Inspiration can strike without warning. Consider Swiss engineer George de Mestral, who got some burs on his wool socks while walking his dog one fateful day in 1948. As De Mestral pulled off the burs, ...

Velcro was originally available only in black, but even when it started coming in multiple colors, 1960s fashionistas wanted nothing to do with it. iStock Technically called “hook-and-loop fastener,” ...

The Velcro company wants people to stop using the word "Velcro" when referring to the Velcro-ish technology on products not actually made by Velcro because it ...

A new material called Metaklett is like hook-and-loop (“Velcro”) made out of steel and much scarier. One side of the material bristles with sharp spikes and the other side has jagged steel brushes.

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 ...