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 ...

Launched in October, just in time for the holiday shopping season, was a line of multicolored, brightly packaged toys that promised to be "oddly satisfying," and give you tingles. Two out of six of ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. But fidget spinners are a strange take on this trend: a play off the popularity of a physical toy that serves ...

One of the many odd things about the year 2017 has been the rise of the fidget spinner. Despite being around since the 1990s, these low-priced stress-relief aids have inexplicably become the new ...

Forget real-life fidget spinners: An app that simulates a fidget spinner is now the top free app in the App Store. Called "Finger Spinner," the app is a gamified version of the super-popular toy. The ...