Known as slap bracelets, the accessories were handed out to about 160 students.

A common example of a bistable structure is a slap bracelet.

Each team is given a slap bracelet that serves as their baton throughout the race.

Slap bracelets, like other fads, are almost certainly doomed to a short life.

It's merely an invitation to share the latest in children's fashion: slap bracelets.

The thought of putting your identity into an updated slap bracelet might make some users feel uneasy.

“All D&G needed this afternoon were arms full of slap bracelets.

But slap bracelets only cost $2.50 - a cheap chotchke for recession-haunted times.

Mr. Murtha knew the slap bracelets would be the latest rage.

Grab your clear cola and slap bracelets!

The winning designs were the P-Per and an E-paper slap bracelet.

Conservative youth activism beer koozies and slap bracelets:

A rumor emerged that "slap bracelets" caused bleeding and puncture wounds and thus fell out of style.

Nixie is a drone that unfolds into a quadcopter and is worn as a slap bracelet.

The Reflex is essentially a dressed-up slap bracelet with a slim watch inside, shiny lights on the outside, and a so-very-big $150 price tag.

The patent doesn't specifically refer to the device as a smartwatch and instead envisions it as an electronic type of slap bracelet.

In Scandinavia, reflective bracelets, commonly worn by pedestrians in the dark season, are often made as slap bracelets.

More recently, slap bracelets have been used as trouser clips, worn on the lower legs of cyclists to prevent trousers from being tangled in the chain.

Short-Lived Craze Expected Like other crazes in the toy business, slap bracelets are almost certainly doomed to a short life.

Now they're getting 30 to 50 each night, he said, a step up from his first business venture as a third grader, selling decal tattoos and slap bracelets.

The slap bracelet was invented by Wisconsin teacher Stuart Anders and sold under the brand name "Slap Wrap".

A sure source for slap bracelets is the flea market on Sundays in the schoolyard of Intermediate School 44, Columbus Avenue at 76th Street.

As well as the touch-sensitive display, the application says it would include 'a communication link, allowing two-way communication between the slap bracelet and the portable electronic device.'

In the process I came across the young designer Wes Gordon and his chinchilla slap bracelets — a divine combination of 1980s trend item and 1980s excess.

The toy, a slap bracelet, is a thin strip of metal covered by woven fabric or paperand wraps into the bracelet when the wrist is struck with it.

Once the bottle disappears, the labels double as snap bracelets.

(CBS) - Remember those snap bracelets that are flat one minute, but roll up around your wrist like a watch?

A slap bracelet (or snap bracelet) is a bracelet consisting of layered, flexible stainless steel bistable spring bands sealed within a fabric, silicone, or plastic cover.

Most recently, the band's single "Powerspace Snap Bracelet" was featured in SPIN, who also reviewed their album, and the band was profiled in Aquarian magazine.

The songs "Prologue: Adam Beckett", "Powerspace Snap Bracelet", "Right On, Right Now", and "It Smells Like Electricity In Here" were all featured on the Houston, We Have A Party EP.