Science

A Chinese Dairy Farm Made The World’s Largest Machine For Turning Crap Into Power

What happens when a Chinese dairy farm takes the excrement from 60,000 of its 250,000 cows and converts it into electricity? They generate 5.66 megawatts of power, which is roughly enough to power 3500 American homes.


October 23, 2010
Science

Halogen-CFL Hybrid Light Bulb Gets Instant Full Brightness

General Electric’s new halogen-compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulb solves the main complain people have about CFL: It takes too much time to achieve full brightness level. I don’t care too much about that, but it’s really neat looking.


October 22, 2010
Science

What Do Jet Engines And LED Light Bulbs Have In Common?

It’s not the setup for a joke. Jets and light bulbs really do have something in common now that GE is using jet engine cooling mechanisms inside bright, lightweight, low-energy LED bulbs. You’ll just have to wait to buy them.


September 12, 2010

Human Exoskeletons Nothing New, Says 1960s GE Prototype

The US military is currently testing what they’d have you believe is cutting-edge exoskeleton technology. Don’t believe them! These pictures, from the carefree 1960s, have them beat by almost half a century.


August 12, 2010
Science

GE’s Visible You Is Kinect For Your Skeleton

With everyone hemming and hawing about airport scanners being a huge invasion of privacy, GE decided to put the fun back in showing your guts to the world. Their interactive Visible You installation lets you see your insides in action.


July 14, 2010
Cars

GE And Yves Behar Unveil Charge-Stations For Electric Cars

Today GE has unveiled its long-awaited scheme for electric-car charging points, complete with a design by Yves Béhar’s Fuseproject. The stations will drop the time required to charge a car down to as little as four hours.


Software

GE Mood Cam App Helps You Pick The Perfect Light Bulb

For some, finding just the right light can make the difference between a good room and a great room. GE’s new iPhone app should help: it lets you choose a desired mood and tells you which bulb can achieve it.


May 7, 2010

What Does A 1 Kilowatt Hour Exactly Mean?

Did you know that 1 kilowatt hour will get 29 DVD movies or 100 toasts – with jam – or 15 days of talk on a cordless telephone or five hours of video games or 11 espressos or 400 blended Margaritas?


February 22, 2010
Cameras

Waterproof G5WP Tops Fresh Budget Line GE Point-and-Shoots

There’s a camera show going down in Anaheim right now, and with it has come a whole mess of budget cameras. GE added a few more to the growing pile today, including additions to its entry-level Power Series point-and-shoots.


December 19, 2009
Gadgets

How Will We Look Back On Today’s Gadget Ads?

This GE appliance ad, printed in 1949, is indisputably horrible. It could never be printed now. But it also seems inevitable that some of today’s tech ads will eventually seem nearly as backwards. The question is, which ones?