10 Unbelievable Billion Dollar Inventions


#5 Big Mouth Billy Bass

This is a gag that will delight any morose teenager with a frown. The Big Mouth Billy Bass is an animatronic fish that sings songs with its mouth and wiggles its tail. The singing fish was a huge hit in the late '90s and early 2000s. More than one million fish at about $20 a piece were sold in the year 2000 alone.

#4 Silly Bandz

This one is for all the tweeny girls who love cute rubber objects on their wrists and hair. Many celebrities are also spotted wearing these squishy things, most recently, the dashing Jake Gyllenhaal was seen donning a silly band on his wrist in an interview for the movie “Love And Other Drugs” and they spent half the interview talking about these bands. No wonder these things are famous!

With a pack of 24 that sells for about $5 and packets of 12 for about $2.50 the toy empire has made over 100 million.

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