Stores can't keep them in stock. Parents are scrambling to find them. And some schools have banned them.The mania for fidget spinners - the 3-inch twirling gadgets taking over classrooms and cubicles ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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