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 ...

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What are fidget spinners? Is hot new toy dangerous, or helpful to kids? Fidget spinners have exploded in popularity, leaving many parents to ask: What is a fidget spinner? And are they dangerous for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Parents say their children are obsessed with "popit" fidget toys — brightly-colored silicone in various shapes like rainbows, unicorns, food, or dinosaurs with pokeable "bubbles" — that are widely ...

Fidget spinners: A fun and therapeutic tool? Or, a distracting toy? Although the devices are billed as a therapeutic device, Holly Davenport, an occupational therapist at Kootenai Health in Coeur ...

What happens when you combine an Arduino-based microcontroller with a palm-sized aluminum box and clicky buttons? A fidget toy that invites coder creativity.

Katherine Isbister has received gift funding in the past from Committee for Children, a non-profit, to support her research on smart fidgets, and currently has support from the National Institutes of ...

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