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Dream Come True: How Two Australian Dentists 3D Printed A Fix For Apnea
Some 34 men out of 100 suffer from sleep apnea, and Dr. Christopher Hart was one of them. The condition blocks the airways and causes people to temporarily stop breathing. It also can jolt them awake...
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What Will The Plane Of The Future Look Like? NASA Has Ideas.
What will kick off the next leap in aircraft innovation and design? NASA is already working on experimental aircraft but it’s in need of public investment to keep the U.S. as the world leader in...
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He Puts Sunshine In Your Pocket: Tespack’s Mobile Solar Power Plant Charges...
You can access 2 million apps on your mobile devices, but what are they good for when the battery runs out? Nada, says entrepreneur Mario Aguilera, who learned the drawbacks of quick-draining batteries...
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GE Taps Into Its Collective Brain To Unlock 3D Printing’s Full Potential
If you’ve ever seen 3D printing video, chances are it was time-lapse footage. The actual process of additive manufacturing can take hours or days, particularly when lasers are melting metal powder...
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Pedal to the Metal: New Metal 3D Printing Systems Are ‘Military-Grade Inkjet...
After 20 years of iteration on the same basic additive-manufacturing technologies for metal, a new wave of innovation is emerging. Lower-cost, safer processes are replacing the old ways of doing...
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Taming The Beast: This French Factory Brought Scale To A Huge German Offshore...
From a distance, the large blacktop parking lot behind GE’s wind turbine factory in Saint-Nazaire, France, looks like the Galactic Empire’s base for AT-AT walkers. Over the last few months, the field...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists in Washington State stashed a software virus inside a DNA strand and used it to hack a computer, their colleagues in Munich developed a material that can self-destruct and researchers at...
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Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities
New technology could make it practical to build skyscrapers far taller than even today’s highest – and change how people live, work and play in tall buildings. In the 160 or so years since the first...
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These 3 Ways Will Help You Change Your Business Into A Digital Company
How do you promote digital transformation and innovation, even at companies that are decades old? Mary Young, principal researcher for The Conference Board, provides case studies from organizations...
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Gut Check: This Smart Capsule Is Making Colon-Cancer Screening Easier To Swallow
Turning 50 isn’t the end of the world, sources say. But it is time for a colonoscopy. The “prep” for this middle-age ritual typically involves a liquid diet the day leading up to the appointment capped...
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Engineered By Women For Women: Colleagues Band Together To Take Fear Out Of...
Study after study has shown that detecting breast cancer early can dramatically improve the chance of healing and survival1. “Mammography has been proven to reduce mortality by 20 percent2,” says...
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Drones, Bots And Flying Cars: Inside Duke’s Lab That Helps Humans Better...
“When you’re flying a plane, you’re not actually flying a plane,” Mary Cummings, professor at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering, says. “A computer’s flying the plane, and you’re trying to tell the...
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State Of The Art: Action Hero Sculptor Finds New Adventures At GE’s...
In 2011, Matt Langford was facing a tough decision. The freelance sculptor in Cincinnati, Ohio, had spent the previous 20 years designing toys and action figures for companies like Hasbro and Mattel....
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Behavioral Science: Solar Eclipses Are Predictable. The People Watching Them?...
Millions of people will step outside today to watch as the “Great American” solar eclipse cuts across the United States from Oregon to South Carolina. But a group of experts responsible for generating...
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‘In The Wild’ Shows How Far GE Wind Blades Can Be Pushed Without Breaking A...
Wind is already a powerful player in renewable energy. The Global Wind Energy Council estimates the total generating capacity of the world’s wind farms is now greater than all nuclear power plants...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Bioprosthetic ovaries produced healthy offspring in mice, scientists are putting cigarette butts to good use, and a new study offers hope for faster Lyme disease diagnosis. Who says there is no cure...
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Tracing The Links Between Basic Research And Real-World Applications
A new study connects the dots between published science and patented innovations, mapping just how society benefits from basic scientific research. What does hailing a ride with Uber have to do with...
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Curiosity And Discipline Helped Jeff Immelt Reinvent GE
Harvard Business Review today published Jeff Immelt’s personal account of his 16 years as GE chairman and CEO. “As I was becoming CEO, the world was changing,” writes Immelt, who stepped down as CEO in...
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Internet Of Volcanoes: Take A Dip Inside The World’s First Digital Lava Lake
Last summer, a small team of volcano experts supported by the Nicaraguan government and equipped with GE’s digital technology climbed down the gaping maw of Nicaragua’s Masaya volcano. They created the...
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GE Is Helping Med Students Fight The Opioid Crisis In Its New Hometown
Kelli Gills knew she wanted to be a doctor from the time she was a little girl. She remembers demanding that her mother let her “check her heart” and ultimately convincing her mom to buy her the game...
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