Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Fun article about the creation of the Rainbow Loom

From 2013:

Ng would work late into the night in the basement of his Detroit home coming up with new patterns in the hopes of impressing his wife. Whenever he'd come up with a new way to weave the rubber bands together, he'd wake her up to show her. "She would wake up at midnight kind of mumbling, "Wow, that's great

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Ng interviewed five factories in China before ultimately selecting one. "I cannot make any mistakes. I knew that a lot of mistakes can be made, but I cannot afford to lose [the money]. I only have one shot, which is very scary,"

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The first order of rubber bands arrived in June 2011 and weighed 2,000 pounds, approximately the weight of a mid-size car