Americans hate to give up on garden hoses. We will repair with more duct tape than hose to try to stop leaks. But duct tape comes unglued on dirty, oily, watery surfaces such as a spewing garden hose.

Rescue Tape is a self-fusing silicone tape with no adhesive, the company announced at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas. When stretched and wrapped under tension, it instantly begins fusing ...

You don't see flypaper hanging around much anymore. Fly paper (also called fly tape or ribbon) caught on in the mid-1800s. Originally the ribbons were coated with a sticky substance and a poison, ...