In 2016, the State Post Bureau published a report stating that approximately 780 million items were delivered by express couriers during the 2015 Singles Day period (November 11 16), with more than 3 billion woven bags, 9.922 billion packaging cartons, and 16.985 billion meters of adhesive tape used. The length of adhesive tape used could go round the equator 425 times.

It uses a pressure sensitive adhesive to do it.

I made a whole installation out of blue tape blue painters' tape.

Unfortunately, this tape isn't long enough it's only a 25 foot tape.

Duct tape.

Roll that tape.

So, I'll put a measuring tape here, measuring tape here, move it back over to here.

And these tin particles were deposited on the tape heads and were crashing the tape heads.

Europe s Red Tape Economy

Is this your tape recorder?

You put a little sticky tape.

The masking tape will hold it.

This tape recorder is not new.

He erased his speech from the tape.

Because of that, I became interested in blue tape, so in San Francisco, at C.C., I had a whole exhibition on blue tape.

This has inspired the design of the first self cleaning dry adhesive the patent issued, we're happy to say.

Then he said, Do you have gaffer's tape?

I think we could roll the tape, admin.

I have a tape of yours at home.

Woman That's why I use enough masking tape.

And I'm really pleased to report to you today that the first synthetic self cleaning, dry adhesive has been made.

These tuned structures allow the spines, friction pads and ultimately the adhesive hairs to grab onto very challenging, difficult surfaces.

Export procedures have been simplified to reduce red tape.

Well I'm really excited today to show you the newest version of a robot, Stickybot, using a new hierarchical dry adhesive.

It's a little bit like the days when we all had Beatles albums or Eagles albums and we'd make a copy of that on a cassette tape, and let our friends copy that cassette tape, and pretty soon, with successive generations that tape sounds like garbage.

Just a piece of barrier tape construction stuff in Italy.

I said, What? He said, Do you have gaffer's tape?

Everything I do is word for word off a tape.

The input and the output was by teletype tape at first.

You then exercise it, as what you saw on that tape.

I was always sending messages to my future self using tape recorders.

And Chris, if you could take the end of that tape measure?

And here's the simplest version in nature, and here's my collaborator Ron Fearing's attempt at an artificial version of this dry adhesive made from polyurethane.

The receiving station routinely acquires and stores data in the digital tape archives.

Paul Sereno Let's get this tape measure on him. Put it right there.

It's been taped with tape that we even stopped using in the U.K.

And now it can go on other surfaces because of the new adhesive that the Stanford group was able to do in designing this incredible robot.

He begins this speech which was tape recorded in Cambridge shortly before he died.

Like if we had a piece of tape now, we'd peel it this way.

They peel away from the surface like you'd peel away a piece of tape.

And, Chris, if I could have you up here? I have a tape measure.

Then we'd have to break into his dorm room and then erase the tape?

He got together in his lab 300 men, a measuring tape, and a movie camera.

I want him to think of this kind of dictionary as an eight track tape.

Participants should bring a plug adapter kit for shavers, tape recorders and other small appliances.