Chemical engineers have developed a new type of bandage that is intended to promote healing, especially in challenging issues regarding chronic injuries. Knowing that electrical stimulation can promote healing, these engineers have developed a bandage that can generate a small amount electrical stimulation without an outside power source. The base material for the E-Bandage can […]
Anybody who has worked on a film or video set has seen that tech with a half dozen rolls of tape dangling from his/her waist being everywhere on the set at once. The thing clipped to their belt loop holding that tape is called a “tape lanyard” and they are a snap to make. Here […]
The late Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland was famous for wielding a megaphone on stage as part of his act. People Magazine, in an article about custom designed to showcase custom made urns for the cremated ashes of rock stars, features an urn made to look like the megaphone that Weiland threw across the […]
When Chicago’s Daily Herald photographers Brian Hill or Steve Lundy head toWrigley Field, they make sure that there is a roll of gaffers tape in their photo bag. Click here to read a great article about how this year’s baseball playoffs are photographed for the Herald’s readers.
Sporting a look heretofore known only to broke college students, presidential candidate Jeb Bush appeared at a New Hampshire rally on Sunday with his shoe sole (black) held together with a piece of grey gaffers tape. It is easy to see how this sad image could be a metaphor for the impending end of Bush’s […]
Mark Harrier is one of the audio techs for video broadcasts of Professional Bull Riders Assoc. competitions. One of his biggest challenges is getting broadcast quality audio directly from the competitors as they are bucked while riding on the back of raging bulls. He uses lots of gaffers tape to hold the wireless mic transmitters […]
Fireengineering.com recommends that every firefighter should carry a roll of one inch first aid tape in his or her pocket. A recent article on their web site shares some of the purposes that this tape serves. A comparable product and one that can meet all of the needs of the first aid tape is one […]
Photographers who rear lighting on their subjects have to deal with the strange phenomenon of glowing ears when the lighting shines through their models’ ears from behind. The larger the ears of the models, the odder the effect. You can minimize this “ear glow” phenomenon by placing small strips of gaffers tape on the back […]
It is the wedding season and wedding photographers all over the country are gearing up for their busiest time of the year. Fstoppers.com has a list of essential items that every busy photographer needs to have within arms reach. Not surprisingly, the list includes gaffers tape and Sharpie markers. Click here for their list. […]
After being found guilty of harassing her neighbors (including making 999 harassment phone calls) British model Tanya Pascolini was ordered to not speak to any of her neighbors for a period of five years. Pascolini’s response was that she thought it all but impossible to go five years without speaking to her neighbors unless she […]