Can someone explain the present infatuation with these things to me? I keep seeing them everywhere. Hell I'm getting emails from my kid's school telling us to remind our kids not to take toys to school because of them.
I can't grasp why they would be so popular. I see a $1 bearing in about $2 of machined metal. It spins. What am I missing?
Heefty1. It keeps you busy when you don't want to or can't pull your phone out. It's an alternative to finger tapping, knuckle cracking, biting your nails, or other negative habits you may have.
2. The end product may be $2 of metal, but that's after buying a $100 stick and a thousand dollar machine and hours of research, design, engineering, and quality control.
3. Under different lighting effects, the spinning creates optical illusions like when a car tire looks like it's spinning backwards.
I can't grasp why they would be so popular. I see a $1 bearing in about $2 of machined metal. It spins. What am I missing?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jplafke/2016/12/23/fidget-spinners-are-the-must-have-office-toy-for-2017