Hook-and-loop fastener Mestral's patent expired, prompting a flood of low-cost imitations from Taiwan, China and South Korea onto the market. Today, the trademark is the subject of more than 300 trademark registrations in over 159 countries. George de Mestral was inducted into the national inventors hall of fame for his invention. The big breakthrough George de Mestral made was to think about hook-and-eye closures on a greatly reduced scale. Hook-and-eye fasteners have been common for centuries, but what was new about hook-and-loop fasteners was the miniaturisation of the hooks and eyes. Shrinking the hooks led to the two other important differences. Firstly,
Acousmatic Room Orchestration System AROS was integrated in places such as the Imperial War Museum in London, the State Grid Pavillon at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai, or the Museum of Future Government Services 2015 in Dubai. Acousmatic Room Orchestration System The Acousmatic Room Orchestration System (AROS) is a multichannel sound system design and an approach of how to playback sound and music in spaces on a multitude of speakers. AROS was developed by the Swiss company Idee und Klang in 2005. Its underlying idea is based on the loudspeaker orchestra (or Acousmonium), which was established in the early 1970s by the ‚Groupe de