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Did you know VELCRO was developed by mistake? Well not a real mistake. It was developed by George deMestral, Seemed he wanted to develop a product which worked like burs from the Burdock that attached to his clothes and his dogs fur. That was in 1941. After that, he tried and tried to come up with something that could mimic those burs. In 1955 he took out a loan of $150,000.00 and succeeded to come up with a viable product. The VELCRO line was release and immediately fell on its face. It was when NASA found it extremely helpful holding things from floating around in space capsules. The rest is history. VELCRO is not actually a product but instead a company name. A little fiction and fact from Bob's Almanac. Now about the product. Unfortunately I'm confined to a power wheelchair. Even so, I like to continue with my hobbies. Photography was my major in college and when I left I had a Masters of Fine Art with photography. I soon made some wise decisions and I thankfully made a name in the industry. I know nothing of videography. Just a few miles from me lives a Videographer who attended college the same time I was there. Not close friends but buddies I guess you could say. I needed his help. I want to mount a couple or three action cameras to my wheelchair. Since being confined to the chair the majority of my friends have been leaving. I'm sure it's because they really don't know how to react to the chair. I want to put on digital film my daily life in the chair. I want to let my friends I haven't changed, well perhaps my height. Though I have a lot of accessories for the cameras to mount them to my chair my friend suggested some VELCRO patches which could be used on the areas less accessible to me to mount a camera, a cheap camera, be assured. Well it worked out well. We stuck a VELCRO strip just about ground level to record some footage we could use in the final film I want to make. I've been doing that since I got the strips. They worked out so well I found other uses. I go out at night in the chair. It has a thirteen mile range and fortunately my friends, my grocery store, drug store, pizza joint and we can't forget the local tavern. There are no lights on the chair. They have a kit for it but they also want to charge almost $300.00 and that doesn't include any back lights. I have a lot of flash lights in the house. A few years back I purchased here at Amazon a two pack of DURACELL flashlights. They are very powerful and when tested they get out around twenty feet producing a lot of light. They do fall off after the estimated length of twenty feet. They are so lite that I put a Velcro patch on the chair body and connected the flashlights. It worked out so well I put the other flashlight on the opposite side of my chair. Here at Amazon they have blinking tail lights but I found a good pair at Walmart. Again I cut a VELCRO patch to size and now I have back lights. My first trip out at night was a great success. Besides the street lighting I had both side lights and the tail light on. On my way back I ran into a neighbor who suggested I should get better lighting on the back. He said that in certain places there are no sidewalks and more back lighting would be better. He held me up while he rummaged around in his garage and came back with a light bar. He held it up against the back of my chair and said he could fit it properly. The problem with the bar is it isn't wired for batteries. He want's to connect it to the chair battery. I didn't tell him yet I don't want it. Besides it would void my chair warranty. So there must be other things that I can stick these VELCRO strips to. I'll update the review when I find them. This review was written without any financial incentives. I neither receive a free product nor any discounts. Full Amazon retail was paid. I enjoy writing these product reviews and I sure hope you enjoy reading them. If you have any ideas that could improve them or you just want to leave a message you can get me through Amazon. If you do enjoy my reviews pleas click the helpful box. You can look at my Profile page and if you care too become a follower. MrBob