tall and has a circumference of 25 feet. It took five years for Joel Waul of Lauderhill to create, weighs more than 9,400 pounds, and contains approximately 720,000 rubber bands. The outer layers ...

It isn’t that Tim Gardner has nothing to do. He has a job at Walmart and a steady girlfriend. But the Lehighton man still finds time to knot thousands and thousands of rubber bands together and ...

Once, rubber bands bound things together. Then they became makeshift weapons: Loop one end around a thumb, pull the other and pop at your little brother's big head. At some point, someone -- maybe a ...

Building a huge ball out of more than 175,000 rubber bands is dangerous business. Really. “The rubber bands … sometimes they’ll break. That hurts,” said Steve Milton, whose 4,594-pound rubber band ...

The “World’s Largest Rubber-Band Ball” rolled away from its Lauderhill birthplace Thursday. Standing with dozens of spectators, the ball’s creator, 28-year-old Joel Waul, looked on as the 9,034-pound ...

A Florida man hopes to make it into the record books with his massive rubber band ball. Joel Waul has been twisting, wrapping and stretching rubber bands for years in the hope of building a ...

RUSTON, La. (AP) - Will Love’s dream of breaking a Guinness World Record takes shape nightly through loop knots formed into chains of rubber bands wrapped around a garden hose collector until they can ...

As the weather chills, it's time for some fun with cold temperatures. Most of us already know how tough rubber can be, but rubber after it's come into contact with liquid nitrogen is a different story ...

Plenty of us have stuff we have been hanging on to for a long time and maybe need a little push to get rid of. For one East Tennessee man, the recent flood was just that push, after 11-inches of water ...

A good old rubber band may not be the most glamorous office supply, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more versatile tool. Whether it’s keeping pens together or even acting as an impromptu hairband ...

Sometimes it would be helpful if a 3D printed object could stretch & bend. Flexible filament like TPU is one option, but [NagyBig] designed a simple bracelet to ask: how about embedding rubber bands ...