fidget spinners
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Scientists Turned A Regular Fidget Spinner Into A Centrifuge That Separates Blood
Kids are already over fidget spinners after adults rapidly made them uncool, but a team of scientists in Taiwan has found a nifty way to repurpose these small toys. They turned them into inexpensive centrifuges that could allow health workers in impoverished areas to carry out certain blood tests with ease.
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The Most Googled ‘How-Tos’ Of 2017 Prove Our Insatiable Lust For Slime And Bitcoin
Every December, Google releases “The Year in Search”, which sheds light on what the world was most interested in during the last spin around the Sun. This year, the company added the most popular “how-to” searches to its global list – and in 2017 they are strange and kind of bleak.
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Here Is A Pretty Excellent Video Of A Fidget Spinner Spinning In Space
Look: If we’re being honest, fidget spinners are pretty played out at this point. Or at least they are … on Earth. It turns out that fidget spinners remain extremely cool if you have access to a massive spacecraft and a low-gravity environment.
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Russian Government Investigating Fidget Spinners, A ‘Political Technology’ That ‘Controls Children’
In Russia, there’s currently an effort to paint fidget spinners as a devious plot by the opposition to “zombify” kids using “political technologies”.