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The Fidget Cube

The Fidget Cube

The Fidget Cube became the 10th most funded project of all time. That was because of a few factors:

  • The fidget spinner is a product that we can relate to because most of us feel the need to fidget.
  • A well-produced satirical video went viral
  • It was a novelty of an entirely new kind of product.

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The rise of the anxiety economy

Two Kickstarter campaigns set out to raise money to create products that claimed to relieve stress. Both made millions, but more importantly: They helped to create an entire economy out of the treatment of anxiety with simple products.

Despite the lack of scientific data, these p...

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The Fidget Spinner

The Fidget Spinner

By the time the Fidget Cube was released, versions of spinning toys like the Fidget Spinner had already flooded the market. Variations of this toy were marketed as therapeutic aids for children with ADHD, anxiety and autism.

However, it was only after Forbes claimed fidget spinners as the t...

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The ethics of treating anxiety with stuff

The question that needs to be asked is if millions of dollars should be made in the economy of anxiety products.

It is easy to create a market around anxiety. The groundwork has been made. The market is ready to invest in non-medical and alternative forms of treatment.

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The unspoken truth

Although the symptoms are relieved somewhat, none of these products solves the underlying problem.

Fidget devices can help to move our attention away from our thoughts and redirect them to something physical. Weighted blankets may calm us down long enough to fall asleep. But they don't solv...

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We don't understand how to deal with mental health

The Fidget Cube and the Gravity Blanket raised millions of dollars because they diagnosed people with a simple problem that exists for every single person: We fidget at times. We have trouble falling asleep.

Now that we are aware that we might have problems, we realize we should take ca...

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The case of the weighted blanket

The case of the weighted blanket

The product team of Futurism noticed articles about the science of sleep and stress were getting a lot of traffic. They took the old idea of weighted blankets, used to treat children with autism and other disorders, gave it a new look, and marketed it with the promise that it could relieve ...

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Anxiety - the most common mental illness

Anxiety affects 18.1 percent of Americans each year and almost one-third of Americans over their lifetimes.

There might be many probable causes, for instance, social media or toxins. Or, we might be overdiagnosing anxiety. Either way, those who suffer from anxiety want a solution...

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In 1974, Hungarian architect Ernő Rubik wanted to find a way to model three-dimensional movement to his students. At first, he tinkered with blocks of cubes, made from wood and paper, and held by rubber bands, glue, and paper clips. Later he created what he called a Magic Cube.

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