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 ...

Building a huge ball out of more than 175,000 rubber bands is dangerous business. Really. "The rubber bands ... sometimes they'll break. That hurts," said Steve Milton, whose 4,594-pound rubber band ...

LAUDERHILL, Fla. -- 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 ...

The 28-year-old waved off his 6ft 7in masterpiece yesterday as a crane hauled its 9,032lb bulk from his home in Lauderhill, Florida, to a museum, having sold it for an undisclosed sum. Mr Waul's ...

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 ...

tall and has a circumference of 25 feet. It took five years for Joel Waul of Lauderhill to create, weighs more than 9,400 pounds, and contains approximately 720,000 rubber bands. The outer layers ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - The giant rubber-band ball that was a familiar fixture at the Staten Island Children's Museum for nearly 10 years has shrunk. Nicknamed "Timmy Jr.," the ball was created by ...

Everybody always says, "We're an X-year-old startup," but what does that really mean? Which parts of this are good? (Let's admit it, startup tech culture has desirable elements.) Which elements are ...