This drop test shows what happens when a rubber band ball reaches extreme size. At 1 ton, the ball behaves more like a shock ...

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 ...

LAUDERHILL, Fla. — Look, over there. Under that blue tarp in a suburban driveway. That thing that’s the size of a Smart car? It’s Joel Waul’s rubber band ball. Waul has spent the last six years ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Nabil “Billy” Kishek admits it. There are days when he dreams of burning the ball. He has thrown up his arms in exhausted frustration and told his brother, “I’m finished.” But such an ...

Since the mid-19th century, stretchy, sometimes colorful, loops of rubber and latex bands have served many purposes in making our lives easier and keeping us organized. They hold newspapers together ...

This extreme test pits a 2 ton axe against a 500kg rubber band ball to see what truly gives first. The impact is far more dramatic than anyone expected. Along the way, the crew pushes through multiple ...