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 ...

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 why fidget spinners are only getting popular now. They’ve been selling like hotcakes on Tindie for a year now, and I’ve been seeing 3D printed versions around the Internet for almost as ...

A friend who lives in a different state recently asked me if my children had "fidget spinners" yet. I had never heard of a fidget spinner, so she showed me a picture of the palm-sized gadgets and told ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Joseph Pisani, The Associated Press Stores can’t keep them in stock. Parents are scrambling to find them. And some schools have banned them. The mania for ...

Like most parents of young children, I've been forcibly made aware of the "fidget spinner" fad. Despite FiveThirtyEight declaring them "over," my kids brought home two new ones from a birthday party ...