America’s biggest retailers are stocking up on hoverboards as fires, falls and rising restrictions fail to dent their popularity. Walmart and Toys ‘R’ Us, both of which sell the devices online, are ...

Whether you call them hoverboards, self-balancing boards or explosions waiting to happen, these two-wheeled scooters aren’t going anywhere. Suffice it to say that a lot has changed over the past year.

Any daredevils still interested in buying a hoverboard will find it harder to get one now. On Tuesday, Amazon.com pulled all its hoverboards from its website, leaving only accessories such as decals ...

Hoverboards were the hottest holiday gift in 2015. But all the hype surrounding the boards (which don’t actually hover) has fizzled out in a hurry, replaced with reports of hoverboard fires, sudden ...

Remember hoverboards? Last year was pretty big for the two-wheeled self-balancing scooters, which (sort of) made good on Back To The Future's promise of the future of transportation. Hoverboards were ...

OF THE MANY modes of transportation, hoverboards may be the most fun way of getting from point A to point B. They offer joyous cruising outside in the front driveway, on the sidewalk of a neighborhood ...

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The main reason hoverboards have self-destructed is because of their batteries. All of the major hoverboard brands use rechargeable lithium-ion batteries for power, and those can be dangerous for two ...

The house fire killed two sisters, aged 10 and 15, in Pennsylvania last year A hoverboard toy linked to a house fire that killed two young sisters in Pennsylvania has been recalled, with authorities ...

It's generally healthy to think in shades of grey; things are rarely either all good or all bad. Except, it turns out, hoverboards, which the Consumer Product Safety Commission has officially warned ...

Colleges and universities nationwide want students to stay grounded. The bans and partial bans started in December and have since grown to more than 30 schools. Here's an informal tally of those ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Carolina Panthers coach Ron Rivera recently banned players from using hoverboards inside Bank of America Stadium after seeing YouTube videos in which the machines caught fire. He ...