Go ahead and make an Idiocracy reference if you want, but this is what’s happening in the current year: the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted a meme on Twitter warning tweens that the ...

We have to assume the rise of the fidget spinner set off a series of increasingly strident alarm bells in the offices of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the independent government agency ...

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 ...

A fidget spinner. A coconut. An electric razor. The aliens from "Chicken Little." What do these things all have in common? They've all been jokingly presented on Twitter as look-alikes for the new ...

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 ...

Target is hawking fidget spinners that contain dangerous amounts of lead, according to a consumer advocacy group. The three-pronged toys designed to relieve stress and improve focus quickly became one ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a journalist covering consumer protection and fraud. Electric fidget spinners have joined hoverboards and other unregulated ...

Terrible news. Mere weeks after obtaining my beloved fidget spinner, I have been told that not only are they "over," but they have been over for months. The first murmurs of the spinner's demise came ...

High-powered New Yorkers have long relied on five-star resorts, golfing and serious retail therapy to chill out. Now they have another way to de-stress: the executive fidget spinner. The humble fidget ...

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 ...

When the [Director of Legal Evil] at Louisville’s LVL1 Hackerspace decided to demonstrate the uselessness of a 3D printer by printing a fidget spinner, another member at the space’s Tuesday meeting ...