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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Fidget spinners — the multipronged, whirling gadgets that became so popular this year that some schools banned them as a distraction — have been marketed as playful diversions meant to help people ...

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 ...

That’s because it spins for 12 minutes straight. That’s because the bearing on the fidget spinner “uses small, extremely high-precision balls used for the spinning element in hard disk drives, in ...

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 ...

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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 ...