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 ...

The Ultimate Lightning McQueen by Sphero is even cooler than the company’s Star Wars BB-8 creation. About two years ago, Sphero caught the attention of many when it released an interactive BB-8 toy ...

My kids touch Lightning McQueen’s hood, and it rises up on its tires to meet their hands. My son, after a few minutes, says he’s figured out how the touch zones work. They start trying to ask ...

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 ...

Today, Kirby’s focus has shifted toward following industry news, and he has a sincere passion for one-off and tuned vehicles, car toys (especially LEGO brand,) and anything else even closely related ...

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 ...

Pixar’s original Cars movie worked because you believed cars had feelings. Anthropomorphized vehicles talking, fighting, falling in love. It all clicked because of Pixar’s animation prowess and the ...

Aiden's been an entertainment freelancer for over 10 years covering movies, television and the occasional comic or video game beat. If it's anything Shawshank Redemption, Seinfeld, or Kevin Bacon game ...

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 ...

The product is controlled through a companion iOS / Android app over Bluetooth. Kids can play a mobile game that has them help in a virtual pitstop to outfit cars. Lightning McQueen, the actual toy, ...

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 ...