Hi, I'm Cody Gough with a special sponsored podcast episode from Curiosity.com.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

This episode is sponsored by EMD Performance Materials, a business of Merck, KGAA, Darmstadt, Germany.

And it's the third episode in a five-part series we're doing

to help you learn about how science and technology

are being applied to drive innovation and change the world.

Today, you'll get a sneak peek at some super cool cutting edge

technology that's being worked on right now from holograms and reflective

displays to photonic quantum computing. You'll also learn about the surprisingly wide range of technology we need to develop

to make driverless cars as safe and reliable as we want them to be.

We recorded this conversation live on the showroom floor at CES 2019, the

Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. And our guest is Owen Lossman, the head of

Performance Materials Venture Fund M ventures. His unit looks for forward-thinking companies that make sense to partner with and invest in as they innovate and develop new technology.

Basically, Owen's job is to figure out what's the next big thing and then help everyone work together

to actually make that thing happen. Pretty cool stuff.

Also cool is that Owen has a strong background as a chemist. If it sounds like there's a lot of science going on in

his organization, that's because there is. So having a background in a field like

chemistry is pretty handy for this type of work, as you're about to hear.

We asked Owen about what kind of technologies they've invested in recently and here's what he told us.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

So we've invested in companies from like holographic, you direct view holograms so for example this

table would be projecting an image we would be able to see a 3D image without wearing

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