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You Won’t See This On Television: This Company Is Doing Extreme Makeovers For...
Randy Znamenak has spent the last few decades in the aviation business, but he should really try his hand at television. In an age when makeover reality shows involving homes and restaurants as well as...
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One-Week Wonders: Oshkosh Volunteers Learn How To Build A Plane In Seven Days
Mark Johnson designs new jet engines for living, a process than can take half a decade or more. But this week he’s working around the clock inside a hangar in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, racing to build a...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Humans making use of three arms, an organic battery with more staying power, and the fastest-spinning rotor in the world — in this week’s coolest scientific discoveries, everything is just a little bit...
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Zapping Blackouts: India Is Giving Its National Grid An All-Seeing Eye
Deepak Pandey still remembers the chaos of the world’s worst electrical outage. At 1:02 p.m. on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, millions of people across India suddenly found themselves waiting for hours on...
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The Change Maker: 3D-Printed Turboprop Engine With Jetlike Controls Turns...
One of the biggest hits at this year’s Oshkosh airshow wasn’t even there. It’s been busy proving its mettle in a test chamber half a world away, on the outskirts of Prague.The engine, called the...
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Sensors And Sensibility: GE Apps Are Transforming Industries
One late-summer day in 2011, a woman was bicycling along the West Side Highway trail in Manhattan. A pedestrian ambled into her path, and she swerved to avoid him, crashing her bike and smacking the...
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John Flannery: GE’s Long Digital Game
On June 26, GE announced a major change in how we run the company, focusing decision-making in the businesses and empowering our leaders with tools and responsibilities to drive growth and innovation —...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists are getting closer to bioengineering organs for transplants in humans, regenerating bone to treat injuries and birth defects, and using next-gen materials to heal skin wounds and prevent...
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30 Stores And Counting: How GE Solar Keeps Home Depot’s Solar Power Footprint...
Covering a large commercial rooftop with solar panels is not as simple as it may seem.Start with the art and science of power engineering and the idiosyncrasies of the power grid to which the solar...
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Workers Wanted: Wing Walkers And All, The World’s Largest Airshow Is The...
Every year at the end of July, acrobatic pilots turn the sky above Oshkosh, Wisconsin, into a special kind of canvas, their planes’ smoke flares painting it with giant loops, corkscrews and figure...
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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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Data Against Dehydration: This Wireless Sweat Patch Powered By Jet Engine...
Last December, several members of the U.S. Air Force volunteered for a sweaty mission. During extra workout sessions at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Ohio, the volunteers wore on their backs...
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Live Long And Prosper: Nerve Signals Could Lead To Non-Invasive Ways To...
In the original Star Trek series that aired in the 1960s, creator Gene Roddenberry posited a handheld medical device that, when passed in close proximity to a patient, provided the doctor with an...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Airplanes are getting lighter (and higher), batteries are getting more sustainable, and aging is getting postponed — or might someday, at least. Physical improvement is at the heart of this week’s best...
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Smart Thinking: How One Doctor’s Invention Helped Uncover His Own Heart Defect
In 2008, Dr. Ernie Garcia was a healthy 60-year-old who knew the importance of a heart-healthy lifestyle. When he experienced a chest pain episode, his cardiologist insisted he had nothing to worry...
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A Lord Of The Wings: America’s Largest Air Force Plane Turns 50
Few planes inspire more awe than the Galaxy. A comparison to a flying whale seems apt — but a fast and efficient whale that can carry two battle tanks across the Pacific Ocean in a matter of hours and...
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Knowledge Is Power: It Takes More Than Software…
In the time it takes the average person to read this sentence, 36 petabytes of IoT data, (an amount roughly equivalent to 720 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with text) will be created. That...
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Selfies Against Hypertension? This Smartphone App Could Measure Blood...
Doctors tell many expectant mothers in their eighth month to keep an eye on their blood pressure — hypertension can be a sign of preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication. In addition to schlepping to...
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Mission Critical: GE’s New Digital Center In Atlanta Is Using Data From Power...
Justin Eggart and fellow engineers working inside GE Power’s Monitoring and Diagnostics Center in Atlanta were halfway through their shift a few months ago when they noticed something strange. The...
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Thinking Smaller: Microgrids And Big Data Can Bring Electricity To Rural Nigeria
Power grids don’t come cheap: It can cost as much as $300,000 a mile to string a set of high-voltage wires. This can be expensive even in the U.S., but in the developing world the price is often...
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