- Are fidget toys really worth it? - Hmm, let's talk about that. (upbeat music) Good mythical morning. - Everybody who's
anybody has a fidget toy. That's what I've heard. These things are all the rage, and Forbes, that's not just my friend
Forbes, that's a publication. - But you do have friend named Forbes. - Yeah, I hang out with him quite a bit. - I want him to be my friend,
but he doesn't talk to me. - Yeah, well, he's my butler. He says that fidget toys are the must-have office item for 2017. So if you have an office,
you must have fidget toys. - All the rage, and I
don't know, 100% sure, but I think a lot of it has to
do with this guy right here. This is the Fidget Cube, which is a little device designed for no other
reason than to channel your fidgeting needs into it. All these different ball
bearing, push button, roller things, switches,
spins, and clickers, and some silent non-clickers. - Wow, there's quite a lot. - Two guys with a
company called Antsy Labs created a Kickstarter for this thing, and their goal was $15,000. - Modest goal. - And then as of last October,
they raised $6,400,000 for this thing. - That's quite a few $15,000's. - A thing that does nothing
except all you to fidget. Now, I got one in my hands, and for $6,400,000, I'm
only half a believer, but a lot of people got behind this thing. It's the ninth most-funded
project ever on Kickstarter. It's the second-highest
backed project in terms the number of people who backed the thing. - Right. - At least as of last October. So this thing set off
a trend across Amazon and across the internet
for people to create and sell, and then for us to
purchase, all types of fidgets. - Yeah, so now there are
all kinds of these things. This one that I've got
is just very simple. It's just a bunch of little
key rings put together, much simpler than what
you're dealing with. But you can kinda just rotate
it in your hand like this. Now, obviously it being
such a funded thing and raising over $6,000,000,
there's demand for this. People think that they need it. It turns out that there
might be some science behind this whole fidgeting thing and why people are demanding it. Now, the idea of fidgeting, obviously this has been
around forever, right? The scientific principle
behind this is that if something we're engaged
in is not interesting enough to sustain our focus, you know, I should fidget while I do this. - You should. - I really should complete the circle. If something we're engaged
in is not interesting enough to sustain our focus, the
additional sensory motor input that is mildly stimulating
allows our brains to become fully engaged and
allows us to sustain focus on the primary activity in
which we are participating. So in other words- - I heard everything you said
'cause I was hitting a switch. - What, whoa! (laughing) - You just dropped, uh, you're
gonna have to drink it now. You're definitely gonna have to drink it. Get it, get it, get it. (laughing) Oh, now it's moist. - Anyway, because I have
this, I was able to focus on drinking that drink. I drank all of it all at once
to get to the fidget toy. (laughing) It's just water. I'm acting like I had a tough
time with it, it's just water. - Okay. - And this might, this might
some scientists presume, that this might date
back to prehistoric times when our ability to focus
100% on a single task was not entirely desirable,
because you might be focusing on something 100% and
then a ravenous beast will come out of a bush
and bite you on the butt. That's just the kinda thing that happens, and you need to be able to be focusing on multiple things at a time. - To be able to give some of
your attention somewhere else. - Right, now that we-- - So it helps you focus,
but at the same time, it might help you be alert otherwise. - Right, and now in modern times, when we don't have to
worry about beasts coming out of bushes, but we're
just doing office things and being in school and that kinda thing, fidgeting has become a
negative thing, right? There's a negative
connotation with fidgeting. So we associate it with people who have attention deficit
disorders, but the fact is, all kinds of people fidget, but it doesn't matter that
we've done it forever. People still see it as unprofessional. If you do it in a professional
environment as an adult, it's seen as unprofessional. If you do it as a child,
you're seen as immature and your teachers tell you to stop. - Yeah, or that you have anxiety, like that guy must be anxious 'cause he can't keep his legs still. I mean, for me, the thing
that I find myself doing is taking my wedding ring, oh,
I can't get it off right now. That's weird. - Oh, you've gained weight. I was gonna say something, but... - I really can't. I usually, it comes off very easily. There you go. I take it off and then I'll
fidget with it in my fingers until I drop it awkwardly
on the floor in the middle of a meeting and it makes that sound, and everybody's looking at me tossing my wedding ring on the floor. - He doesn't wanna be married. - It's gonna go down into
a crevice at some point, and I'm not gonna be able to find it. - Depends on which crevice. - But I feel a little stigma
associated with doing this. - Right, and for me, I was a biter. I would bite pencils and
pens and that kinda thing. I just always thought 'cause
I was hungry all the time and I like to put things
in my mouth and chew. - That guy's malnutritionized. - But it turns out that fidgeting, while there's a negative
connotation to this culturally, it's good for you. Now, research shows that a correlation between working with your hands, there's increased memory and creativity. - Okay. - But even more specifically than that, a 2005 study concluded
that kids who are allowed to fidget, little Timmy,
fidgeting in class, they learn more quickly
than those who are not. So if you're a teacher and
you're telling little Timmy to stop moving his leg
or bite on his pencil, you're really ruining his future. - Now, you can't be
distracting everybody else, but if you can do the silent parts, like I'm doing the silent part right now, then that's good for everybody. - So it totally makes
sense why people felt that there was a need for this, because it's something that
applies to almost every person. It can be helpful to every person because it's not a bad thing. It's actually good for you. - So what you're saying is that the $22 that you can pre-order this
thing for may be justified, or you can get it on Amazon now. This is a generic ripoff
for probably under $5. But you're saying that that's justified. - Well, that is the question. I think that fidgeting is justified, but as I've seen you
over there playing around with that Fidget Cube, I've
been eyeing something over here that I think is a great substitute. Link, that's a TV remote. - It is, is it not? - How many buttons do you have, Neil? - It's got a simulated screen on it. - That's right. - I've got about 17. - Yeah, look at that. I've got 17 just in one little spot. I've got ups and downs,
I've got Exit and Menu, and they all feel different. I got red, green, yellow, blue. - So you're gonna be
that dude in a meeting with a remote to nothing. - And they're like, "What? "Is he gonna cut something on? "No." - The thing that I do is I
pop off the back of that, and all of my remotes
at home have that gone because my kids fidget with them. But I'll present another one. What about this noodle thing? $2.50, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo! Look at me! I'm slinging a noodle in a meeting. No one's distracted by that. The thing I like to do is
I like to tie it in a knot on top of a knot. - Mm. - And sometimes on top of a knot. And then I'll take this thing and I'll just squeeze it and look at it. - Okay. - And then I'll untie it. - And that's $2.50, you say? - $2.50. - I got a whole bowl of noodles for $2.50. (laughing) Look at this. - [Link] You're gonna fidget with noodles? - I can double fist it. - In like a park, or something. - Look at this, I got two. - And I tie it in a knot. Tie it in a knot. - I can tie it in a knot all day. - Tie it in a knot, tie it in a bow. - Can you eat yours? - [Link] Uh, maybe. Is that a challenge? No, I'm not gonna eat this. - So you're telling, I
mean, I think I've got, and listen, when you run
out of one, you got another. They just keep on coming. - Oh, these are kinda sticky too. - Yeah, don't you like that? - I like the stickiness,
and they're silent. - And look. Well, mkay, well, I was
trying to stick it to you. But yeah. - Um, I got another one here. - More affordable. - This is a ball in a tube thing, which you can get 10
of these for under $10. It's like a Twizzler choking on a marble. I'm like, "Wait, Twizzler! "Just wait a little bit, "I can squeeze this out
and you'll be fine." - But you can't, 'cause
it's stuck in there. - No, I cannot. - I see a couple of problems
with that that I can solve. - It's a dying Twizzler. - M&M's. Alright, I essentially have created exactly the same thing that you have. - Thank you. - You're having fun
over there running your little marble around in your Twizzler? Guess what I've got? - A M&M in a M&M bag. - With an opening. - How long are you gonna
not eat the last M&M, I think, is the question. Once you, oh, boy, you're really having a
good morning, brother. (laughing) - Man, I was trying to do
something cool and it hurt. - You chipped your tooth. - It hit the roof of my mouth. - So now it's gone. I mean, now you don't have one. - No, look, look, I got another one. And look, I can get one to you. Heads up. - Oh goodness. - Heads up, heads up, Neal. - This is like going to
a Japanese steakhouse. (laughing) It's like a shrimp. If that woulda hit me in
the back of the throat, I would have been like this dead Twizzler. - You would have been sustained. - And finally, I've got
this ball bearing spinner. - Oh, these are pretty cool. - Which, at first, I was like, okay, oh. (laughing) - We shouldn't drive today. (laughing) - At first I was just like-- - I've never seen us like
trying to spin something. - Well, you're one to talk! You chipped a tooth and dropped your-- - Alright, spin it. - I was like, well,
this is not too special. I'm just spinning this thing, which I can kinda feel the
ball bearings, which is nice. But then you discover, if you do this, you start to feel this
gyroscoping centrifugal force physics things happening,
that I cannot convey to you how pleasing this is. It just feels like I'm defying the physics of a thumb and a forefinger. - It's pretty cool, but... It's pretty small. Talk about a gyroscope. (laughing) I think I'm having more fun. Now, you may be a little distracting in a meeting or a class. - Yeah, that's a little bit distracting. - It's distracting? - But at least you're the
cool guy with a unicycle. I mean, that's definitely gonna make up for the fact that you're doing that. - So I think the jury is still out, not on fidgeting and
whether it's good for you, but whether you should be
investing in these toys because you could just get a unicycle. - Thanks for liking,
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