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In 1941, Swiss engineer George de Mestral was coming back from a hunting trip with his dog when he noticed that some seeds kept sticking to his clothes and his dog's fur. He observed that they contained several "hooks" that caught on anything with a loop, and from studying this plant, seven years later, he invented the hook and loop fastener, which he named Velcro.
De Mestral's concept of taking inspiration from nature, imitating and replicating the behavior of biological organisms, was popularized by Janine Benyus in her book Biomimicry - Innovation Inspired by Nature (1997), in which the author introduces three aspects that relate creation and human innovation with nature.
