If you find your fingers are generally a raw, bloody mess due to your boredom-induced nail-biting, or you're driving your cubicle neighbors insane from your desk-drumming and pen-clicking, fidget toys ...

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 ...

All of a sudden, I am hearing about fidget spinners everywhere. Even in the funny papers! When I first saw the gadgets on the counter, they reminded me of the replacement heads for Norelco shavers. I ...

As any parent will know all too well, fads among kids come and go extremely quickly. Every holiday season seems to bring a “must have” toy that is in short supply and every now and again one comes ...

Fidget spinners, those fiddly little toys with a disc at the center, have become an unstoppable craze. Kids can't stop spinning them at home or in class, and even many adults admit to being obsessed.

Catherine Hettinger knew her invention — the fidget spinner — was working as she sat alone before a meeting with the vice president of Hasbro, one of the largest toy manufacturers in the world. “That ...

If you know a middle school kid, or a parent or teacher of one, chances are you’ve seen the simple little colorful device that’s driving them all crazy lately. It’s called a fidget spinner, and even ...

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Fidget spinners -- much like Rubik's Cubes, pet rocks and Tech Decks (aka fingerboards) -- are the newest way to distract yourself with something other than your phone. Since December, the finger toys ...

A: It’s a fidget spinner. What the fuck is a fidget spinner? It’s the current must-have accessory for elementary school students, although this microtrend may have already died out by the time you ...

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The toy craze that has swept the nation — cheaply manufactured fidget spinners of dubious metallic constitution — is probably on the way out, with the high-water mark of fidget obsession appearing to ...