Therefore, the fidget spinner's price premium ($15 on Amazon) over other common fidget objects such as pens, pencils, balls and coins probably isn't due to massive research and development costs.

In the first 12 days of June, there were 9.9 fidget spinner videos in the top trending list on average, up from 7.5 videos on an average day in May and 1.4 videos on an average day in April.

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 ...

Fidget spinners are the hot new toy. Kids love them. Teachers and schools, not so much. If you've never heard of a fidget spinner, it's a toy with a ball bearing in the middle and prongs (usually ...

A consumer watchdog group has just called fidget spinners one of the 10 most dangerous toys available this summer. One reason: Fly-by-night companies have evaded the required toy safety warnings ...

Helen Holden heard about fidget spinners last month when her 7-year-old twins demanded she stop at a 7-Eleven to buy them. “I thought it was a drink,” says the bank vice president and blogger ...

Fidget spinners emerged this spring, seemingly from out of nowhere, as a must-have gadget. Before December 2016, Google searches for the words "fidget spinner" were basically nonexistent.

The fidget spinner is small, cheap and relatively quiet. Boys and girls seem to be interested in it (boys more so), and when kids are playing it, they’re not looking at their phone or iPad.

What is a fidget spinner and how to make one. Why not jump on the 2017 bandwagon while getting creative. Matty Edwards. Thursday 21 June 2018 15:33 BST. Comments. open image in gallery.