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With the CPSC, the US Govt. Agency with the full form of Consumer Products Safety Commission, issuing a notice that all hoverboards are deemed unsafe unless they have proper safety and quality certifications, with the thousands and thousands of hoverboards being seized by US Customs and with major online retailers like Amazon and Toys ‘R’ Us removing hoverboards from their websites, the sale of hoverboards have been hit.

The CPSC Declares hoverboards unsafe unless UL 2272 certified

The Hoverboard Industry Alliance

To counter this looming issue with the chaotic Chinese manufacturing industry, over a 100 hoverboard manufacturers have come together to form a Trade Association called the Hoverboard Industry Alliance. This industry alliance aims to bring the Chinese hoverboard manufacturing industry up to sped with the quality and safety requirements in the US, such as the UL 2272 amongst other things.

These over 100 Chinese hoverboard manufacturers formed this trade association in January 2016 and have just concluded their second trade conference on 3^rd of March 2016. The Hoverboard Industry Alliance will help Chinese manufacturers apply for the UL 2272, understand and comply with US quality and safety certifications, give assistance and guidance to manufacturers who need help and work towards strengthening and organizing the Chinese hoverboard manufacturing industry.

The latest smart Barbie house features a rideable hoverboard for Barbie amongst a whole host of hi-tech features like voice commands, moving elevators, smart room lights and more. Responding to the real-life craze for hoverboards, it was only a matter of the time before the Barbie Hoverboard appeared.

It’s called the Hello Barbie Dreamhouse, and is the ultimate Barbie play house. Priced at a steep $299, it is what every little girl who loves Barbie dreams of. It has three modes, and responds to people talking to the house, when they start by saying “Hello Dream House”. The party mode of the Barbie Dreamhouse gets lights flashing, the chandelier spinning, music blasting away and the stairs converting themselves into a slide.

If you are looking for a popular Barbie Dreamhouse that ​you can buy right now, click here!

The Barbie Hoverboard is officially called the Star Light Adventure RC Hoverboard, and is a small drone that Barbie can actually ride. It is a separate toy that costs $60. Add another $240 and you can get a real life hoverboard for yourself.

This Hello Barbie Dreamhouse and the Barbie Hoverboard were demonstrated by Mattel in a recent New York Toy Fair. Both will become available for sale by this fall.

By talking to the Dreamhouse, kids can turn on lights, the shower and even get the oven started. It also has a mobile app mode where kids can set custom lighting and light colour schemes and a lot more.

Here is a video of the all new Barbie hoverboard:

Here is a video of the entire Hello Barbie Dreamhouse:

In case you aren’t willing to shell out the money to get either of these two things, you can always make a doll hoverboard.

Here is a video of how to make your own doll hoverboard:

With such amazing toys like the flying Barbie Hoverboard coming up for kids, we can truly say that it’s a great time to be a kid!

Here are some of the best Barbie Dream House Videos to watch now!

Enjoy the high and lows of Barbie and her three sisters in her Dream House in Malibu. You will of course find Ken there most of the time. Go right ahead and enjoy these Barbie Dream House Videos.

Hoverboard Singapore News Update - Ho Ching, the wife of Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, owns several hoverboards. It happened when she was trying to step off on one of her hoverboards. In her own words she had “a difference of opinion with one of my hoverboards”. She was trying to get off the hoverboard, but it went on a spin, throwing her to the ground.

She shared a photo of herself with a Star Wars Storm Trooper at the Changi airport, showing a flexi-cast on her left elbow. She shared the photo on Facebook on February 8th, the first day of Chinese Lunar New Year.

She wrote in her Facebook post, "First week on half open cast to give space for swelling of arm; Second week full cast to stabilize elbow joint; Now on flex frame 'cast' to enable the elbow to do controlled flexing to minimize risk of frozen elbow as it heals."

Ho Ching is the Chief Executive Officer of Temasek Holdings, which she had joined as Executive Director in May 2002. Forbes has listed her as the 59th most powerful woman in the world in 2015. She met her husband, Lee Hsien Loong, current Prime Minister of Singapore, on 17 December 1985.

Her husband, Lee, is the eldest son of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. He is a certified technology geek, who can code, is a die-hard Star Wars fan, uses a Fitbit for exercising and even owns a lightsaber.

Ho Ching, in her Facebook post featuring a photo of herself with a Stromtrooper in Changi airport joked about her injury by writing, "Must remember to respect temperamental hoverboards!"

Thousands of her fans wished her a speedy recovery and of course a happy Chinese New Year. She was seen in other photographs too, with her left arm in a flexi-cast.

In Singapore the hoverboard craze is on, and they were selling like hotcakes during the December Christmas season. Form parents buying them for children to company gifts, the demand for hoverboards is on the rise. There have been safety concerns because of news of hoverboards catching fire, but no case has been reported in Singapore as yet.

In more hoverboard Singapore news, the authority for the safety of general household consumer goods, SPRING Singapore, has the hoverboards on its radar. SPRING says that they do not directly fall under their purview, however, the power adaptors used for charging the hoverboards have to be registered with SPRING and issued with a safety mark.

SPRING Singapore conducts regular market surveillance on adaptors, and has advised people to be careful when buying hoverboards. They advised people to buy from a reliable source, and to look carefully at the instructions and warning labels. They also have a product safety recall page, where people can check if their particular brand of hoverboard has been recalled.

Singapore airlines has also banned hoverboards on board even in checked-in baggage. Like a plethora of other airlines, they are worried about the low quality batteries bursting into flames.

In fact Singapore Airlines said that its existing luggage restrictions say that no battery with more than eight grams of lithium or 160 watt hours can be carried on board. This restriction prevents hoverboards, Segways and electric bicycles to be carried on board. They have now extended this restriction to include all hoverboards, regardless of what their power supply specs are.

Russell Crowe Hoverboard incident

Recently, Russel Crowe the Gladiator star, had a Twitter showdown with Virgin Australia, after he was not allowed to carry his children’s hoverboards on a flight from Sydney to Coffs Harbour.

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Russell Crowe was upset about the fact that he had not been informed beforehand about not being able to carry hoverboards on board Virgin Australia airlines. He was going on holiday with his children, and was not allowed to book the hoverboards on the flight.

Quite angry about it all, he vowed never to travel by Virgin again.

He then went into a Tweet-rant which was answered very politely by Virgin.

Here is how that Twitter conversation went:

With Virgin informing him about the fact that hoverboards were listed under dangerous goods and that they were mentioned on the booking and confirmation emails, Russell didn’t really have too much to say.

In fact in mid-December 2015, a notice issued by the International Air Travel Association pointed out nearly 60 airlines around the world, including Virgin, Emirates, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Qantas, that had banned hoverboards as carry-on and checked baggage.

Comedian, Joel Creasey, sent out a cheeky tweet telling Russell to ‘get some perspective’, who answered with some left-over angst. Here’s how that two tweet long conversation went:

Wiz Khalifa Handcuffed at airport for riding his hoverboard

A celebrity who got into some real trouble with a hoverboard at the airport was Wiz Khalifa. The rapper refused to get off his hoverboard and was apprehended by Customs and Border Patrol officers. When he was approached by the police officers, Khalifa refused to leave his hoverboard, tweeting that ‘I didn't want to ditch the [technology] everyone will be using in the next 6 months’.

Three policemen forced him to the ground and handcuffed him.

Here is the raw footage of Wiz Khalifa’s run in with the law at the airport for riding his hoverboard.

Here is a video of Wiz taking his gold hoverboard through the Los Angeles International Airport (it's rather long, the first minute will give a good idea of how Wiz hoverboards through airports):