"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Army has a problem with Velcro. It’s too noisy. And its little loops get clogged with dust from the Afghan and Iraqi deserts. The so-called “hook-and-loop” fastener was added to ...

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.

Well, Velcro Brand has had enough of this nonsense. The company, famous for its hook-and-loop fasteners, released a music video on Monday asking the public to quit calling everything "velcro." ...

Velcro, also commonly known as hook-and-loop tape, works so well because the hooks on one side of the tape grab onto some of the many loops on the other side. The hooks are designed to be more rigid ...

BRUNSWICK, OH, UNITED STATES, May 20, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Grizzly Supply, a new brand aiming to redefine the cable ...

When [Rich] saw a bike light that had an integrated hook-and-loop fastener – think Velcro – built in to its enclosure, he thought to himself, ‘I could do that too.’ ...