GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies

The worlds of medicine and industrial construction may not seem to have much in common, but at GE, they’re both sharing advanced technology with a common DNA. The imaging horsepower used to diagnosis diseases or view broken bones in medical CT scanners is also being put to use in an [...]

Of the $2.5 million that GE has targeted for earthquake relief in Haiti, $1 million will be used to help the next phase of the response effort — recovery. That stage is already underway with solar-powered water purification units now shipping to the devasted country, along with critically needed medical [...]

Sleep apnea is a common disease that affects millions of people all over the world — and one of the key ways of treating it is by sleeping with a mask hooked to a machine that gently blows air into the throat. In these systems, the air pressure is adjusted [...]

Each year, airlines can potentially lose millions of dollars due to small accidents that occur on the flightline, such as a minor collision with a baggage loader. Currently, an aircraft must be grounded following these incidents while extensive tests are conducted to confirm its integrity and airworthiness. [...]

Thousands of works of art from ancient Egypt to 20th-century Europe are on hand to dazzle visitors to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. But the views art lovers won’t see are the ones taken by GE’s digital radiography technology to help curators better understand the condition, design, and [...]

The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) has been fighting to protect historic structures since it was founded in 1877 to fight the highly destructive ‘restoration’ of medieval buildings being practiced by many Victorian architects of that era. So when it came time to [...]

Heatstroke has killed 33 football players — most of them high school athletes — since 2005. To stop these preventable deaths, entrepreneur Jay Buckalew invented a helmet that detects when a player is at risk for developing heatstroke. Available this month, the “Hothead” helmet uses technology from [...]