Just the thought of playing with one of these makes me feel anxious - they're supposed to reduce anxiety?
Fidget Spinners: Why Being Interesting Can Do More for You Than Being Useful
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#32My barber gave me one to play with as I sat down for my haircut the other day. I was eager to try it out, but once I did, I didn't really see the appeal, apart from a cute name. This thing is going to go the way of the hula hoop.
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#33I HIGHLY recommend that anybody who has family or friends who are interested in these things (kids i mean) just take a few minutes and build one. They're super cheap, and super easy. Go to your friendly local makerspace if you don't have the tools to do it yourself.
Do you have instructions for this that you've used with success?
I used the instructions and 3D model from here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1802260
and built a couple. My first 3D printer project experience. It was fun for me and the kids. Note that schools have started to ask kids not bring them to school as they don't really help with fidgeting and are mostly used as toys.
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#34This is a great article about fidget spinners:
https://geeksdistrict.com/inside-the-fidget-spinner-gold-rus...
"Over the last month or so, the spinning toys have gone from an elementary-school fad to a nationwide obsession. Unlike many other toy crazes, fidget spinners offer a wild-wild west for global capitalists looking to cash in on the craze. For one, there are no patents or trademarks to worry about infringing, so any factory can spew them out by the thousands. They're cheap to make and buy, so there's little risk in investing in, say, 500 or 1,000 of them. And unlike hoverboards, the craze that Chinese factories were cranking out last year, they aren't going to explode or catch fire.
"I'm selling a couple thousand a week just walking around and asking stores if they them""
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#35I'm halfway through the article and still have no idea what a fidget spinner is.
It's another silly fad toy object that you spin in your hand. A very successfully marketed one, that is.
ive never seen an ad, only self reported use/pictures. The success is in hitting a nice intersection of cheap/satisfying gadget.
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#36I HIGHLY recommend that anybody who has family or friends who are interested in these things (kids i mean) just take a few minutes and build one. They're super cheap, and super easy. Go to your friendly local makerspace if you don't have the tools to do it yourself.
Do you have instructions for this that you've used with success?
I just searched for a vector if the shape, then cut it on a laser cutter.
If you don't have one, you could do the same and instead print it off and use it as a stencil to cut some wood, cardboard, etc.
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#37I'm halfway through the article and still have no idea what a fidget spinner is.
It's another silly fad toy object that you spin in your hand. A very successfully marketed one, that is.
Marketed by who though? Like the article says, there is no main company or companies behind this. Just lots of random products cheap from China being resold.
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#38I HIGHLY recommend that anybody who has family or friends who are interested in these things (kids i mean) just take a few minutes and build one. They're super cheap, and super easy. Go to your friendly local makerspace if you don't have the tools to do it yourself.
Do you have instructions for this that you've used with success?
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
My mother in law suggested that we get one to see if our daughter will do that instead of sucking her thumb when tired Other night she had thumb in her mouth, fidget spinner in the other hand, so I'm chalking that up as a fail They're pretty cheap ($5 or so), so it's a pretty low cost experiment if your wife is curious
Give her 2 to play with. Will turn pro.
she's gonna figure out how to use her toes
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's another silly fad toy object that you spin in your hand. A very successfully marketed one, that is.
Marketed by who though? Like the article says, there is no main company or companies behind this. Just lots of random products cheap from China being resold.
There are ads all over Facebook and Instagram