An online advertisement implied there was a security reason for looping rubber bands on doorknobs. It led to a lengthy slideshow article. Forty-two pages later, the story didn't even mention ...

There’s probably nothing more ho-hum than a rubber band—a classic, ubiquitous object of fidgeting and flinging, they’re useful in certain emergencies but hard to get excited about.

Whether out of mischief or just plain boredom, most of us have fired a rubber band slingshot at some point. It’s a pretty thoughtless task: Hook a rubber band around your thumb, stretch it ...

Ever noticed that a rubber band gets warmer when it’s stretched? The bands also get cooler when allowed to snap back to relaxed length? [Ben Krasnow] noticed, and he built a rubber band cooled ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. It’s hard to argue with the simplicity and design of a rubber band. I mean, it has a ...