Pedal To The Metal: This Engineer Wants To Supercharge 3D Printing With...
3D printing has come a long way over the past 20 years. Engineers and designers already print jewelry, airplane parts, bone implants, and even toothbrushes directly from a computer file, layer by...
View ArticleA New Dimension For Industry: How 3D Printing Is Doing Its Part To Reduce...
3D printing may still seem a bit like science fiction, but in truth, it’s all around us — in luxury vehicles, jet engines and customized implants used to rebuild skulls and bones.And now the technology...
View ArticleBrothers In Arms: These Robots Put A New Twist On 3D Printing
In October, engineers at Avio Aero, a GE Aviation company, used a futuristic process called cold spray to repair a gearbox on the GE90, the largest and most powerful jet in the world. The technology...
View ArticleThe 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A musician who lost an arm played the piano again thanks to a special prosthesis, new muscles allowed robots to lift as much as 1,000 times their own weight, and glowing trees could one day illuminate...
View ArticleBack To The Future: This Pointy-Nosed Plane Could Make Jet Set Feel...
The Concorde, the iconic pointy-nosed supersonic jet that shuttled passengers between Paris, London, New York and other choice destinations, landed for the last time 14 years ago, after 27 years in...
View ArticleAfter Epic Road Trip, This 241-Foot Wind Turbine Blade Is Ready To Get Down...
In October, employees at LM Wind Power’s wind turbine blade factory in Castellón, Spain, briefly left their posts to send off their biggest achievement to date — all 241 feet of it. They sent the...
View ArticleThis Software Helps Doctors Treat the Tiniest Hearts
Over the last decade, Dr. Ferran Rosés i Noguer, head of the pediatric cardiology department at Hospital Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona, Spain, has dedicated his efforts to studying his tiny patients’...
View ArticleGame Changer: How 1 Doctor Is Using A $10 Video Game Chip To Revolutionize...
One day last spring at a hospital in North Carolina, Dr. Joshua Broder prepared to examine a 7-month-old patient while she slept in her mother’s arms. Doctors suspected she had hydrocephalus — a...
View ArticleSurvivor: This Woman’s Battle With Leukemia Is Pointing The Way To The Future...
In the spring of 2016, 32-year-old Nicole Gularte grew weak and lost her ability to see colors from her left eye. She knew that her leukemia had returned.Gularte’s form of the disease was called acute...
View ArticleThe 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A Ukrainian startup is 3D-printing tiny homes, Israeli researchers helped paralyzed rats walk again and engineers in Japan built a robot that rolls — or rather crawls — with the punches. We find all...
View ArticleHow To Get Boston Kids Into Science And Math? Call The Celtics.
Almost every day, 13-year-old Valerie Cameron-Goodwin carries a wooden business card etched with her name, email address and dream job: surgeon. She’s proud of what this card says — and prouder still...
View ArticleFired Up: GE Successfully Tested Its Advanced Turboprop Engine With...
Stephen Erickson was just 13 years old when he fell in love with planes — inside a Boston movie theater. He was watching aircraft mechanic Joe Patroni, played by George Kennedy in the original...
View Article11 Most Popular Videos of 2017
Last summer, we started turning our stories into video. The move was a huge hit and GE Reports videos have been seen by millions of people. Below are some of our most popular 2017 videos. 1. Meet the...
View Article12 Best Stories Of 2017
When GE Reports visited the renowned plastic surgeon Laurent Lantieri in his office in Paris last summer, the first thing we noticed was a row of cheerfully colored plastic skulls lined up on top of...
View ArticleDrivers Wanted: Why Engineers Want To Climb Into The Cockpits Of Tiny Robot...
Sci-fi writers love to scare readers with tales of robots becoming sentient and taking over the world. The reality is a little more comical. Consider the self-driving Las Vegas bus that 2 hours into...
View ArticleUncharted: How 3D Printing Experiments Delivered A Better Power Plant
Many of Kassy Hart’s first attempts at 3D printing didn’t end well.Back in 2015, Hart was trying to print a special metal probe from a cobalt-chrome alloy at GE Power’s Advanced Manufacturing Works in...
View ArticleHow Thailand Can Become A Power Hub For ASEAN
Closer trade, economic, political, military, and education ties among ASEAN nations are some of the main benefits touted by supporters of regional integration.Cross-country energy partnership is one of...
View ArticleInnovation in 2018: GE Ventures Experts Look Ahead
With an array of technologies poised to converge in 2018, this year is likely to be one of transformation — for consumers, for individual companies and for entire industries. The Internet of Things,...
View ArticleTour De Force: This Slovak Company Is 3D-Printing Bespoke Electric Mountain...
Patrik Paul loved riding his bike everywhere growing up in the Slovak capital Bratislava. He dreamed of the perfect mountain bike — one that exactly matched his center of gravity and perfectly gripped...
View ArticleThe 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A robot in California is acting like a total baby, researchers in the U.K. smuggled a tumor-tracing virus into patients’ brains, and plants in Australia are breeding like rabbits. We’d say 2018 is off...
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