This week on Txchnologist, we looked at the newest innovations changing the world around us. First, Dutch architects are using 3-D printing technology to build an iconic canal house. They hope their work will offer a sustainable and quick way of providing housing for the world's growing population.
In most hurricanes the greatest damage is done not by the wind but from the storm surge, the mountain of water pushed by raging winds from the ocean to deluge the land.
Falling just short of obtaining your goals can be excruciatingly painful. While NC State was likely overjoyed to make it into the 2014 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, SMU was subjected to a special kind of pain as being the last team left out. Likewise, Wichita State played an amazing game in the third round, yet fell just one shot short of beating Kentucky---a moment they will remember for a lifetime.
HONG KONG, April 4, 2014 -- GE Capital Aviation Services Limited (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of GE, today announced delivery of a new leased Boeing 737-800 aircraft to Japan's Solaseed Air to expand the carrier's fleet. The leased aircraft comes from GECAS' existing order book with Boeing and is the first of three scheduled for delivery to the airline in 2014.
Solaseed Air operates a fleet of 13 aircraft to eight destinations in Japan.
GECAS News
In 1909, New York businessman Samuel Brown traveled to Egypt to purchase a pair of ancient mummies and two coffin bottoms for the Albany Institute of History and Art, where he served as a board member.
Brown and generations of researchers believed that he brought home a male and a female mummy. But when Emory University Egyptologist Peter Lacovara visited the Institute a few years ago, he thought that one of the mummies was in the wrong coffin.
GE is using 3D printing and other additive technologies to design and produce parts never before possible. We're even developing new ways to additively repair parts. But make them more intelligent too? Yes, you read right, or should I say "write"... Direct Write to be precise.
