2000-08-26 04:00:00 PDT San Francisco-- The world's biggest rubber- band ball weighs 2,260 pounds and sits between the potato chips and the lemons in a San Francisco market. Technically, it's not ...

The Rainbow Loom, a plastic device for turning small rubber bands into jewellery, has sold more than three million units worldwide. The sheer scale of the craze can be seen in the stats for Amazon UK.