As a dad who has played around with plenty of rolling toys over the years, I can tell you that (provided proper safety precautions are in place) the best kids hoverboards are good for hours of ...

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What's viewed by many Americans as a fun way to get around is also proving increasingly risky and even deadly. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, at least 41 Americans were ...

The 42-volt model of Jetson Rogue Hoverboard was recalled this week. The recall comes nearly a year after the toy was linked to a deadly fire that killed two sisters. The girls' parents filed a ...

One of this year's hottest gifts is the hoverboard, also known as the less enticing but more accurate name of an "electric hands-free scooter." If you're brave enough to try to grab one of these ...

For the past week, I have exclusively been using a hoverboard to get around my office. Instead of walking to the kitchen, bathroom, meetings, and my colleagues' desks, I have been using a blue Swagway ...

The hoverboard, the result of a collaboration with skateboard maestro Tony Hawk, works by using what is known as Magnetic Field Architecture hover engine technology. “The hover engine creates a ...

[Isabelle Simova] is building Hoverbot, a flexible robotics platform using Ikea plastic trays, JavaScript running on a Raspberry Pi and parts scavenged from commonly available hoverboards.

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, a guy in blue jeans and a T-shirt drifted back and forth across a gently sloping half-pipe in an office park southwest of San Jose. Instead of skating, though, he was ...

Major US airlines are banning the two-wheeled motorized boards from both checked and carry-on luggage because of safety concerns about the batteries. Carrie was a managing editor at CNET focused on ...