Rubber Bands

Geek Out

Bring This Ruler To A Rubber Band Fight

10:20AM June 16, 2011 | Casey Chan

Classroom warfare is tough. You have teachers hounding your stash, cute girls to impress, punk kids coming up with punkier ways to punk you – basically a lot to worry about. That’s why you need this rubberband shooting ruler. More »

Computing

Why Rubber-Banding My Power Brick Is The Smartest Thing Ever

7:00AM January 22, 2011 | Joe Brown

There were 15 of us clustered around a not-large-enough table at CES, almost all plugged into identical power adapters. I put a rubber band around mine to keep from mixing it up with somebody else’s. Turns out, I’m a genius. More »

Lightning Review: The $US500 Rubber Band Gatling Gun

3:00AM November 13, 2010 | John Herrman

Landing a well-aimed rubber band – in the coffee, in the hair bun, in the ear – is one of the great pleasures of working in an office. So, how about about 100 of them? More »

Rubber Band Gun Will Dominate Any Office Supply Shootout

12:20AM September 15, 2010 | Brian Barrett

You’re still flicking rubber bands with your fingers? My friend, please. Please take a look at this 9kg, eight-barrelled Gatling rubber-band gun. Before you say no to the $US500 price tag, watch it work in this terrifyingly soundtracked video. More »

Gadgets

How To Defeat A Sliding Chain Lock With Only A Rubber Band

2:40PM April 1, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

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Sure, you can use various high-tech methods to sneak into places where you don’t belong, but the MacGyver approaches are so much more fun. Here’s how someone can defeat a sliding chain lock with just a rubber band. More »

Rubber Band Stretch Shelf Is Storage That Can Kill

6:40AM July 28, 2009 | Sean Fallon

The problems that you might have with a Stretch Shelf start with the realisation that you need storage space for something more than a couple of books. More »