Cool Mom Staff, Author at Cool Mom Tech

The Echo Livescribe Smartpen digitizes your notes, no typing required

by Cool Mom Staff | Tech Toys and Random Fun

No matter how many gadgets with keyboards are available, we kind of hope that actual writing never goes away. Kids still take notes at school and parents write notes at home or work. However if you don’t transcribe your notes to a computer, or organize them all...

Welcome to Cool Mom Tech!

by Cool Mom Staff | Meta

Welcome to the official launch of Cool Mom Tech! We are so glad to have you here. Don’t worry, you don’t have to be a so-called techie to feel at home here. You’re online right now mama, and that’s all the techie you need to be. Check in daily...

SpeakSake is like an audio scrapbook of awesomeness

by Cool Mom Staff | Lifestyle Apps

Previously posted on Cool Mom Picks Ever been the person in charge of a group gift, and discovered that special circle of purgatory that involves trying to contact large numbers of people and keep track of who’s done what and who still needs to contribute? Yeah....

Fish School: Teaching preschoolers letters, numbers, shapes, and more.

by Cool Mom Staff | Educational Apps For Kids

Previously posted on Cool Mom Picks So it’s become pretty clear that iPhone apps can be God’s technological gift to parents wanting to avoid toddler meltdowns in restaurants and pediatrician offices. Some of my favorite apps for the younger set come...

Bugaboo + iPhone = Conspicuous consumerism at its most practical

by Cool Mom Staff | Baby Tech, Strollers and Stroller-y Things

When I found out Bugaboo had come out with a smartphone holder, my first thought was to roll my eyes. What, we can’t stand the idea of being out of reach of our precious phones for the time it takes to fish it out of our jacket pockets in the park? But...

The Hipstamatic app is a photography blast from the past

by Cool Mom Staff | Photo Apps

I’m far from a photography expert, and admittedly, the only camera I use anymore is my iPhone. While every now and then I get a great picture with it, I often feel bad that the only pictures of my kids are taken with the sub-par quality of a camera phone. That...

Twitter handle necklaces = Status symbols for the uber geek. Oh yeah.

by Cool Mom Staff | Fashion + Accessories

Previously posted at Cool Mom Picks I shrieked with joy when friend of Cool Mom Picks and kids band The Jimmies lead singer Ashley Albert turned us onto her new collaborative project with Phoebe Jonas, Survival of the Hippest. And by hippest we mean techiest,...

How to use the Animoto app to make videos like a pro

by Cool Mom Staff | Video

With Animoto, you can create your very own free (free!) 30-second video and the results look, well, like you paid a pro. Here’s how it works. Related: Splice is a cool video editing app that we’re loving Just upload photos, add a few text slides, choose...

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.