One of the hardest toys to find this holdiay season is the X-Brain, right up there with Furby and Bouncing Tigger. That’s a Yomega X-Brain. As in yo-yo. You know, two discs and an axle that go up and ...

Kids, here is important advice: If you can’t make a yo-yo do magnificent tricks, don’t worry. What? You don’t know what a yo-yo is. Well, sit down for five minutes and listen to someone who used to be ...

June 6 marks National Yo-Yo Day, a celebration of one of the world's oldest and most enduring toys. The date honors the birthday of Donald F. Duncan Sr., the entrepreneur who helped turn the yo-yo ...

Got an extra 400 bucks? How about spending it on a yo-yo? A really nice yo-yo, a state-of-the-art, forged-magnesium-alloy, ultralong-spinning yo-yo. Later this year, Duncan Toys, a seller of ...

U.S. contestant Jake Elliott was crowned a world champion at the 2015 World Yo-Yo Contest. YoYoTricks.com The yo-yo is simple enough and the concept has been around since Greek antiquity. As a child, ...

Few people get to turn a childhood passion into a lifelong career. Musical prodigies can do it. Some athletes. But a kid who does yo-yo tricks? Just ask Yo-Yo Mike. Or, as he’s known at Flambeau ...

Every year on June 6, we celebrate National Yo-Yo Day. It coincides with the birthday of Chicago businessman Donald F. Duncan Sr, who in the 1930s, got into the yo-yo business. Yo-Yo was first sold in ...

Ask Jacob Cross to "walk the dog" or "rock the baby" and he'll quickly move into action. Just don't expect him to reach for a leash or cradle. We're talking yo-yo tricks here, not family tasks. The 15 ...

It’s happened again. Two weeks ago, Brayden Daher, a 5-year-old boy from Bellevue, Wash., was nearly strangled when he got a Yo-Yo Water Ball wrapped around his neck. “He was purple, almost blue, and ...

When you played with a yo-yo, have you ever wondered when and where this toy came from? The truth is, we don’t have an exact answer for either. While historians suggest that the toy likely originated ...

Saturday was the first time that Kathleen Hankinson, 12, a member of the high-tech generation, had ever played with a toy as low-tech as a yo-yo. It took only a few minutes, however, for Kathleen and ...

Yo-yo water balls, the stretchy, rubbery toys that are sold near checkout lines for as little as $1, pose a potential strangulation hazard to children but will not be recalled, according to a federal ...