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 ...

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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 ...

The company has big plans for Fall 2010 -- Silly Pails, a $19.95 lunchbox with 72 Silly Bandz inside. The product, says Walsh, will have to keep stretching and extending itself. How Much Longer ...

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 ...

For all the kids who live to have Silly Bandz dangling from their wrists - and for all the grown-ups befuddled by the rubber-band bracelets that have taken over pop culture - here's the news ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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.

"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 ...

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 ...