It isn’t that Tim Gardner has nothing to do. He has a job at Walmart and a steady girlfriend. But the Lehighton man still finds time to knot thousands and thousands of rubber bands together and ...

The problems that you might have with a Stretch Shelf start with the realization that you need storage space for something more than a couple of books. So you try and stretch out the rubber band to ...

"I wanted to create a new shoe and strap system for stretching and exercising anywhere without the hassle of using a gym or trainer," said an inventor, from New Orleans, La., "so I invented the E Z ...

Making rubber bands in the U.S. takes a lot of flexibility these days. Companies in Thailand and China, benefiting from lower labor costs, have grabbed much of the U.S. market for rubber bands.