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 ...

The yo-yo is a toy that's been around since Ancient Greece. And if you've never played with one, these cool yo-yo facts might just convince you to get one! Read on to learn more about this amazing, ...

The yo yo, *** toy with *** history stretching to ancient times, eventually taking the world by storm becoming one of the most iconic children's toys to ever exist. But what did it take to get this ...

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 ...

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 ...

You may never have considered this question: What does a yo-yo look like in space? But now NASA is providing an answer. NASA astronaut Don Pettit performs space yo-yo tricks like “Orbit the Earth” and ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you measure a city by the number of its Chicago icons, this could be Windy City West. For what other town in Oklahoma–or anywhere else for that matter–can boast that it is home to a Frank Lloyd ...

Toys date back to prehistoric times, when children fashioned sticks, rocks and clay into playthings. More sophisticated toys appeared in Ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt. But it wasn’t until the ...

Zach Compton, 11, of Kansas City took second place in his age division for freestyle yo-yoing at a Go Big Skills contest in December, held at the store in Shawnee. SUSAN PFANNMULLER Special to the ...

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 ...