Just in time to deflect attention from real issues such as the Gulf oil spill comes a pressing new crisis: Silly Bandz. Schools across the country have banned the popular rubber bracelets ...

Silly Bandz, brightly colored, polymorphous rubber bands, will soon be the subject of a new “addictive physics-based catapult gameplay.” In other words: Silly Bandz iPhone app! There has never ...

When I walked into Fayetteville’s The Village Toy Shop last week in a casual search for Silly Bandz, there wasn’t a cheap, colorful plastic bracelet in sight. But I immediately joined a line ...

"All of a sudden, I heard about Silly Bandz from parents," Principal Alfonso Orsini said. "Then I talked to teachers, and they had already told kids, 'Don't bring them in; it's a distraction from ...

They are Silly Bandz — silicone, die-molded rubber bands intended to be worn as bracelets. But that’s not all there is to these little pieces of jewelry. They pop back into a fun shape when ...

IT wasn’t until some elementary schools banned Silly Bandz, those colorful plastic bracelets that are the latest fad among the pencil-box set, that Ramona Sidlo, who is 30, wanted them for herself.

Kids have gone crazy for Silly Bandz, and they wear them everywhere — except, in more and more cases, to school. As the academic year gets underway, administrators across the country are banning ...

If you haven't spent time in playgrounds recently, you might not know about Silly Bandz, the colorful silicone rubber bands that come in hundreds of styles. Shaped like animals, numbers ...

"I have the hottest toy, the hottest fashion product on earth. All the right people like Silly Bandz. Everyone asks who my publicist is. I don't have one. We don't advertise. All we do is viral ...

Plus, they are low-tech — no charger needed here. The most-well-known brand of bandz is Silly Bandz, made by Ohio-based Brainchild Products, which claims to be the inventor of the bandz.

The latest tyke trend to take hold on the college scene are the ingeniously simple pieces of rubber known collectively as Silly Bandz. Your wrist used to just be that thing that kept your hand on ...

Childlike wonder bounds across the seven-song project, from the Dr. Seuss-themed title to the bubbly synths and references to Silly Bandz. But it was “Yucky Blucky Fruitcake,” named after the ...