MCCOSKERY: A small pocket knife. It was nothing too threatening. MALONE: All right, all right. To get through those meetings, McCoskery built what he believes is the first fidget spinner as we ...

Sometimes I fiddle with zippers, pens, or sometimes a pocket knife. At my very worst ... At its core, a spinner is simple. It is, as you can likely guess, a little widget that spins.

In the knife business, there’s a popular term that is not at all technical. That term is “fidget friendly,” and it essentially describes a pocket knife that for whatever reason is just super fun to ...

In this context, a top that spins in the hand is like a pocket orrery—a mechanical model of the heavens. The fidget spinner quietly attests that the solitary, individual body who spins it is ...

One of the many odd things about the year 2017 has been the rise of the fidget spinner. Despite being around since the 1990s, these low-priced stress-relief aids have inexplicably become the new ...

Credit: Civivi While it’s hardly the first pocket knife to deploy three ways, the multitude of methods, all hinging on a caged ceramic ball bearing, turn the Hyperpulse into quite the fidget ...

“I’d click a pen, fidget with something in my pocket,” he says ... It’s similar to ordering a custom knife.” It was time to get serious about the business. McCoskery brought in de ...

but it also feels really weird in your pocket. It’s like carrying a single die. A weird, misshapen die. Unlike a fidget spinner, which you can find in a variety of slim, short, two-armed ...