Jenn Jarmula, an elementary- and middle-school teacher in Chicago, recently hung a sign outside her classroom. This Is A Fidget Spinner Free Zone, it read. Fidget spinners–which dominate Amazon’s ...

You’ll find them in nearly any department store or gas station: Fidget spinners, fidget cubes, and other devices designed to help you focus. There’s no scientific evidence about whether they work, but ...

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There’s no accounting for what makes something go viral. Talking dogs, a natural. The flip-cup craze, random but understandable. “That hot new ADHD toy” — slightly out of left field. But that is where ...

In a matter of weeks, fidget spinners went from something almost nobody had ever heard of to the must-have toy of the season. The anxiety-reducing handheld spinners are so ubiquitous that dozens of ...