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 ...

If you are not a parent of a middle-school-aged child, do not commute to work on public transportation, avoid the life-style section of the newspaper, and refrain from watching all television news, it ...

The fidget spinner has a bafflingly simple design. Think of a tiny propeller that spins on your fingertip. There is a ball bearing in the middle surrounded by a metal -- or plastic or ceramic -- frame ...

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 ...

When I asked a colleague if he knew about fidget spinners, he responded: “I’d never heard of them until last week, when my daughter told me she had to have one.” Many parents must be having that ...

NEW HAVEN >> Fidget spinners, a handheld modification of a spinning top, are seemingly the must-have toy of 2017 and the simple pieces of plastic spanning approximately two inches and loaded with ball ...

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 ...

Last week, German customs agents in Frankfurt Airport seized 35 metric tons of an imported plastic device, destroying the shipment for public safety purposes before it could infiltrate the country's ...

What is a fidget spinner? A fidget spinner (sometimes called the finger spinner) is a simple handheld device one can, well, fidget with. There is a disc with ball bearing and two or three paddles that ...

NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik has been busy going on spacewalks and taking space selfies, but he found some time to indulge in a previously Earth-bound fad. He tweeted a video Friday of some fidget ...

The fidget spinner is a toy that sits like a propeller on a person’s finger, with blades that spin around a bearing. Depending on your personal taste, watching the spinning motion is either ...