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Achtung, Baby: This Wireless Fetal Heart Rate Monitor Delivers
Giving birth is hard enough without getting trapped in your bed by a mess of wires and cables. Just ask labor and delivery nurse Brigitta Fifield, who spends a lot of time helping her patients get...
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Winds Of Change: GE Combines Grid, Renewables Units Into A Renewable Energy...
Germany’s huge new offshore wind farm Merkur is an awesome sight in its own right. But it’s also a great illustration of why GE’s decision to combine its Renewable Energy business with its Grid...
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GE Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2018 Results
Today GE released its fourth-quarter results for 2018, reporting revenues of $33.3 billion, GE cash flows from operating activities of $6.4 billion, adjusted GE industrial free cash flows of $4.9...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week, researchers rigged off-the-shelf technology to catapult their ideas into the next level. Engineers in California used a movie projector to 3D-print super smooth, bendable objects, a team in...
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A Great Piece Of Gear: Army To Upgrade Its Fleet of Black Hawk, Apache...
Two U.S. Army workhorse helicopters, the Black Hawk and the Apache, are getting futuristic new engines that promise to keep the legendary choppers in service for decades to come. On Friday, the...
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She Has Her Finger On Power’s Pulse: GE’s Vera Silva Talks About Building The...
Operating a massive power grid is a bit like riding a bike, says the Swiss national grid operator Swissgrid. It’s easiest if you’re on a level surface, but things get trickier going uphill or downhill...
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Honey, I Shrunk The Grid: How Digital Technology Is Straightening Out The...
Electrical substations — the clusters of circuit breakers, transformers and switchgears that stick out of the ground like giant cattle prods — aren’t much to look at. What they lack in glamour, they...
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Blown Away: GE Is Now The Top Manufacturer Of Wind Turbines In The US
Recognizing which way the wind is blowing in the energy business, American brewer Anheuser-Busch used a high-profile spot during last night’s big game to highlight the fact that its most iconic brand...
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Gear Heads: Smart Tech Helps Repair Crews Restore Power Faster
A mass of electrical cables may look like spaghetti to many people, but Nicolas Godingen has become an expert at picking each strand apart in his mind’s eye.Nearly every day, the field service manager...
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Digital Transformation: How Data Is Helping This 100-Year-Old Utility Keep...
On Dec. 27, 2018, a loud boom rousted New Yorkers from their holiday revelry. While Christmas tree lights flickered inside, a scene straight out of “Ghostbusters” was unfolding outside. A canopy of...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Brain cancer cells are being lured to their doom, artificial neural networks are functioning even more like human gray matter, and lab-grown chimpanzee “mini-brains” are enriching our understanding of...
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This News Travels Fast: Boeing’s Partnership With Aerion Could Supercharge...
The return of passenger supersonic flight may have just picked up speed. Early in February, Boeing announced it would partner with Aerion Supersonic, a Nevada company founded by the legendary aircraft...
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Spielberg Turns 102: Computing Pioneer Talks About GE’s First Digital...
One day, when he was still barely a teenager, the film director Steven Spielberg came to visit his father, Arnold, at work. It was the late 1950s and the elder Spielberg was building computers for GE...
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The Anything Factory: NASCAR Driver Brad Keselowski Is Transforming...
As one of the country’s fastest NASCAR drivers, Brad Keselowski has always believed he could get a little more speed out of his car through cutting-edge technology and clever tweaks. As a child, he...
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XO-rbitant Strength: Electric Exoskeletons Give Wearers The Strength Of A...
In popular culture, automation is generally synonymous with putting people out of work. But in real life it can do the opposite, making workers more effective at the jobs they already have. That’s the...
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To Infinity And Beyond: These Crystal Sensors Can See Supernovas And Cancers
In the 1960s, satellites monitoring Soviet nuclear tests noticed huge, curious flashes of radiation. Rather than coming from the ground below, they were arriving from deep space. After decades of...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Whispered messages can be transmitted across a room directly into the ear they’re intended for, a shirt can change its properties whether it’s hot or cold out, and a new military grenade comes loaded...
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Lights, Electricity, Action: When Ronald Reagan Hosted “General Electric...
In 2015, the National Geographic Channel launched a new television series called “Breakthrough,” focusing on scientific discovery. The series was developed by the channel and GE, and produced by Oscar...
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The Sky’s Best Buddy Act: GE Aviation And Qantas Capture The Pulse Of...
GE Aviation and Qantas have a great buddy act going. Not only did a pair of GE engines power the Australian national carrier’s inaugural direct flight from Australia to Europe — shuttling travelers...
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Digging Deep, Flying High: The Airline Of The Future Will Run On Big Data
Before boarding a flight, a passenger will likely use their phone to show their ticket, send some last-minute emails and maybe even download a movie for the trip. We take it for granted that digital...
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