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'Twas The Upgrade Before Christmas: Santa’s Sleigh Gets A High-Tech Makeover

Maggie Sieger
Todd Alhart
December 18, 2019
Reindeer are noble and beautiful creatures but, as far as aviation technology goes, it’s time to face facts: They’re a bit outdated. Santa Claus still relies on flying ungulates to get around, while the rest of the world has moved on to ultraefficient long-range passenger jets, 3D-printed engine parts and space-age composite materials.
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Innovation

Star Light, Star Bright: How GE Helped Electrify Yuletide Nights

Sam Worley
December 18, 2019
Sure, strings of brightly colored electric lights convey the joy of the holiday season and spread cheer wherever they twinkle, but there’s a more prosaic reason for the technology too: Considering the alternative, they’re much less likely to burn the house down. It used to be that people lit their Christmas trees with candles. Flaming candles!
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What’s faster than Santa? GE’s Industrial Internet

December 23, 2016
We live in an age built on information, and how quickly we receive that information has a huge impact on the value we realise in acting upon it.
Throughout the history of humankind we have innovated towards better and quicker ways of transporting information, from great towering ships that crossed oceans to shining metal machines that traversed the skies.
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LED Us See the Future: From Christmas Trees to Intelligent Streets, These Lights Could Change The Way We Live

Tomas Kellner
December 22, 2015
GE engineers started lighting the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. in 1963, one year after their colleague Nick Holonyak invented the world’s first red light-emitting diode (LED).
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