At the grocery store, I was searching among the krackly krumblies and the flaky flips for my favorite cereal when a lady with pretty white hair rolled up and asked if I remember yo-yos. She was in one ...

Now may not be the best time in human history to be in the business of selling $150 yo-yos. This is a fact known by no less than the remarkable Dr. Yo, the San Francisco yo-yo inventor who, for four ...

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 ...

The man behind me in the queue was trying to be helpful: “It’s true, though, right? They are used as weapons in Asia. I go there a lot and I’ve seen them do it—they’re lethal.” He made a sudden ...

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 ...