Rey-Elbo_445702a8fc23d860c0d0e8cde70a7d94WHILE walking with his dog on a Swiss mountain range sometime in 1941, George De Mestral (1907-1990), a Swiss electrical engineer, noticed that the bottom of his pants as well as his dog’s body was covered with plant burrs. He had a hard time removing the burrs that led him to an intellectual, curious inquiry.

Through a microscope, De Mestral discovered the burrs contained hundreds of very tiny hooks that led him to create a new fastening system, now popularly known as the Velcro. Over the years, we’ve seen and enjoyed the benefits of many products that copied the characteristics and features of nature. This approach is called biomimetics, also known as biomimicry.

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