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This New Tech Makes A Prop Plane Feel Like You’re Piloting A Private Jet
Every experienced pilot will agree that flying a small turboprop plane can be a handful, literally. “There’s a bit more stress involved in operating a turboprop, which can make it tough to calmly enjoy...
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A Blast From The Past: This Edison Discovery Powers The World’s Largest Jet...
Everyone knows that Thomas Edison created the modern lightbulb. But it’s a lesser-known Edison discovery — tied to the bulb’s birth — that’s now enjoying the limelight.In 1879, the inventor and GE...
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Survival Of The Fittest: How Renewables Are Driving Energy Evolution
The renewables revolution is forcing the energy industry to evolve. Change brings opportunity, and bold players stand to make significant revenue gains by wading into this new world. Our reliance on...
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5 Coolest Things On The Earth This Week
This week we learned about an ingestible origami robot that can remotely operate on a patient’s stomach, wireless ear buds that could soon translate a conversation in a foreign language and a new way...
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Comeback Kid: The Next Sound-Barrier-Busting Passenger Jet Could Be Quietly...
The Concorde was the first and last supersonic jet in passenger service. But that claim comes with a caveat.The plane could accelerate above the speed of sound only over the ocean. The prospect of...
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Can I Trust My Robot And Should My Robot Trust Me?
It’s not just people who need to get better at talking to one another. Space roboticist Riccardo Bevilacqua says we need to teach our machines how to communicate more effectively for robots to reach...
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Next-Gen Airbus Jet Cleared For Takeoff By European And US Regulators
Airbus opened a new chapter in passenger travel this morning when European and American regulators issued a key certification to its next-generation Airbus A320neo plane powered by a pair of advanced...
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Healthcare Hacks: Spreading Frugal Innovation
The world stands to benefit if the healthcare industry embraces frugal innovation, the art of stripping away complexity to create lower-cost goods. Emerging economies could gain the most by getting...
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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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Networked LEDs Are Shaping New Digital Nervous System For Cities
Networked LED light fixtures with built-in sensors can create a digital nervous system for cities. If deployed on streets, in parking garages and in buildings, this ubiquitous infrastructure will...
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When This 3,000-Year-Old Mummy Finally Got Her Checkup, Doctors Discovered A...
In 1909, a New York businessman named Samuel Brown traveled to Egypt to purchase a pair of ancient mummies for the Albany Institute of History and Art, where he served as a board member.Brown and...
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How The Swiss Turned An Alpine Peak Into A Battery The Size Of A Nuclear Plant
Hidden away above the tiny Swiss Alpine town of Linthal, deep inside a snowcapped granite massif, sits Europe’s newest engineering marvel. It is a hydropower plant like no other, able to generate as...
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Up In The Air: The World’s Hardest-Working Jet Engine Has Logged 91,000 Years...
How long is 91,000 years? Go back that far in the history of the earth and the Sahara was a wet and fertile plateau. It’s also the cumulative amount of time that the world’s most hardest-working jet...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about freshwater snails that could help AI engineers design brains for robots, scientists who are seeking to sequence synthetic human DNA and software that turns computer cameras...
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The Key to Managing Global Risks? Collaborate, Don’t Isolate
From cyber attacks to the easy spread of pandemics, the world seems to be aflame with the unintended consequences of globalization. Instead of looking to simple yet destructive solutions like...
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Done Deal: GE Sells Its Appliances Business To Haier For $5.6 Billion
GE parted ways with its century-old Appliances business today, selling the unit to Haier for $5.6 billion. The final price is $200 million higher than originally announced to account for working...
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Could This Be The Most Extreme Power Plant In The World?
Hidden away above the tiny Swiss Alpine town of Linthal, deep inside a snowcapped granite massif, sits Europe’s newest engineering marvel. It is a hydropower plant like no other, able to generate as...
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Times They Are a-Changin’: The Renewable Energy Transition Is Happening, But...
Countries, provinces, cities and companies are increasing their renewable energy production targets at a rate that makes clear the transition away from fossil fuels is happening and unstoppable. But...
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Sweat Equity: These Wireless Skin Sensors Could Check Your Vital Signs And...
Anil Duggal has always had a knack for invention — the GE Global Research chief scientist has 98 U.S. patents to his name. Now, with the support of his colleagues Jeff Ashe and Azar Alizadeh, Duggal is...
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Lessons in Collaboration: Ecomagination Is Partnering With The World’s...
Scaling Disruptive InnovationTransformative change takes time. When Thomas Edison founded GE 124 years ago, he couldn’t have fathomed the technological, economic or environmental realities of today. In...
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