Gear + Hardware

Question: How many Beyoncés does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer: As many as you're in the mood for, because these rad LED light bulbs are also Bluetooth wireless speakers. So basically whatever strikes your fancy when you're tu…

We've covered plenty of portable, Bluetooth speakers here at Cool Mom Tech, but I think the brand new JBL Charge 2+ basically blew all the other ones right out of the water. Heh. The JBL Charge 2+ is already getting plenty of use at our …

Plenty of coolness was rolled out at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference this week, and we're here to share the intel with you that we think parents will care about most. And yeah, non parents too. The biggest news is that Apple iOS …

Browsing the crowdfunding scene, we're always amazed by the space-age ideas being brought to life out there and making us go, whoa . Now, it's the the Light Phone , an ultra compact phone that totally looks like it's from a sci-fi movie.…

We've been fans of the cord taco ever since we first discovered it awhile back, but they've cleverly whipped them up in gorgeous metallic leather (hello!) and packaged them in Mother's Day bundles for the tech-loving mom. And we're all o…

With one of the main complaints about the new Macbook 2015 stemming around the single USB port, it makes perfect sense that technologists and developers are on that issue, stat. Because hello, functionality? Not all of us have all the ti…

When I read "Designed and made by perfectionists" at FeelFeltLt , I knew I had landed at the right Etsy shop. And when I perused through their selection of wool gadget covers, I knew they weren't just tooting their own horn. Each gorgeou…

If you're an Apple fan like me, then you had the Apple Watch Event marked on your calendar with multiple alarms yesterday. But it turns out that the Apple Watch wasn't actually the star of the show. For me, and from the number of tweets …

From the everything old is new again files, may we present the Wooden Boombox ? It's actually a Bluetooth speaker, but on the outside, it's a brilliant hat tip to the old school boombox of my misspent 80's youth. Only better. because thi…

I have seen a lot of really cool wireless speakers, but the first thing to catch my eye on the Aether Cone was the shape. It felt like a throwback to the old-timey gramophone, and the copper and black color combo totally amplified the co…

New year, new you. Of course, we've all heard (and probably said) this catchy line each time January 1 rolls around. But instead of promising to completely overhaul our lives with major changes, we're starting small and smart with this r…

This week at the International CES, I was honored to sit down with Andrea Smith of MommyTech TV (link coming soon!) and share some of my favorite products for families that I had seen at the show early on. I knew exactly what I wanted my…

We've covered plenty of Bluetooth speakers here on Cool Mom Tech, from teeny, slide-in-your-pocket speakers to rattle-the-wood desk, powerhouse ones. But when I saw that Harman Audio -- the world's largest car audio manufacturer -- was b…

With its see-through dome, gentle glow-y light and curved corners, the new Harman Kardon Aura Bluetooth speaker system looks like something out of an art gallery or maybe even a space museum. To be honest, I wasn't sure at first if the d…

Though reading to the kids has always been one of my favorite things to do, it’s not always possible for those of us who travel for work, have a newborn, or just get too busy to drop everything to read a book for the fourth time in an ho…

I am looking for a compact Bluetooth speaker for my daughter for the holidays. I don't want to spend a fortune, but I do want good quality. And she's 6, so I'd like it to be something she can grow with. - Jennifer It's a definite cool mo…

Up until a couple years ago, I held on steadfastly to the whole idea of wanting to read with a real book in my hands, as opposed to seeing digitized pages on an e-reader. That is, until I got my hands on a Kindle , and became hooked. So …

These days, you can't swing a USB cable a foot without knocking over at least 40 different Bluetooth wireless speakers . And that's just the good ones. Thanks to Cool Mom Tech, I've been lucky enough to try out a lot of these same speake…

As our resident Sonos evangelist - although not the only one around here - I'm always excited when they launch something new, because their product releases tend to come slowly but thoughtfully. And today (as in, right now this very seco…

It's no secret that kids love farms and animals, and at this time of year many families are making trips to experience hayrides, apple picking and pumpkin carving. But if a drive out to the country isn't in the cards, the new kid-focused…

Ever since the big Apple announcement last week, I find myself ogling over the iPhone 6/6+ and the Apple Watch . They're just so darn pretty. And seeing some great buyback programs is definitely enticing me to trade up from the iPhone 5,…

September always brings two emotional events for me: 1) the kids going back to school and 2) Apple's annual announcement. Okay, so emotional may be an overstatement on the second event, but the gorgeousness that is the new iPhone 6 actua…

We're not ashamed to let our Soundfreaq fan flag fly. We definitely dig what they're doing over there, matching style with audio substance, and its latest wireless Bluetooth speaker delivers on that promise. The new speaker is called the…

When it comes to all the photos and videos on my iPhone camera roll (uh, all 5,373 of them), my usual tagline is I should do something with those. That's the party line year after year, and in the meantime, that camera roll just keeps ge…