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 ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Parents are being warned to avoid buying fidget spinners, hoverboards, and "data-collecting" toys for their children this year, as they top the annual Trouble in Toyland report.

Melissa Ferry is a big believer in the benefits of allowing students to use fidget toys in the classroom. She points to research indicating that playing with fidget toys — little gadgets, cubes, ...

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 ...

Have you heard about the hottest new toy of the spring? It isn’t a new video game console or some other high-tech gadget. It’s a low-tech, inexpensive device called a fidget spinner. Stores can’t keep ...

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 ...

Fidget spinners, the hottest new twirling gadget for kids, aren’t just driving teachers crazy — they may also be dangerous. Kelly Rose Joniec, a mother in Texas, posted a cautionary tale on Facebook ...

Melissa Ferry is a big believer in the benefits of allowing students to use fidget toys in the classroom. She points to research indicating that playing with fidget toys - little gadgets, cubes, ...

BOSTON (AP) — The wildly popular fidget spinners that seem to be in the hands of the half the children in the U.S. are also potentially dangerous, a consumer watchdog group warned Wednesday. The small ...

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