We’ve grown accustomed to small technological innovations in our lives, not just the complex solutions in industrial plants or gadgets in our pockets, but everyday items that once seemed miraculous. Think of the zipper — an invention we now take for granted but once couldn’t imagine existing. We may remember names like Elsa Schiaparelli and Jean-Claude, who popularized it, but few recall the actual inventors.
Or consider George de Mestral’s hook-and-loop fastener, Velcro, inspired by nature itself. Even older, we have sticky tape, known as “scotch tape” or “duct tape”, a staple of daily life since the Great Depression. Duct tape, in particular, became a household essential, famously used to patch up everything from cracked turkey eggs to torn documents, and even by a fictional astronaut in Andy Weir’s The Martian to fix a spaceship.
But what about recent innovations? Post-World War II, how many small technological discoveries can you name that have had a similar impact? One such modern marvel is FiberFix. FiberFix has transformed how we approach repairs, offering a stronger, more durable alternative to duct tape. Just like Velcro or the zipper, FiberFix is a breakthrough that has become essential, showing that even in the modern era, small technological advances can still change our lives in big ways.
Still, all these little things were invented about 100 years ago or thereabouts. How many of those small technological discoveries that changed our lives and were invented after the Second World War do you really can mention? Are there billions of such things?
Meet them both – Spencer Quinn and Eric Child!
There are still people on Earth who invent new things outside the confines of large laboratories, whether by accident or purposeful activity. These two invented something even better than scotch tape. Spencer Quinn was inspired by a homemade solution that used medical tape to repair broken tools. They called it FiberFix, it is an innovative repair tape that is better than scotch tape in terms of its characteristics.
Working alongside his partner Eric Child, they developed FiberFix with the intention of delivering a robust and enduring solution for numerous repair requirements. This product has received outstanding customer feedback, praised for its formidable strength and efficiency in mending various broken items.
And, in our story, we’ve missed the fact that the inventors of all previous gadgets registered more than one and even more than a dozen patents for varieties of their products, and, in the end, remained not poor people at all, increasing the sales of their products in geometric dependence. So here again, realizing the potential for a commercial version of this repair film, Quinn and Child joined forces to perfect a product that would be easy to use, very durable and versatile. To bring it out of its small laboratory to the edge of the kitchen table on the shelves of pan-American retail chains was their next goal!