The Children’s Museum of Houston is sponsoring a Duct Tape Jam from Sept. 29 to Oct. 5. Kids will have opportunities to make both linear rt and crafts items during the five day event. In describing the event, the promotional material refers to lowly duct tape as an “extraordinary invention”. The museum is located at […]
Johnson Controls, along with industrial supply distributor Fastenal, is experimenting with vending machines that dispense construction supplies like safety gloves, goggles and duct tape. The machines, at a Johnson Controls location in Hattiesburg, MS can be accessed by employees using an ID card and they allow the company to keep track of supply consumption through […]
Okay, we’ll have to grudgingly give these guys some credit. The makers of a new tape product with extremely aggressive adhesive have christened the product “Sticky Ass Tape“. The picture on the label is a bucking donkey (ass?) and the product is advertised to bond to metal, wood and more. Unlike most tape distributors web […]
The web site for the ABC affiliate in Salt Lake City, UT, ABC4, shares a video on how to make colorful hair bows from duct tape. They fail to point out the downside of what happens if you make them sticky side out! Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. […]
Doclink, A South Carolina health education non-profit, recently used “Duct Tape A Doc” as a fund raising promotion that involves taping doctors to the wall. Doclink soldstrips of duct tape for $1.00 (3 for $5.00) that were used to tape the doctors to the wall. Here’s the story from The Independent Mail.com. Tapenews.com is your […]
This article caught my eye from the online edition of Broadcast Engineering. The article, titled “Digital Duct Tape” is about tools that broadcast engineers are using to troubleshoot and repair digital video equipment. The thing that resonated with me about the article is how the proliferation of standards for digital video equipment means that we […]
We love duct tape, but that’s not the sort of love that tape was shown at the U.S. Open tennis tournament. BBC blogger Jonathan Overend nominated an attempt to repair a soggy court with duct tape as “The worst moment of the tournament”. Tournament officials used towels, their feet, and finally duct tape in an […]
The Vans Tudor Duct Tape Invitational surfing competition is set to kick off tomorrow in Malibu. If you know why this is called the Duct Tape Invitational, please let us know. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us your interesting tape news and we’ll share it with the […]
Scammers in South Carolina convinced a woman in a gas station parking lot to purchase a brand new Apple laptop at a “volume” discount, and she jumped at a chance to purchase what she thought was a brand new computer for an unbelievable price. When she got her price purchase home she realized that what […]
While searching for the latest news on tape, we came across this article about a subject titled “Ductaigami”. This was a new word to us, but it turns out that the formal term for making artistic and useful items from duct tape has been around for a while. A quick search of Amazon turns up […]