If you have an elementary age kid, tween or teen, you know all about the fidget spinner craze. For the last couple of months, this small bearing device made of three blades that fit in your fingers ...

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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 ...

Fidgeting didn't start with the spinner craze. If you've ever clicked a ballpoint pen again and again, you've used a fidget item. As part of our work, we've asked people what items they like to fidget ...

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Parents and grandparents still recovering from the 2016 Hatchimals toy fad, be warned -- the fidget spinners are here. Anyone who shares space with a school-aged child these days is likely to ...

Are fidget spinners spinning out of control? Some safety experts think so. Since my story about the potential dangers of fidget spinners in May, more news has emerged about their hazards. Today the ...

This whole fidget spinner thing is officially out of control. Topping the iPhone 7-turned-fidget-spinner, there's now a new world's most expensive spinner, and it costs a whopping 1,000,000 Russian ...