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 his ...

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 carefully wrapping and ...

Sometime in early January, I asked my friend Abby how her holidays had been. She launched into a story about the gift she had given her mother. "I gave my mom a new TV for the kitchen," she said. "Her ...

When a three-year-old Zack Hample started collecting elastic bands, his parents doubtless wrote it off as a phase. But three decades on, Zack - now 35 - has created one of the world’s biggest rubber ...

While some of us are busy building airplane models and toy trains, Dean Wade is busy building something much more unusual. Behind Wade's living room, to the side of the kitchen, sitting on several ...

It's over six and a half feet tall, 25 feet in circumference, weighs nearly 10,000 pounds, and everybody says it stinks. No, we're not talking about Kanye West's ego, we're talking about Joel Waul's ...