E-mail him at [email protected]. Disclosure. Velcro's great, but for when you need that extra hold, there's a new hook and loop fastener made from spring steel in Germany that can pinch together ...

"There's only one Velcro brand. Everything else is just hook and loop."Velcro has its roots in nature. Swiss engineer George de Mestral came up with the design in the 1940s after studying burrs ...

But as even he admits, Velcro is a trademark, so we think it is more appropriate to talk about hook and loop fasteners. In fact, you can see the good-natured official video about the trademark ...

Each hook and loop Velcro fastener is comprised of two pieces of nylon — one piece has a side with a soft, fur-like texture, and the other piece has a side with a prickly texture — that form a ...

As a species, we’ve done a pretty good job at inventing some useful devices. But as clever as we think we are, given sufficient time, natural selection will beat us at our game at almost every turn.

Starting in 1968 and on into the 1980s, shoe companies like Puma, Adidas and Reebok integrated Velcro straps onto children’s shoes. By this point, the patent on the hook-and-loop technology had ...

“There’s only one Velcro brand. Everything else is just hook and loop.” Velcro has its roots in nature. Swiss engineer George de Mestral came up with the design in the 1940s after studying ...

"There's only one Velcro brand. Everything else is just hook and loop." Velcro has its roots in nature. Swiss engineer George de Mestral came up with the design in the 1940s after studying burrs ...