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Some people use fidget spinners -- flat, multi-lobed toys with a ball bearing at the center -- to diffuse nervous energy or whirl away stress. Now, researchers have found a surprising use for the toys ...

One might be tempted to judge the ubiquitous fidget spinner, twirled endlessly between the fingers of school kids, as a mere toy. However, it has an unforeseen beneficial purpose, says a team of ...

Recently, however, scientists from National Taiwan University discovered that the devices could be used for blood sample analysis in impoverished regions. Fidget spinners generally consists of three ...

Bearing in mind size constraints of approx. 80mm diameter and what a human hand can achieve on a real fidget spinner (~3000RPM peak), 400G peak. This is obviously a far cry from most lab centrifuges ...