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Night Watch 2.0: Meet The Digital Ghost In the Machine
Time was, outages on the power grid were the result of downed tree limbs. Trees and branches are still an issue, but power companies increasingly are worried about hackers and computer viruses. To wit,...
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She’s Got Grit: A Simulated Helicopter Sea Crash Is Just A Small Part Of This...
There are no glass ceilings on the North Sea, only ceaseless winds. Those winds will soon drive huge offshore turbines with enough capacity to light up 1 million homes in Germany. But there’s a hitch....
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Tiny Giant: This Bitty Switch Aims To Supercharge 5G Mobile Networks
The flight attendants are about to shut the cabin doors when you realize you forgot to download that sci-fi blockbuster you were looking forward to watching during the flight. As they tell you to shut...
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An ‘All of the Above’ Approach to U.S. Infrastructure
Investing in U.S. infrastructure may be one of the few bipartisan efforts that financial institutions, manufacturers, policy makers and workers can all get behind. The new Coalition to Modernize...
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Living On The Edge But Playing It Safe: What Barefoot Water-Skiing And...
You’d think an environmental health and safety (EHS) expert would be overly cautious about the world around him, calculating every possible danger and wrapping family members in cotton wool. Not Kevin...
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Hydropower Catches The Digital Wave
Digital solutions promise to improve economic and environmental outcomes, write Debora Frodl, Global Executive Director at GE Ecomagination, and Richard Taylor, CEO of the International Hydropower...
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A Magic Touch: Brazilian Doctor Uses 3D Printing To Help Blind Parents Feel...
When Ana Paula Silveira got pregnant, she and her husband, Alvaro Zermiani, dreamed about seeing the face of their child during her first ultrasound exam. But weeks later, they got to feel it...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists in San Diego are printing body parts, their peers in England are manufacturing blood, and a team in Wisconsin came up with eye gear that could give humans super color vision. Who needs...
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Theoretical Physicists Suggest There’s A Portal Linking The Standard Model To...
Theoretical physicists have put forward a new hypothesis that aims to connect the world of visible physics to the hidden forces of our Universe: what if there’s a portal that bridges the gap between...
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The Sword In The Virtual Stone: Archeologists Are Using Software And...
In 2012, Berlin conservator Katrin Lück brought a tiny, severely corroded lead scroll to GE’s Technical Solutions Center in the town of Wunstorf in northern Germany.Lück believed that the precious,...
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The Rising Importance Of The ‘Secondary’ City
There’s a popular saying in Chinese urban geography and architecture: “If you want to understand 5,000 years of Chinese civilization look at Xi’an, 1,000 years look at Beijing, modern China look at...
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Vive La Révolution Digitale: A Parisian Suburb Started Testing A Renewable...
The Jean Jaurès elementary school in the town of Rueil-Malmaison outside of Paris is full of French charm. Light streams into a room on the second floor through colored glass casting playful...
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Powder To The People: This 3D Printing Incubator Is Liberating Engineers (And...
Hailing from the Outer Banks, a long, sandy necklace of islands hanging from North Carolina’s Atlantic coast, Jimmie Beacham knows something about witnessing history. When his grandfather, John, was a...
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Good Pill Hunting: How Biotech Fell In Love With Beantown
Boston has a long history of medical breakthroughs going all the way back to Onesimus, an African slave who introduced Cotton Mather to inoculation during a smallpox epidemic in 1721. This was seven...
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Love At First Touch: Brazilian Doctor Uses 3D Printing To Help Blind Parents...
When Ana Paula Silveira got pregnant, she and her husband, Alvaro Zermiani, dreamed about seeing the face of their child during her first ultrasound exam. But weeks later, they got to feel it...
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5 Ways Designers And Engineers Can Start Designing For Climate Change
All over the world these days, sustainable design is good design — from China’s tallest tower to the Bellagio Hotel fountains. Designers and engineers who are addressing climate change and aiming for...
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Powder To The People: This 3D Printing Incubator Is Liberating Engineers (And...
Hailing from the Outer Banks, a long, sandy necklace of islands hanging from North Carolina’s Atlantic coast, Jimmie Beacham knows something about witnessing history. When his grandfather, John, was a...
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From The Keystone State To Karachi: These U.S Locomotives Will Help Drive...
Erie, Pennsylvania, is 7,000 miles and a world away from Karachi, Pakistan. Seated on the south side of Lake Erie, the Pennsylvania town is green and full of historic brick homes. Karachi is a bustling...
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Global Is Local: The Future Of Manufacturing
Let’s change the way we talk about manufacturing.Too often, the discussion is about how old-line industry is struggling to survive in a world of bold new tech. In reality, digital and additive...
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School’s In: GE’s New “Brilliant Learning” Program Will Train Workers For...
Jesse Schrimpf didn’t study additive manufacturing in school. But when a 3D printer showed up at his plant in Waukesha, Wisconsin, the GE Healthcare engineer decided to give the machine a whirl. One of...
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