Keith Schacht

Inventor

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.

Why you should listen

Keith Schacht founded Inventables in 2002 with co-founder Zach Kaplan. The firm seeks out new materials, and new uses for new materials, bringing fresh ideas for business products and the world's most amazing toys.

Keith Schacht’s TED talk

15:46

Zach Kaplan + Keith Schacht

Toys and materials from the future

Posted Oct 2008

More news and ideas from Keith Schacht

Business

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: […]

Invention

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 […]