When you’re a geek with preferences on USB cable construction materials and a penchant for buying more than a few directional adapters, organizing the yards upon yards of wiring you’ve accumulated can ...

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, ...

Unless you’re suicidal, when you ride a fixed-gear bike, you’ll want to strap your feet in. Traditionally, this has been done by leather or fabric toe-straps, held open by metal cages, or more ...

Velcro, the “zipperless zipper,” exists on a variety of products from children’s shoes to laptop bags to blood pressure gauges to airplane flotation devices. While the term is used synonymously to ...