A serial entrepreneur and investor, Keith Schacht co-founded Inventables, a hothouse for innovation, and Mystery Science, the most widely used science curriculum in America.
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Trendables — 6 products that can
March 13, 2009
-able, everyone’s favorite “can-do” adjective suffix, is enjoying a revival. 20-some years since its heyday, we’ve found it stitched to no less than six modern product names, deriving for them a certain adroitness that a lonesome noun mightn’t have provided. And two of these products, as it happens, have been demoed at TED. 1. Siftables: […]
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Toys from the future: The Inventables guys on TED.com
October 30, 2008
The Inventables guys, co-founders Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht, demo some amazing new materials and how we might use them. Look for squishy magnets, odor-detecting ink, “dry” liquid and a very surprising 10-foot pole. (Recorded February 2005 in Monterey, California. Duration: 15:46.) Watch Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht’s 2005 demo on TED.com, where you […]
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