EUGENE, Ore. -- It's a stretch to break the record, but Steve Milton wants to make the world's largest ball of rubber bands. Milton, 26, an estimator for a local insulation company, was showing ...

So, the old TV still worked, but was lopsided where it had melted and her mom had propped it up with a clothespin to make it level again. We shook our heads and chuckled at her mom's ingenuity.

Shake your maraca to keep a beat! Make a banjo 1. Cut your rubber bands in half, so they become long, stretchy strings. Tape the ends to the inside of the tissue box. 2.

Waul got the idea six years ago, when he saw a Ripley's television special that showed the then-largest rubber band ball being dropped into the desert from an airplane. "I just thought it was the ...

Olmec rubber ball undergoing analysis . Rubber was an essential material for many people of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, who used it to make objects such as sandals and rubber bands ...

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 ...