Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Are you ...

The newest fidget craze is popping toys. Adults and kids all over the world have been buying up this endlessly reusable version of a longtime favorite fidget activity: popping Bubble Wrap. Made of ...

Fidget spinners vary in price from $7 for the least expensive plastic to more than $40 for anodized aluminum with all metal parts and bearings. Like the trends that preceded it, according to Jewell, ...

It had to come to this. For his entry into this year’s Hackaday Prize, [Sean Hodgins] created a persistence of vision fidget spinner. This isn’t just any PoV fidget spinner — this is the ultimate in ...

Your grandmother means well. But by the time she figures out something’s a fad, it is old news. So maybe you got a fidget spinner in your stocking this year. Beats coal. Before you regift it to your ...

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 ...

A Fidget Spinner is a little toy built around a centered bearing and weight in three arms to help it spin fast and long. Since the fidget spinner is certainly not the latest fad, somebody here might ...