You’ve seen them on the streets, on your commute and in your office: fidget spinners. The three-pronged pieces of plastic that are flicked for fun were originally designed as a therapeutic tool for ...

You’ve seen them on the streets, on your commute and in your office; fidget spinners. The three-pronged pieces of plastic that are flicked for fun were originally designed as a therapeutic tool for ...

Kids everywhere are using the fidget spinner, but now it's being investigated following safety concerns. These hot toys are being investigated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Nancy Cowles, ...

What if I told you the whole nutty fidget spinner phenomenon is actually very, very old news? As in 4,000-year-old news? In a Reddit post titled "My daughter found the world's oldest fidget spinner in ...

Toys R Us has literally scrambled the jets trying to meet the demand of this year's break-out toy, handheld whirligig known as a "fidget spinner." Unlike other toy explosions like the Tickle Me Elmo ...

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Parents and grandparents still recovering from the 2016 Hatchimals toy fad, be warned -- the fidget spinners are here. Anyone who shares space with a school-aged child these days is likely to ...

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 ...

It’s the surprise hottest toy of the spring, and it isn’t a high-tech gadget. So-called fidget spinners, low-tech, low-price stress-relieving toys, are a huge fad sweeping the country, and stores ...

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If you find your fingers are generally a raw, bloody mess due to your boredom-induced nail-biting, or you're driving your cubicle neighbors insane from your desk-drumming and pen-clicking, fidget toys ...