A number of initiatives were announced in this year's UK budget that will help maintain the momentum behind British manufacturing innovation, ensuring strong competition with rival markets such as Germany and the U.S., where similar policy support for manufacturing is in place.
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne described his budget as being focused on the "makers and doers."
The father of chaos theory Edward Lorenz once wondered whether the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil could set off a tornado in Texas. He called it the butterfly effect.
Before GE Garages and STEM education, GE was making short films, comics and cartoons explaining how science works to kids .
Big Data. Internet of Things. Quantified Self. Connected Home. Connected City. These buzzwords are pretty much everywhere (unless you live under a rock or up a tree), and many of us are excited about the possibilities of connecting to data in intelligent ways that improve our everyday quality of life.
GE Appliances has imagined technological enhancements for the home of the future and is displaying the concepts in an exhibit called Home 2025. GE studied trends in food science, demographic shifts, ecological issues, healthcare services, water scarcity and advanced technologies. After taking that data into account, GE's industrial designers and engineers looked at how those trends would impact your home and kitchen in the next 10-12 years.
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Three years ago Igor Spetic was working at his manufacturing job when his life changed forever.
"When I looked down and saw red everywhere, I knew something had happened," said Spetic.
A huge metal hammer had crushed Igor’s right hand.
We are witnessing the rise of the global brain, when a buzzing hive of knowledge, connectivity, technology and access unites the human and the machine, the physical and the digital, in previously unimaginable ways.
Scientific discovery, information sharing and sheer ingenuity are giving us the ability to hack our human brains to learn, do, be more. At the same time, we can model human intelligence into machines to help us gain insights, increase speed and know more.
