Convenient as it is for fastening things shut, Velcro - typically comprised of tiny, nylon hooks and loops that easily adhere together - or other brands of hook and loop fasteners can be a pain to ...

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 standard ...

Velcro Brand has a few harsh words for people calling all “hook and loop” fasteners “Velcro.” The company that makes the nylon hook and loop fasteners for enclosures on clothes, shoes, bags and more ...

Born in the tiny town of Saint-Saphorin-sur-Morges in 1907, George de Mestral filed his first patent at the age of 12, for a toy airplane. “He was driven to invent,” says Fraser Cameron, president and ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Plenty of products last for 50 years, but few have the staying power of Velcro fasteners. The signature sound of Velcro hook-and-loop tape being torn apart rippled along a parade ...

Inventors are an odd bunch, but it takes a seriously enquiring mind to think about improving something as old and venerable as Velcro. 66 year old Leonard Duffy has come up with a modern alternative, ...

Hook and loop fasteners made of spring steel have now been developed at the Institute of Metal Forming and Casting of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen. These fasteners are resistant to chemicals ...

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Researchers in Germany have created a new type of fastener system made from steel that may be useful in a range of settings, including hospitals and the aviation industry. Borrowing its design from ...

There are less than two weeks left to enter Newsround's Absolute Genius inventions competition. To get your brains ticking, Joe's been finding out who came up with the idea of the Velcro fastener - ...