including Hover-Way, Powerboard, Hype Roam, iMoto, Airwalk, Hovertrax. Hoverboards have two wheels at either end of a platform and are powered by lithium-ion battery packs. Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling more than 500,000. This recall involves iMoto brand self-balancing scooters, commonly referred to as hoverboards. M3A3) has 10 inch wheels and was sold in carbon fiber, mahogany and graffiti. The iMoto from Keenford The Hype Roam from Hype Wireless The Wheeli. The iMoto Smart Balance Board SUV style (model no. KitGuru Says: The only injury I had from a hoverboard was almost breaking my arm when I fell off on a too-fast turn. nicknamed hoverboards, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a. Some of the companies in question include Swagway, which sold its own X1 Keenford with its iMoto Hoverboard LLC's Powerboard, and Razor USA's Hovertrax. The latest hoverboard fire is one of 40 in 19 states that are being investigated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission since hoverboard scooters became the must-have toy of Christmas, 2015. The devices range in price from 200 to 2,000.
This has lead to the CPSC forcing a recall on many companies producing the gadgets and selling them in the UK, which could lead to as many as half a million being recalled. However, poorly manufactured, unbranded units, often made in China, don’t contain these safety measures. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll have to go without a board. The recall covers models from AirWalk, Razor, and Swagway.
The latest count is 99 reports to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) for problematic hardware, 18 injuries and several cases of property damage (as per the Guardian). Engadget is reporting that the Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling 501,000 hoverboards over concerns that their batteries will overheat and catch fire. Although some of those latter wounds could be blamed on the operator, there were many cases where a device burned a user, or caused them harm that was entirely the fault of the defective hardware used in the hoverboard's construction. These devices uses cheaper components to undercut the competition, often manufactured in China with less safety considerations and that's where the problems began.ĭevices produced at a fraction of the cost of the initial self-balancing scooters lead to fires, explosions, dead batteries and in many cases injured users. They were quite prolific too, as it's now emerged that more than 500,000 of them have been recalled due to dangerous components.Īlthough the earliest iterations of the ‘hoverboards' – essentially self-balancing segways without the handlebars – were mostly safe, their popularity led to many copycat devices, defying patent law with abandon. Remember the ‘hoverboard' craze of last year? It being 2015, the idea of riding something – even if it didn't hover – was pretty exciting, but due to a lack of regulation, the crazy ended before it could really start, due to faulty batteries.
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