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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

The Bandz are now contraband. Schools in several states, including New York, Texas, Florida and Massachusetts, have blacklisted Silly Bandz, those stretchy, colorful bracelets that are creeping up ...

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 ...

Jeremy King, 9, and Quinn Blackburn, 9, show off their Silly Bandz bracelets at Sweeties Candy Cottage in Huntington. (Newsday Photo / Thomas A. Ferrara / May 5, 2010) The move by some schools ...

Silly Bandz are silicone bracelets that come in dozens of different shapes, from tree frogs to dolphins to geckos. They're hugely popular with kids, reports CBS News senior business correspondent ...

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.

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 ...