In just a few months, two-wheeled motorized scooters have been popping up everywhere. They’re almost as ubiquitous as the selfie stick was last summer. Popularly called a “hoverboard,” they’ve quickly leapt from an Internet meme to a sought after item on many holiday wish lists. So where did these people movers come from? Mostly Shenzhen, billed as the Silicon Valley of China. Buzzfeed News Reporter Joseph Bernstein detailed the rise of the hoverboard and the factories that make them. “The hoverboard phenomenon started early this year or maybe spring of this year, when rappers and celebrities — Wiz Khalifa, Justin Bieber, Kendall Jenner — started tweeting and Instagramming and Vining about them,” Bernstein said. "From there, American distributors started looking to China and asking their manufacturers to make these boards."
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