Dancing With The Stars contestant Nancy Grace denied that any inappropriate “parts” were visible outside of her costume when she appeared this week on the dancing competition show. Grace claimed she used gaffers tape and industrial strength underwear to insure that she stayed inside her costume. That’s a lot to ask from a lowly roll […]
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 […]
British magician Robert Bone, a professional mind reader, covers his eyes with gaffers tape during his 90 minute performance and is then able to sense objects in his presence without seeing them. This psychic feat is wowing audiences all over the United Kingdom. You can test the psychic powers of gaffers tape yourself, but we […]
Sam Wills, the comic known as “The Boy With Tape On His Face”, has turned a simple strip of gaffers tape into a career. Wills, a New Zealander, is working to bring mime back to contemporary comedy with a gaffers tape across his mouth. There’s more about this refreshing comedy act here. Tapenews.com is your […]
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 Lynn News (Lynn, UK) offers this dubious advice to owners of nice bicycles that use them to commute in urban areas. “If you do use a good bike to go into town, consider disguising it with gaffers tape” to discourage thieves. Might be easier (and a lot cheaper and less time consuming) to just […]
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 […]
Sebastian Vettel’s million dollar McLaren race car had to count on lowly gaffers tape in order to take the pole in this years’ Belgian Grand Prix. Vettel collided with Pastor Maldonado of the Williams Team during one qualifying session and needed tape to bandage the front wing of his car in order to complete qualifying. […]