But "there is no research that specifically looks at fidget spinners," O'Connor said. Gaines said: "They're eye-catching so the eye is drawn to them, drawing attention away from the task at hand. For ...

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 ...

Centrifuges are vital to the study of medicine, chemistry, and biology. They’re vital tools to separate the wheat from the chaff figuratively, and DNA from saliva literally. Now, they’re fidget ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. But fidget spinners are a strange take on this trend: a play off the popularity of a physical toy that serves ...

Fidget spinners have taken over classrooms from the US to Australia, to become the most popular toy of the spring. The spinners are truly a viral phenomenon, now covered by major media and also the ...