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Weird contraption turns your hoverboard into a hover

Two-wheeled hoverboards may simultaneously be some of the most maligned and most coveted gadgets on the market. The small rolling platforms have been implicated in a series of battery fires. Amazon stopped selling them. And yet you still see people zipping around on them. Now there’s a bizarre accessory that lets you sit and roll. The Hoverboard Cart comes from …

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Deadpool brings the heat for DVD and Blu

“Deadpool” was a record breaker at the box office, but 20th Century Fox isn’t resting on its laurels for the Merc with a Mouth’s foray into DVD and Blu-ray. The most interesting of the extras is a five-part, 80-minute documentary on the making of the film. There’ll also be a gag reel, art galleries and something called “Deadpool’s Fun Sack.” …

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Bourne is back: Matt Damon gets his action hero on in new ‘Jason Bourne’ trailer

Jason Bourne is back and bigger than ever. Literally. Dude is jacked. Universal Pictures on Wednesday released a new trailer for “Jason Bourne,” the fifth film in the Bourne franchise. It features riots, explosions and Matt Damon boxing people in the desert. The film, loosely based on Robert Ludlam’s spy novels and also starring Tommy Lee Jones and Julia Stiles, …

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Get an unlocked BlackBerry Priv for $434.99

CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Well, I’m just batting 1.000 this week! First that Dell printer sold out lickety-split, and then yesterday’s bonus deal suffered from code-doesn’t-work-itis. (For …

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Pot

Want to give your Passover seder a higher purpose? Perhaps adding a sprig of cannabis to your seder plate and sprinkling in some reefer references will do the trick. That’s what Roy and Claire Kaufmann suggest. The husband and wife from Portland, Oregon, have created a cannabis-themed Passover haggadah prayerbook in hopes of sparking discussion about US drug policy (yes, …

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Get to da Falcon! ‘Schwarzenegger’ does commentary for ‘Force Awakens’

The Blu-ray release for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has a ton of extra features that offer great insights into the making of director J.J. Abrams’ epic sci-fi film. However, it doesn’t have any audio commentaries from the cast members, the writers or even Abrams. Hopefully, that will change in the future since Disney is bound to release new “special …

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