Alternative Uses
Duct tape's widespread popularity and multitude of uses has earned it a strong place in popular culture, and has inspired a vast number of creative and imaginative applications.
Duck Products, the manufacturer of Duck brand duct tape (Duck Tape), annually sponsors a competition that offers a college scholarship to the person who creates the most stylish prom formal wear made from Duck Tape.
Duct tape occlusion therapy (DTOT): is a method intended to treat warts by covering them with duct tape for an extended period. The evidence for its effectiveness is poor; thus it is not recommended as routine treatment.
As a quick fix, duct tape can be used as a temporary bandage, until proper medical treatment and bandages can be applied to a wound.
Recently, duct tape has proven to fix Apple's iPhone 4 dropped call issue, as an alternative to Apple's own rubber case.
In 1995, Britannia Yacht Club in Ottawa, Ontario hosted its first annual Duct tape challenge, in which boats such as 'Pontiac Pete', 'HMS Anna Nicole' and 'Duck Blind' constructed of unusual materials such as cardboard and duct tape compete for best design, best battleship and seaworthiness.
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