Kristen Chase, Author at Cool Mom Tech

Skillshare brings the coolest classes to you instead of you having to go to them.

I’m really thrilled to introduce you to my new obsession, Skillshare, a wonderful community that offers online classes to help you learn new skills and dial up your creativity–or simply get it back. If you’re like me, you often see all sorts of cool...

The My Old Basement LEGO kit: Why should the kids born after 1996 have all the fun?

by Kristen Chase | Tech Toys and Random Fun

With all these new LEGO sets coming out, like Scooby Doo LEGO and Doctor Who LEGO, I’ve got total LEGO envy. Why should the kids get all the cool stuff? Well, this new My Old Basement LEGO kit is all mine. Designed by artist Chris McVeigh (a.k.a. Power Pig) who...

The new YouTube Kids app. For parents with children who love YouTube. AKA all children everywhere.

by Kristen Chase | Fun Apps for Kids

I cannot tell you how excited I am about the new YouTube Kids app that just launched today. Over the years, we’re continually asked how to find great videos for kids on YouTube by parents, and while we’ve shared various safer YouTube apps as well as our...

Web Coolness: The new SNL app, museums ban selfie sticks, and when kids should be on social media

by Kristen Chase | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do. Watch all your favorite Saturday Night Live skits right on your smartphone. Awesome. Speaking of SNL, we love how Norm Macdonald used his Twitter account...

The Milk Nanny lets you make a baby bottle with your smartphone.

by Kristen Chase | Smart Appliances

I’m not even kidding when I say that the Beaba Bib’expresso bottle warmer, which totally looks and acts like a coffee maker, saved my butt with my fourth baby back in 2010. I was traveling a lot and doing the breastfeeding, pumping, formula bottle mash-up...

You spin me right round baby

by Kristen Chase | Audio

I can still remember my first record player, and let me assure you it looked nothing like this gorgeous Crosley USB record player that I’m sure would make your favorite music lover swoon on Valentine’s Day. Available exclusively at Urban Outfitters, this...

Gorgeous USB jewelry for Valentine’s Day or any day.

by Kristen Chase | Fashion + Accessories

We’ve featured all sorts of stylish USB jewelry here on Cool Mom Tech before, and really, it’s a pretty awesome gift idea (if we do say so ourselves). These blinged-out pieces from Swarovski definitely say “I love you” in a fantastically geeky...

Love me Tinder

by Kristen Chase | Holiday Picks

It’s true that Tinder has a reputation for being a hook-up app, but hey, people have met on it and fallen in love, or at least, heavy like. And if that’s you, well this Valentine’s Day card is for you Internet lovebirds. This hilarious card is one of...

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.)

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