FAIR OAKS (CBS13) —The fidget spinner just might be the year's hottest toy. Kids are obsessed with these things, and it seems you can buy them almost anywhere. Companies are souping them up with LED ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stores can’t keep them in stock. Parents are scrambling to find them. And some schools have banned them. The mania for fidget spinners — the 3-inch twirling gadgets taking over ...

Call it spin control — the effort in Western Pennsylvania schools and across the country to address the craze surrounding three-pronged gadgets known as fidget spinners. The palm-sized twirling toys, ...

As you all know, fidget spinners are the extremely popular new toy built to ease anxiety in children and increase their focus. You also know that approximately one month ago we made the decision, ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Fidget spinners, the small plastic toys the provide a quick, soothing rotation, are the newest sensation that is flying off shelves and into schools across the country. The gadgets ...

An airport in Germany has taken a strong anti-fidget spinner stance by stopping 35 metric tons of the toys from entering the country in May. Customs officials at an airport in Frankfurt said children ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a journalist covering consumer protection and fraud. Electric fidget spinners have joined hoverboards and other unregulated ...

We just closed out the Internet of Useful Things round of the Hackaday Prize, which means we’re neck deep in judging projects to move onto the final round this fall. Last week, everyone on Hackaday.io ...

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