There May Be a Way to Use Your Keyboard in VR.Covering your eyes with a virtual-reality headset has its downsides—chief among them, perhaps, inability to see the real world. For many people, that makes the prospect of typing on a physical keyboard pretty tough. And even if you touch-type, heaven help you finding the keyboard again if you ever take your hands away from the keys to do something...

Planetarians is giving a second life to wasted food, and tackling child nutrition and obesity at the same time.This company uses an extrusion and "steam explosion" technology to turn 'waste' food, namely byproducts of the food industry that don't otherwise get eaten by humans, into high protein, high fiber snacks that can help address the rising trend of child obesity. By starting with low-cost...

Lincoln motor company is putting continental’s ‘head-up display’ into production for the first time, allowing drivers to communicate even better with their vehicles in the future. head-up displays show all relevant information in the driver’s field of vision, reducing driver distraction and therefore making a significant contribution to enhanced comfort and safety.Continental’s ‘head up d...

Austin makes a great point in noticing how the future of sports footwear is in making right and left shoes that aren’t mirror images of each other. See the GIF below to notice how in a sport like fencing, the right and left leg have different pressure zones, resulting in a need where each shoe has a different role to play. His solution? Differently designed shoes for the left and right foot. U...

Priced at $17 per share just seven years ago, the Tesla IPO ended up being a total bargain for anyone lucky enough to get in.However, this view comes with the benefit of plenty of hindsight – and even Elon Musk would tell you that it wasn’t always obvious that the company would be around in 2017. There were periods of time when layoffs were rampant, the company’s payroll was covered by credi...

It’s no secret that computer software engineers get paid a lot. But how savvy you are with a computer affects your salary in jobs far outside computer science fields, according to a new report by the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program.The study found that in the last decade an increasingly broad range of jobs requires employees to work with computers on a daily basis, whether...

At at Tesla launch event last night, a surprise popped out of its upcoming electric semi-truck as Elon Musk announced the resurrection of the car that started it all – the Tesla Roadster. Based on prototype performance, the next generation Roadster is on track to zoom from 0-60 mph in under 2 seconds, have a top speed of 250+ mph and a single charge range of 620 miles.Tesla's Roadster first br...

These venture bets on startups that "returned the fund," making firms and careers, were the result of research, strong convictions, and patient follow-through. Here are the stories behind the biggest VC home runs of all time.In venture capital, returns follow the power law — 80% of the wins come from 20% of the deals.[click to enlarge]Great venture capitalists invest knowing they’re going to...

The Atlas robot is known for being used in the DARPA Robotics Challenge in 2015. Alphabet sold Boston Dynamics to SoftBank earlier this year after acquiring it in 2013.A robotics company that Alphabet recently sold to SoftBank on Thursday posted a new video that shows one of its more widely known robots doing a backflip.While some other robots have been shown performing backflips in the past, B...