Cool Mom Staff, Author at Cool Mom Tech

Best Buy Wish List: Home Theater, yeah!

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! With six kids between us, our movie theater is our home television. And really, with all...

Best Buy Wish List Video – Last Minute Shopping Tips

by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks

Here’s the next fun installment as part of our Best Buy Wish List video series featuring our co-founder Kristen. This time she’s getting a few last minute shopping tips from a friendly Blue Shirt who’s got the inside scoop on things like the last...

Best Buy Wish List: Mobile Accessories

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! Of course one of the big holiday gifts these days is a smart phone, especially with all...

Would you pay to cheat on Angry Birds?

by Cool Mom Staff | Games + Gaming

I admit that I’ve been completely sucked into the Angry Birds craze, as has my entire family. So much s, that my kids know exactly what level we’re stuck on. Level 16 on Angry Birds Seasons, if you’re curious. So I have to admit that my interest was...

Dads Dig This – BeSpeak iPhone app

by Cool Mom Staff | For the Menfolk

Our next Dads Dig This guest blogger is David Wescott, a Durham, NC-based dad who writes about public relations, science communication, and politics at It’s Not a Lecture. I admit that most of the time you can find me in worn jeans and something with a Red Sox...

Best Buy Wish List: eReaders and Tablets (Oooooh!)

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! If you’re like us, then you’ve got a tablet or e-readers high on your holiday...

Best Buy Wish List: 2010 Holiday Gift Guide

by Cool Mom Staff | Holiday Picks, Holiday Tech Gifts

We’re having such a great time working with Best Buy here on Cool Mom Tech over the last week. (You have been entering our gift card giveaways, right?) In fact, a few days ago, our co-founder Kristen headed out to her local Best Buy to chat with one of their...

Web Coolness: iPhone book apps for kids, password help, and XBox preparedness

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some things we’ve liked reading around the web this week. We hope you will too. Getting a new gaming system for the holidays? PopSci has tips on setting up your living room for XBox with Kinect. (Via Unplgged) To keep the kids busy on those last minute...

Nook vs. Kindle – An e-reader smackdown

by Cool Mom Staff | E-Readers

Whether you’ve got an e-readers at the top of your holiday list, or you’re shopping for one as a gift for someone else like I am, with so many to choose from it can be…well, hard to choose. So we decided to compare two of the hottest e-readers...

Best Buy Wish List: Gaming (whoo!)

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! It’s no secret that we have a thing for gaming around here. Must be all those years...

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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.)

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