If you’ve got children of a certain age, you’ll know how fond they are of the plastic ride-on electric cars you can buy at any toy store in the U.S. You’ll also know that as they grow, children ...

For generations, toy racing cars have stayed essentially the same—they may have added more flashing lights, cooler designs, and faster speeds but were essentially different versions of a hunk of ...

Cars, the animated Pixar movie that cast Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, and Larry the Cable Guy as anthropomorphic automobiles, screeched into theaters in 2006 wooing kids, parents, and critics alike. The ...

I might be the only person at Gizmodo that likes Sphero’s new Cars toy. My co-workers hate the way the robot announces it’s going to sleep, and the long animated process it takes to wake up. They’re ...

There were plenty of merchandising tie-ins when Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was released but the coolest of all was the interactive BB-8 designed by robotic toy company Sphero. Now, the company has ...

With any Disney movie comes an onslaught of merchandise to go along with the release, and the upcoming Cars 2 film is no exception. Of course, the main character, Lightning McQueen, voiced by Owen ...

Sphero's made a name for itself with connected, rolling toys like the Ollie, SPRK and, perhaps most famously, the Star Wars-inspired BB-8. Of course, the company couldn't have brought its replica of ...