Fidget spinners have saturated middle schools and office cubicles at an astonishing rate since catching hold of Americans' addled attention spans earlier this year. In a development that now seems ...

It had to come to this. For his entry into this year’s Hackaday Prize, [Sean Hodgins] created a persistence of vision fidget spinner. This isn’t just any PoV fidget spinner — this is the ultimate in ...

If you’re feeling anxious or overwhelmed, using a fidget tool such as a fidget spinner or even just a stress ball, can help. While these tools have long been popular for people with ADHD, experts say ...

Terrible news. Mere weeks after obtaining my beloved fidget spinner, I have been told that not only are they "over," but they have been over for months. The first murmurs of the spinner's demise came ...

After shuffling through a couple different concepts, he settled on an airplane propellor. He'd kept a World War II airplane model in his room as a child that would later inspire his first fidget ...

What are fidget spinners? Fidget spinners started gaining popularity in March this year, and can be bought anywhere from pasar malams to department stores. Before fidget spinners, a device known as a ...

An 11-year-old Arizona boy was admitted to two different hospitals over the course of 16 hours after getting a three-pointed fidget spinner shaped like a ninja star stuck on his finger, according to a ...

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Some believe this photo proves that our predecessors were pulling off finger tricks long before 2017’s most notorious gadget appeared on the scene. A museum exhibition appears to show an antique ...

Fidget spinners — the multipronged, whirling gadgets that became so popular this year that some schools banned them as a distraction — have been marketed as playful diversions meant to help people ...

A Fidget Spinner is a little toy built around a centered bearing and weight in three arms to help it spin fast and long. Since the fidget spinner is certainly not the latest fad, somebody here might ...