Velcro Velcro Velcro BVBA is a privately held company that produces fasteners and other products. It is known for being the original patentor of the hook-and-loop fastener, to which it has (over its objections) lent the generic name "velcro." Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral invented his first touch fastener when, in 1941, he went for a walk in the woods and wondered why Burdock seeds clung to his coat and dog. He discovered it could be turned into something useful. He patented it in 1955 and subsequently refined and developed its practical manufacture until its commercial introduction in the late
Acousmatic Room Orchestration System 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 recherches musicales' of Radio France, especially by the composer François Bayle. In an orchestra the spatial experience results from the fact that each musician plays his own part in a specific spatial location