Have your kids gotten in on the Silly Bandz craze? The $5 packs of rubber bands in the shapes of animals, letters and other fun items are worn on wrists like bracelets — but educators say this fad has ...

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, with ...

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 the ...

When does a fad become a meme? When people begin describing the world in terms of it. And so it is with Silly Bandz, which, for the uninitiated, are rubber bands made into shapes. They come in themed ...

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. “I ...

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 been a ...

Hosts explore the nostalgia and underground economy of Silly Bandz collecting.

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 to ban ...

In December I got a notice that the ubiquitous Silly Bandz were coming to video game format. Full disclosure: I was skeptical that it could work as a video game; however, with a child spending ...

Dr. Manny walked into the office this morning huffing and puffing about something new that was bothering him, so against my better judgment, I asked him about it. He pointed to his wrist and said, ...

Cincinnati, OH - Bringing holiday joy to boys and girls of all ages, video game publisher Zoo Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ CM: ZOOG) today announced that Silly Bandz: The Game is coming to iOS devices ...