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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Don't eat your fidget spinner. I guess that's what the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is trying to tell us now. We may have a new candidate for most bizarre government decree since the ...

If you’re ready to jump on the fidget spinner bandwagon — the toy craze that seems to be obsessing the nation — but still don’t want to shell out a hard-earned $5 or more for the funky gadget, then ...

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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 ...

Since the fidget spinner is certainly not the latest fad, somebody here might wonder what else it could be used for. Well, let me spill the beans! A while back, I chanced upon a cheap fidget spinner ...