The twirling, hand-held toys at times exasperated teachers and distracted students. But by the time school started this fall, interest had dissipated. "It seems to already be a bit of a passing fad," ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parents, we have good news and bad news for you today. The bad news is that the fidget spinner craze isn’t over — far from it. But ...

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Electric fidget spinners have joined hoverboards and other unregulated battery toys that are at risk of catching on fire while charging. In at least two states, the popular toys have exploded into ...

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 ...

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It was Rainbow Loom a couple of years ago; Rubik's Cubes last year; slime and bottle flipping earlier this year. Now, it's the fidget spinner. The toys are all the rage at schools across the Triangle ...

We all know that in this day and age, we really can’t have nice things. Hoverboards, Galaxy Note 7s, and BMWs are all going up in flames, and you can now add fidget spinners — not things that should ...

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 ...

In a matter of weeks, fidget spinners went from something almost nobody had ever heard of to the must-have toy of the season. The anxiety-reducing handheld spinners are so ubiquitous that dozens of ...

NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik has been busy going on spacewalks and taking space selfies, but he found some time to indulge in a previously Earth-bound fad. He tweeted a video Friday of some fidget ...