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 ...

How awesome is a fidget spinner in space, where your body can do all the spinning you want? Pretty awesome, it turns out. Astronauts on the International Space Station showed off their tricks in ...

Jenn Jarmula, an elementary- and middle-school teacher in Chicago, recently hung a sign outside her classroom. This Is A Fidget Spinner Free Zone, it read. Fidget spinners–which dominate Amazon’s ...

There’s no accounting for what makes something go viral. Talking dogs, a natural. The flip-cup craze, random but understandable. “That hot new ADHD toy” — slightly out of left field. But that is where ...