Fifty years ago, physicist Nick Holonyak was tinkering with lasers in his GE lab when he discovered the world's first light-emitting diode. "We knew what happened and that we had a powerful way of converting electric current directly into light," Holonyak says. "We had the ultimate lamp." His team called it "the Magic One."
App Uses Google Glass To Diagnose Disease
The American Chemical Society has the story of some interesting work that might let healthcare providers use Google Glass for medical testing.
SAN ANTONIO---April 8, 2014---GE (NYSE: GE) today announced the release of its new Sievers* M9 Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyzer, which has been designed to measure TOC in a broad range of samples from ultrapure water to process waters. The new M9 Analyzer enhances productivity by producing TOC results in two minutes, twice as fast as its predecessor.
We may not have noticed it, but Americans are breathing a little easier thanks to a great story for the country's air quality.
LAS VEGAS and ELGIN, ILLINOIS-- April 8, 2014 -- Growing its power debt business, GE unit (NYSE: GE) GE Energy Financial Services is providing a loan to investment firm Rockland Capital, LLC to support its acquisition of the gas-fired Elgin Energy Center in Illinois. The deal was announced today at the 29th Annual Platt's Global Power Markets Conference in Las Vegas where GE Energy Financial Services serves as an Executive Sponsor.
Technology can enable clinicians to assess patient's response to treatment accurately
WAUKESHA, Wisc. -- April 8, 2014 -- GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), today announced that it received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance of its Q.Clear^ technology -- technology that can provide up to two times improvement in both quantitative accuracy and image quality in PET/CT imaging. This is an innovative new tool for clinicians across the entire care continuum including diagnosis, staging, treatment planning, and treatment assessment.
I am sitting in the back seat of a taxicab in New York City. The traffic is Midtown, stuck bumper to bumper.
"Everything is turned upside down!" the cabbie shouts, pumping his arm up and down in the air. "Five years ago it was not like this!" he cries.
The taxi driver is not talking about Midtown Manhattan traffic. He is from Alexandria. Not the Alexandria we know on the Washington Beltway, but the Alexandria in Egypt, named after Alexander the Great.
