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Tiny Giant: This Bitty Switch Aims To Supercharge 5G Mobile Networks

March 21, 2017
The flight attendants are about to shut the cabin doors when you realize you forgot to download that sci-fi blockbuster you were looking forward to watching during the flight. As they tell you to shut down your personal devices, you press the download button. Before they’ve arrived at your row to demand you shut it off, the entire high-definition movie has flooded into your phone and it’s already tucked away in your pocket.
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All You Want For Christmas In 2027: These Stocking Stuffers Are In Your Future

December 26, 2016
You don’t have to be a die-hard geek to start assembling your holiday list of the future today. We will help you. Over the last year, we visited a number of GE labs and talked to the scientists and engineers working there. The result is a short list of goodies that could make it to market soon.
 

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MEMS at Work: Tiny Switches Could Support Next-Generation Wireless Networks

March 17, 2014

Scientists working in GE labs have developed tiny electrical switches thinner than a human hair that can transmit kilowatts of power. They are called micro-electro-mechanical systems, or MEMS.

The technology’s DNA is built around industrial applications, and MEMS could help reduce waste heat and power consumption in medical devices, aviation systems and other GE products.

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In the Company of MEMS: They Do the Hard Work While You Play

January 15, 2014

MEMS are the Cinderellas of the electronic world. They do a lot of hard work, but get very little recognition.

The tiny chips, their full name is micro-electro-mechanical systems, can sense mechanical motion and convert that motion into electrical signals. “Just about everybody has them in their cellphones,” says Nicholas Yost, electronics technician at GE Global Research. These sensors, accelerometers and gyroscopes can detect the right screen orientation in smartphones, sense motion in Wii controllers, and even deploy airbags in cars.

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