The 'Fidget Cube' Is An Amazingly Useless Toy That's Raised $3.9 Million From Fellow Fidgeters

What do you give a person who cannot stay still? The ones who always need to click, slide, spin, roll or flick something or the other just to keep busy?

The answer is Fidget Cube.

Matthew and Mark McLachlan/ Kickstarter

Matthew and Mark McLachlan, two people who can't keep calm we assume, came up with the Fidget Cube through their company Antsy Labs. The cube, that solves no purpose whatsoever, but acts as the perfect alternative to clicking pens, spinning key rings and popping bubble wrap. Such is the popularity of the Fidget Cube that in the short span of its existence on Kickstarter (a crowd funding website), it has already managed to raise over $3.9 million and is on course to become one of the website's most popular fundraisers ever!

Matthew and Mark McLachlan/ Kickstarter

Matthew and Mark McLachlan/ Kickstarter

Matthew and Mark McLachlan/ Kickstarter

What is the Fidget Cube?

As the name suggests, it'll be a toy in the shape of a cube made especially for those who have a compulsive habit of doing something or the other. The six sides of the cube perform six different actions that are not productive, but definitely time-consuming. It is clickable, spinnable, flickable with varying degrees of loudness. Described as "a cube for people who fidget", it is small so it can easily fit in your pocket and with metal pieces and rubber buttons, it is truly satisfying for those who are just too tense or way too bored.

Matthew and Mark McLachlan/ Kickstarter

Matthew and Mark McLachlan/ Kickstarter

Matthew and Mark McLachlan/ Kickstarter

Will fidgeters eventually give in and buy this instead of chewing on their pens? We don't know, but what we do know is that people on Kickstarter love the idea of it and are willing to fund it. Launching on the 30th of August, it has become the fifth-highest money-making project already with 97,000+ people backing it. There are still 35-days to go before funding for the project shuts for the public and there is no reason to believe why it cannot become Kickstarter's most funded project. A feat that is held by a card game known as Exploding Kittens which has raised $8.8 million to date.

Matthew and Mark McLachlan/ Kickstarter

I'm definitely getting myself one. You can back this project yourself from here.