EUGENE, Ore. -- It's a stretch to break the record, but Steve Milton wants to make the world's largest ball of rubber bands. Milton, 26, an estimator for a local insulation company, was showing his ...

35-year-old has devoted 32 years of his life to creating a giant ball made of elastic rubber bands. Which means he started making the ball when he was just three or four years old. There’s something ...

Sometime in early January, I asked my friend Abby how her holidays had been. She launched into a story about the gift she had given her mother. "I gave my mom a new TV for the kitchen," she said. "Her ...

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 ...

What happens when a 300-pound ball is dropped from 50 feet in the air? A certain amount of destruction, naturally, but also some science-based learning. This is the third year for the Mid-America ...

While some of us are busy building airplane models and toy trains, Dean Wade is busy building something much more unusual. Behind Wade's living room, to the side of the kitchen, sitting on several ...

It's over six and a half feet tall, 25 feet in circumference, weighs nearly 10,000 pounds, and everybody says it stinks. No, we're not talking about Kanye West's ego, we're talking about Joel Waul's ...