The hot new item is here!!! Parents are scrambling to find them, schools have banned them, and stores can't keep them in stock! The 3 inch gadget called a fidget spinner is taking over workspaces and classrooms. What's different from other toy crazes is that a major company doesn't make them, they don't have commercials and they aren't timed for a holiday or special event. Not only that but you can find them at 7-Eleven and other gas stations like that as well as toy store chains. The weird thing is fidget spinners have been around for years used by children with attention disorders, or kids with autism to help them with concentration, however they just became popular this spring. Shannon Rowell a special education teacher for sixth-grade told New York Times that after a …show more content…
She states "They seem to be taking over classrooms." A theory that Richard Gottlieb has is that a kid probably brought one onto the playground and it took off from there. Another thing that helped make them so popular was YouTube videos with people spinning them all over their bodies. Suddenly kids started demanding them and ever since they have been flying off the shelves!! Helen Holden signed up for amazon prime, bought two $15 fidget spinner and paid $5.99 for one day shipping all so that her kids could bring the spinner to school on Monday. The owner of Funky Monkey Toys told the New York Times that he will sometimes sell up to 150 spinners in just one day. Amazon top 20 best selling toys consists of 18 different fidget spinners. Another thing that is popular is the fidget cubes however the spinners are the more popular toy. The fidget spinners are made as fast as they can be and are expected for the trend to last till summer. Catherine Hettinger who is an engineer claims that she came up with a toy similar in the early 1990s but the patent expired after she stopped paying the maintenance fee. She also say that she is not making any money from the success and that no one as contacted