Fidget Spinner

ICBM

My youngest has one. It's a pretty cool bit of engineering really - and makes less noise than the various electronic game gadgets, so it's all good.

Garthy

RandallFlagg said:

Bought them for my kids, £15 a pop, they are tossed aside in their bedrooms now. Fun for about 20 seconds then seem utterly pointless.

Donate them to a school?

capo4th

Banned at my sons school in the last few days

snakemanStoo

Youngest sprog is autistic, and she has tried them.  She found them to be more distracting then helpful.

RandallFlagg

Garthy said:

RandallFlagg said:

Bought them for my kids, £15 a pop, they are tossed aside in their bedrooms now. Fun for about 20 seconds then seem utterly pointless.

Donate them to a school?

No thanks. My kids school is full of liberal headed tree hugging veggie CND weirdo teachers. If it was manned by hard edged disciplinarian, cane wielding teachers then I might, and they could use them to throw at the unruly kids.

Benson

You can always weaponise them, what could possibly go wrong ...

https://youtu.be/tfGCI7yuMPc

bingefeller

Teyeplayer

snakemanStoo said:

Youngest sprog is autistic, and she has tried them.  She found them to be more distracting then helpful.

This.

Having watched these explode like pogs, mini-skateboards and light-up-yo-yo's, (and ultimately serve very few students who they were designed for) I am yet to see these serve any benefit beyond an excuse to fidget...funny that.