Richard Knerr, co-founder of Wham-O Inc., which unleashed the granddaddy of American fads, the Hula Hoop ... told Mr. Knerr and Melin about a bamboo ring used for exercise in Australia, they ...

Arthur “Spud” Melin, co-founder of Wham-O Inc., which gave the world such leisure icons as the Frisbee, the Hula Hoop and the Superball--along with such duds as Instant Fish--has died.

To keep a Hula-Hoop aloft, it helps to be in shape — literally. Experiments with gyrating, hoop-slinging robots have revealed how these spinning rings stay up despite the pull of gravity.

There's only so many things we can handle at once but eight hula hoops on fire is enough for ... from the longest time spinning the rings to spinning the physically longest rings.

Some version of the Hula-Hoop has been around for millennia, but the popular plastic version was introduced by Wham-O in the 1950s and quickly became a fad. Now, researchers have taken a closer ...

Overlaid video frames reveal that an hourglass-shaped body successfully hula hoops. (Courtesy: NYU’s Applied Math Lab) Popularized in the late 1950s as a child’s toy, the hula hoop is undergoing ...

Getti Kehayova holds the record for spinning the world’s largest hula hoop in the female category with a 5.18 m or 17 feet 0.25-inch ring. Record for balancing the most fire hoops while doing ...