by Liz Gumbinner | Gear + Hardware, Life and Home
One look at the Italian Cromatica Bluetooth speakers and…whoa. Think of this lamp-speaker hybrid like a mood ring for your home. You choose the color illumination that suits you, choose your music, then lie back and chill. Or, clean your bathroom. Or, get some...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Social Media
Last year, I fell in love with the A Color Story app for photo editing, and named it my cool pick of the week on our Spawned podcast. Just this weekend, they launched A Design Kit, their equally fun, friendly, and really wonderful app this time for design. Especially...
by Liz Gumbinner | Gift Guides
We always love looking for the most fun, geeky Valentine’s Day cards every year. After all, some of our favorite valentines are geeks!. Whether they’re our kids or our sweethearts, we’ve put together some awesome geeky Valentine’s Day cards...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps
Considering Disney has had their own wait time line trackers for years now, and now, thanks to my favorite travel app TripIt, you’ll be able to track real-time security wait times at the airport. It’s a feature now available to Pro subscribers and it will...
by Liz Gumbinner | Babies, Photography
Since CES 2018, we’ve been featuring our favorite tech picks for parents and I’d be remiss if I didn’t share the incredible new high-tech baby monitors that I got a chance to check out. While there are certainly a lot more that we’ll be trying...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tech Toys, Entertainment, Kids
Wow was I excited to discover Jooki at CES 2018. I mean, I saw a whole lot of new tech for kids, but not a whole lot beyond STEM and coding toys that really made me go wow. So I’ll be sharing a few top favorites for kids over the coming days, but I have to start...
by Liz Gumbinner | Travel
Among all the hardware, wires, and molded plastic at CES 2018 this year, I admit I made a beeline for the Mighty Purse booth, which featured the most gorgeous floor to (almost) ceiling display of charging purses that would be stunning, even if they didn’t charge...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tech Toys
I’ve been back several days from CES 2018, the Consumer Electronic Show, and I’m so happy to discover so many innovative new coding toys for kids this year that are giving new meaning to “best coding toys for kids.” Wow, how far we’ve...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps
My timeline started blowing up with bizarre side-by-side photos of selfies and museum portraits. I tracked it down as a feature of the new Google Arts & Culture app (iOS and Android) which is free, fun, and possibly has some educational value in it too. Scroll...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Tips and Tricks
Last week on family vacation, atop the San Jacinto Mountain with the scenic Coachella Valley behind me, of course tons of selfies were taken. As is the law these days. When it was my turn to pull out my phone, I realized I couldn’t get a flattering angle, and...