This weekend, June 19-21, will see the 12th year of the Duct Tape Festival in Avon Ohio. This festival, which celebrates “all things duct tape” will feature a parade, music, magic and duct tape fashion. The festival is sponsored by the Duck brand of duct tape and admission is free. Click here for the official […]
The photo of an airline worker applying what looks like duct tape to the cowling of an EasyJet jetliner went viral after it was posted by a passenger on Twitter. Click here to see the picture and to hear an explanation as to what he was actually doing.
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. […]
Lifehacker has this handy “how to” for securing coiled cables with duct tape and then removing them cleanly. It is a little “origami like” but it works great. Use multiple colors for color coding cable types and lengths.
We normally stay away from duct tape crime stories here, but a recent piece on Dateline caught our attention. Correspondent Andrea Canning shows viewers how to escape if they are ever tied up with duct tape. You can see it by clicking here.
A suspicious looking device taped to an overpass railing on Atlanta’s Downtown Connector caused police to close the highway for two hours while the bomb squad detonated the device. No one was sure what was taped to the bridge, but drivers caught in an hours-long traffic tie up spent the afternoon clogging alternate routes through […]
Travelling with small children is always stressful and making a hotel room child safe can really be a challenge. Adding a small roll of gaffers tape to your luggage can make it easier. No, I’m not talking about taping the child to the wall. Here are some real good ideas. Pad sharp corners on furniture […]
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 […]
A recent article in the New York Times speculates that the original name for the transparent tape we call Scotch tape, was originally intended as a slur, since in the 1920’s “Scotch” was used as a synonym for “cheap”. The term was apparently applied by a painter who found that the tape didn’t have enough […]
The best known duct tape hack in history, by far, was the saving of the lives of the three Apollo 13 astronauts after they suffered a catastrophic explosion during their 2013 lunar mission. How the problem was solved was featured in the movie Apollo 13. Now Gizmodo has released actual images of the fix and […]