, sorting and analyzing data. But GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt says it is the combination of big iron...
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Diamonds Weren’t Forever in the GE Store, but Carbon Will Be
By GE Reports staffIn 1954, GE researcher H. Tracy Hall and three colleagues built a machine that squeezed carbon so hard it turned into nature’s hardest substance: diamond. Their discovery earned the...
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A Passport to Fly: New Engines for Business Jets Tap Latest Military Tech
By Matt BenvieFrom GPS to the Internet, many everyday technologies have military roots. The same is true for jet engines, especially those powering business jets. For America, the jet age began the...
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Remembering D-Day: GE and the Invasion That Changed History
By GE Reports staffOn June 6, 1944, nearly 160,000 American, British, Canadian and other Allied soldiers boarded 5,000 ships and landing craft in Plymouth, Southampton and other English ports and...
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World’s Most Dangerous Airport Becomes a Toehold for Aid after Nepal Earthquakes
By Hana Bolinova Lukla’s Tenzing-Hillary Airport has been called the world’s most dangerous landing strip. It’s now also one of Nepal’s busiest.Trekkers often refer to Lukla (elev. 9,334 ft.) the...
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What this Turbine Does is Bigger than Winning the Triple Crown (or Prix de...
By GE Reports staffOver the last year, GE engineers have been testing the largest, most efficient and most powerful gas turbine in the world. It weighs as much as a Boeing 747 filled to the brim and,...
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Funny Science: Comic Books, the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and the...
By Ysabel YatesComic books were as popular with kids and teens in the 1950s as TV and social media is today. Although many parents couldn’t stand them, the team inside GE’s communication department...
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Sea of Green Power: Yellow Submarine Beneath the Waves Will Produce Tidal...
By GE Reports staffMost people might still consider the idea of using tides to generate electricity as outlandish as a trip to the moon. But starting this year, the concept is quickly becoming reality....
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