At a General Electric factory in Schenectady, N.Y., tens of thousands of tiny sensors are quietly collecting data about each step in the manufacturing of a battery. The sensors know, for ins... Read more
Quirky, a start-up that now fields 4,000 new product ideas a week, picks three winners and then takes over all aspects of production, from making blueprints to marketing the goods through b... Read more
Magnetic cooling is a promising new refrigeration technology boasting several advantages – ranging from lower energy consumption to eliminating the use of hazardous fluids – that... Read more
“By linking physical objects to the full power of cyberspace, the Industrial Internet promises to dramatically reshape how people interact with technology,” AT&T, Cisco, GE,... Read more
Predicted to be 20 to 30 percent more efficient that current technology The fridge is the most common of common household appliances. Despite improvements in efficiency over the years, they... Read more
3-D printing is growing up fast On a recent cold afternoon in New York, a young couple with two small children in tow stepped off a busy sidewalk at Manhattan’s Columbus Circle into the quie... Read more
“This technology could give customers control over what they want to do and when” It’s a thrifty trick used by households from L.A. to Luxembourg, or anywhere where utilities charge less for... Read more
A new study has revealed that the stunning iridescent wings of the tropical blue Morpho butterfly could expand the range of innovative technologies. Scientific lessons learnt from these butt... Read more
GE challenged designers to create a new jet engine bracket. The Maker Movement is a vast and diverse community teeming with passionate hobbyists and DIY entrepreneurs energized to build new... Read more
General Electric has unveiled what seems to be the thinnest, high-performance cooler for the next-generation of ultra-thin tablets and laptops (pictured above). While this cooler obviously a... Read more
Instead of fiberglass, a super-strong architectural fabric will be wrapped around the blade frame The latest round of ARPA-E grants was just announced and among the 66 cleantech proje... Read more
G.E’s big bet on what it calls the “industrial Internet” When Sharoda Paul finished a postdoctoral fellowship last year at the Palo Alto Research Center, she did what most of her peers do —... Read more
Manufacturing in the United States is in trouble. That’s bad news not just for the country’s economy but for the future of innovation. In a hangarlike building where General Elec... Read more
Showing that it works could renew efforts by countries to develop the process General Electric says it has successfully tested a faster, cheaper way to produce nuclear reactor fuel, a... Read more
The Challenge is part of a five year global campaign against cancer GE is well known to innovators for the company’s Ecomagination Challenge, which offers significant prize money to winners... Read more