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Your Robot Personal Assistant Will Know When You’re Stressed, Tired Or Hungry
Open artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystems, one of the top 10 emerging technologies of 2016, have been described as the next step up from systems like Amazon’s Echo, Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s...
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Ship Shape: This Floating Offshore Wind Farm Could Be The Future Of Renewable...
France generates three-quarters of its electricity in nuclear power plants, but that figure is changing. The country aims to generate one-third of its energy from renewable sources. Solar and wind...
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Nuts For Bolts: Claudia Meyer Makes Art From Machine Parts
Artist Claudia Meyer isn’t your typical Parisian artist. She has spent the last eight years working out of a studio based inside a factory located in the industrial Paris suburb of La Courneuve, far...
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Sam Likes It Hot: This Intrepid Explorer Just Connected Nicaragua’s Most...
Sam Cossman is the human version of a heat-seeking missile. In fact, he craves heat to the extreme. Cossman, perhaps the world’s most prominent volcano explorer of the moment, spent the early part of...
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The Airline Of The Future Will Be Powered By Data
The Industrial Internet is changing the way the world does business — and that includes at 35,000 feet.That fact was clearly on display at this year’s Farnborough International Airshow, which took...
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What It Takes To Provide A Quarter Of Pakistan’s Electricity Capacity
Local expertise is critical for companies to do business anywhere. In Pakistan, GE-based technologies will provide over 25 percent of the country’s total electricity-generating capacity, thanks to...
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GE And MIT Partner For More Energy, Less Carbon
In 2006, MIT’s then-president Susan Hockfield asked university experts to name the biggest challenge for the next decades. “By far, the most common answer she got back was energy,” says Robert...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A Space X rocket suffered a setback on the launch pad this week, but the company’s founder, Elon Musk, is making progress on other fronts. News involving a neural lace—a digital layer for the brain...
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Mind The Gap: How To Build A Power Plant Fueled By The Sun And CO2
In March this year, Doug Hofer, a steam turbine specialist at GE Global Research, designed a prototype of a supercritical CO2 turbine small enough to fit on his desk but powerful enough to generate...
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These Engineers 3D Printed a Mini Jet Engine, Then Took it to 33,000 RPM
Consider it a jet engine for the Oompa-Loompas. GE engineers working on the future of aircraft manufacturing recently showed off some of their capabilities. They made a simple 3D-printed mini jet...
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Land Of Silk And Lasers: Bespoke 3D Printing Factory Thrives in Italy’s...
For decades, fabric factories on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como kept the fashion houses of Milan resplendent in silk. Today, a new kind of manufacturing in the fashion heartland is spinning up parts...
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Inside GE’s Brainy Factory Of The Future: What Happens When You Link 3D...
The industrial fringe of Greenville, South Carolina, isn’t the most obvious place to go looking for a glimpse of things to come. But tucked behind railroad tracks and boxy factories you’ll find GE...
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All The 3D Print That’s Fit to Pitt: New Additive Technology Center Opens...
GE’s new Center for Additive Technology Advancement (CATA) looks like a futuristic set for a Stanley Kubrick movie. Everything seems to be white: the walls, the gleaming floors, even the noise from...
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The Story Of The 1st US Jet Engine: The Hush-Hush Boys Wanted To Win The War...
The PlotThe year was 1941. World War II was raging in Europe and Nazi bombers over London were as common as rain. It was also when a group of GE engineers in Lynn, Massachusetts, received a secret...
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GE To Acquire Two Top 3D Printing Companies For $1.4 Billion
Just a few years ago, 3D printers lived mainly inside labs and on garage desktops where hobbyists used them to produce plastic keepsakes.Not anymore. Today, companies such as GE are using 3D printing...
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Gulp! These Scientists Are Turning CO2 Into Fish Food
It’s not often that you hear about the virtues of carbon dioxide. CO2 is a gas whose surfeit has turned it into one of the main contributors to global warming. But this October, on the windswept west...
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How Does A Computer Know Where You’re Looking?
Pokémon Go introduced the masses to augmented reality (AR) for leisure, but the potential practical applications for AR are endless. To display relevant information in a useful location, you’ll need...
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From Wimbledon To Burning Man: An Inside Look At The Summer’s Largest Airshows
The Farnborough International Airshow, which takes place every other year just outside of London, is aviation’s grand slam event comparable to Wimbledon or the U.S. Open. Boeing, Airbus, GE and all...
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Five Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Spiders’ webs aren’t just deadly insect traps but also sophisticated information networks, Costa Rica has been running on renewable electricity for 76 days straight, and researchers in Belgium and the...
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This Discovery Could Help Us Regenerate Body Parts One Day
Pluripotent stem cells hold an almost magical place in the human imagination. These inveterate transformers start out in the embryo as biological blank sheets but change in developing animals and grow...
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