An iOS and Android app that digitizes fidget spinners, a children’s toy, has been downloaded more than 7 million times. Meanwhile, other schools have hopped onto the trend bandwagon and are using ...

Yes, the only thing more inane than an actual fidget spinner is an app version of a fidget spinner. Still, ridiculous as they are, the apps are -- inexplicably -- nearly as popular as the toys ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Are you ...

Fidget spinners are everywhere these days. Classrooms. Subways. Broadway audiences. (Shout-out to the teenager in the audience of a performance of Dear Evan Hansen on April 15. I saw you, dude.) And … ...

One of the many odd things about the year 2017 has been the rise of the fidget spinner. Despite being around since the 1990s, these low-priced stress-relief aids have inexplicably become the new ...

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 ...

I don’t know about you, but I have trouble sitting still. My personal combination of over-caffeinated autism and ADHD means I need to keep my hands busy during the workday to avoid chewing my fingers ...

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