If you have an elementary age kid, tween or teen, you know all about the fidget spinner craze. For the last couple of months, this small bearing device made of three blades that fit in your fingers ...

Insight provides an in-depth look at health care issues in and affecting California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. That fidget spinner your kid can’t put down? It turns out it may be putting ...

As if worrying about funding and quality teachers isn’t enough, now schools on both sides of the Atlantic are dealing with a mighty serious problem of another sort: fidget spinners and their cousins, ...

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 ...

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A children’s product safety advocacy group has listed the popular fidget spinner as one of the 10 worst toys for the 2017 holiday season. WATCH, which stands for World Against Toys Causing Harm, cited ...

Russia' consumer protection agency, Rospotrebnadzor, says it is looking into fidget spinners' possible negative effects on children's health amid allegations on Russian television programs that the ...

Fidgeting didn’t start with the spinner craze. If you’ve ever clicked a ballpoint pen again and again, you’ve used a fidget item. As part of our work, we’ve asked people what items they like to fidget ...

Are fidget spinners helping antsy students to sit still and concentrate on their lessons, or are they just driving kids (and teachers) to distraction? Education Week‘s Kristine Kim explores the ...