One drop of liquid, a cutting-edge laser 3-D-printer and a few hours are all it takes to make a fidget spinner smaller than the width of a human hair. The tiny whirligig was created by researchers at ...

It turns out there’s a hidden meaning to fidget spinners — and it’s sure to surprise you. Fidget spinners are a hugely popular toy trend and they’re marketed as a stress reliever — as well as being ...

Fidgets spinners are supposed to help students sit still and focus. But many teachers are saying it’s having the exact opposite effect. Meant to help children with attention deficit hyperactivity ...

Some people use fidget spinners—flat, multi-lobed toys with a ball bearing at the center—to diffuse nervous energy or whirl away stress. Now, researchers have found a surprising use for the toys: ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — It is permissible to play with fidget spinners on Shabbat, rabbis at an institute that looks at science and Jewish law have determined. Rabbis at the Scientific and Technologic ...

Everyone fidgets...except maybe for those guards in front of Buckingham Palace. Whether it's touching your hair, biting your nails, playing with your clothing or spinning pens in your hands, you ...

Perhaps your children have begged you for a fidget spinner. Elementary and middle schoolers are mad for them, and teachers are having to decide whether to allow or ban them from classrooms. You heard ...

A wildly popular toy was inspired during the First Intifada when an inventor dreamed of a way of distracting young demonstrators. The inventor of the ubiquitous stress-reducing toy says she came up ...

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 ...