Even the Pope now carries rubber

When Cheong Choon Ng had the idea, which would make him rich, he still made his money with the destroying of cars. Ng accomplished Nissan Crashtests in the USA as an engineer for the vehicle manufacturer. Its at that time 9 and 12 years old daughters tinkered gladly bracelets from small rubber bands, which proved for Ng themselves as difficult - he found his fingers too thick. Thus he devised a tool, with which the technology remotely reminding of crochet let itself simplify: a “loom”  for rubber bands. The first prototype still consisted of wood and pin wall pins. It called its invention Rainbow Loom, its daughter suggested, the idea to marked out.

First the rubber bands and tools, Ng let which produce on own bill in China, sold themselves not at all well. Its daughters with particularly manufactured YouTube videos for the idea promoted. , Ng had invested 10,000 dollar, its own savings.

With Rainbow Loom bracelets until today were sighted: Pope Franziskus, Kate Middleton, prince William and prince Harry, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Miley Cyrus, David Beckham, Julia Roberts, Barack Obamas's daughter Sasha, king Felipe of Spain, princess Victoria of Sweden, Emma Watson. The US-Late-Night-Talker Jimmy Kimmel off it shot the bird let itself a complete suit of rubber bands make, with which it arose then in its show. It consist now “to 98 percent of rubber”, joked Kimmel and added, he does not know at all “why the people all in such a way about child labour excites himself”. Kimmels suit is not the only rubber band article of clothing - also there are bikinis and Pumps from Loom of volume meanwhile.