Cool Mom Staff, Author at Cool Mom Tech

Happy 2011, cool moms!

We can’t thank you enough for joining us over here at Cool Mom Tech, and making our first few months amazing. Truly, your support and readership allows us to continue doing what we love. And for that, we’re incredibly grateful. (And if you haven’t...

Web Coolness: Angry Birds gingerbread house, green tech, email snooping arrest.

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some things we’ve liked reading around the web this week, to round out 2010. We hope you will too. The Angry Birds GingerbreadHouse by gaming blogger and brand new dad–congrats!– Zero-Lives ( will blow you away, right down to the green apple...

The best Beatles songs for kids

by Cool Mom Staff | Audio

While there are some awesome kindie rock bands out there that we’ve featured both here and on Cool Mom Picks, there are plenty of awesome “adult” tunes out there that work just as well for our kids. Now that the Beatles are on iTunes (whoo!),...

Best Buy Wish List Video – Post Holiday Shopping Tips

by Cool Mom Staff | Holiday Tech Gifts

If you were lucky enough to score a Best Buy gift card from Santa, or just want to get a jump start on your New Year’s resolutions, our co-founder Kristen, along with a Best Buy Geek Squad agent, can help you out. Check out this video in which she reveals all...

Piquing Our Geek: Amazon’s bad gift exchange system

by Cool Mom Staff | Helpful Services

This morning we read about the new bad gift exchange system patented by Amazon, and we had to ask ourselves: Best idea ever? Or the end of graciousness as we know it? CNN described it as “the nuclear option for gifts” – a kind of system that would...

Best Buy Wish List: Computers. Pretty, pretty computers.

by Cool Mom Staff | Holiday Tech Gifts

Best Buy Wish List is a sponsored series in which we feature the things we’re coveting at Best Buy–and then give away gift cards so you can buy them yourself. Whee! Computers are pretty important gadgets to us bloggers. Imagine that. It’s a sickness...

With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of LED-backlit pixels

by Cool Mom Staff | Educational Apps For Kids

If you woke up to snowmageddon this morning like we did (or more like a typical winter snowfall with a new 24 hour news cycle-friendly, alarmist name), your kids are probably begging you to get out there with them as soon as humanly possible. If they haven’t...

Web Coolness: Holiday travel tips, charitable giving, and getting organized

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some things we’ve liked reading around the web this week. We hope you will too. Our Co-Founder Liz Gumbinner offers up car travel tips for families on the CBS Early Show including a smart story app and some great kids CDs for download. Looking for a...

Merry Christmas to you!

by Cool Mom Staff | Holiday Picks

From Liz, Kristen, Beth, Christina, and everyone at Cool Mom Tech, we wish you a peaceful, happy, wonderful day, filled with good family, good food, and hopefully not too many plastic clamshell packs to have to pry open. And thanks to all of you for helping to make...

Board games go 2.0 with Winter Land

by Cool Mom Staff | Games + Gaming

Before the kids go to bed and Santa’s elves get busy wrapping gifts, we spend Christmas Eve drinking egg nog, playing games, and watching movies with the kids. But now that we have the iPad, we’ll probably add a round or two of a digital board game into...

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Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz

Kristen Chase + Liz Gumbinner of Cool Mom Picks

We started Cool Mom Tech in 2010 to help make our increasingly digital lives easier, more organized, more meaningful, and more fun, however old your kids may be.

We love that it's grown to become the go-to source for millions of parents who want commonsense info about tech delivered with a smile.

We even have the privilege of sharing our tips + tricks with The TODAY Show, CNN, HLN, GMA, Nightline, newspapers and magazines around the country, and our favorite -- regular parents who stop us at PTA meetings and ask us how old kids need to be to get a smartphone, and whether they really need to panic about Snapchat.

(Answer: It's complicated.)

We're so glad you're here! And we hope we can help you too.