hoverboards
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Is This Fast Electric Scooter Impossibly Awesome Or Totally Lame?
What do you do when you leave your successful battery case startup? If you’re Daniel Huang, the guy that co-founded Mophie, you make ugly electric scooters.
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Hoverboard Store Catches Fire
Other than being the “transportation of the future”, hoverboards’ most notable feature is their propensity for bursting into flames spontaneously. That’s great if you’re a pyro, and less great if you like avoiding third-degree burns. Now, a brick-and-mortar purveyor of these flame-prone scooties has succumbed to what most would assume was inevitable — it caught…
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There Is Now One Legal ‘Hoverboard’ In Australia
‘Hoverboards’ were banned in Australia last month after countless incidents of fires, risk of electric shock and the product category making up two thirds of all product recalls on the ACCC website. Strict new standards were put into place, so strict that to date only one ‘hoverboard’ has met all of the safety certifications, becoming…
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What A Back To The Future Hoverboard Factory Would Probably Look Like
Video: In my head, we screwed it all up. Our reality is an alternate timeline because our hoverboards don’t actually hover. There are people out there living in the real timeline where Back to the Future-style hoverboards actually do exist and do hover and are probably made in a factory that pumps ’em out like…