Fidget spinners are the new craze with kids. Essentially they’re toys that you fiddle with and spin around. They’re supposed to relieve stress, but plenty of kids just have them now for fun and get a ...

Fidget spinners -- much like Rubik's Cubes, pet rocks and Tech Decks (aka fingerboards) -- are the newest way to distract yourself with something other than your phone. Since December, the finger toys ...

Whether you bite your nails or twirl your hair, fiddling is an all too familiar impulse to distract from our inner monologue. The polarizing fidget spinner tapped into that idea, showing that both ...

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If you’re feeling bored or distracted, the solution could be as easy as giving your hands something to do. Enter fidget spinners, which, amazingly, even NASA astronauts have used in space. The best ...

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 ...

If you know a middle school kid, or a parent or teacher of one, chances are you’ve seen the simple little colorful device that’s driving them all crazy lately. It’s called a fidget spinner, and even ...

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First there were the fidget spinners, then the squishies, then the pop toys, then the faux game controllers, bendable this-and-thats and a number of other hand-held items that my kids could manipulate ...

Have you ever wondered why some people naturally fidget when they are engaged in a task? It turns out there’s a scientific explanation. Fidgeting is a common behavior driven by a combination of ...