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 ...

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Consumer Reports has found that some squishy fidget toys can break open and the gel inside can cause skin irritation or ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The newest fidget craze is popping toys. Adults and kids all over the world have been buying up this endlessly reusable version of a longtime favorite fidget ...

This holiday season, consider alternatives to stress ball fidget toys for your stocking stuffers. And if you have them, never ...

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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Fidgeting didn't start with the spinner craze. If ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stores can’t keep them in stock. Parents are scrambling to find them. And some schools have banned them. The mania for fidget spinners — the 3-inch twirling gadgets taking over ...

My 6-year-old son came home Wednesday and begged for a fidget spinner. If you are a parent of a school aged child, you've no doubt heard the same request, or, at a minimum, have been inundated by ...

Last week, German customs agents in Frankfurt Airport seized 35 metric tons of an imported plastic device, destroying the shipment for public safety purposes before it could infiltrate the country's ...