Life + Home

There were no shortage of sleep gadgets at CES 2015 this year, and you can bet my interest was piqued. If there's anything I need more of in my life, other than Bradley Cooper (not entirely joking), it's sleep. Now we just recently featu…

One of my New Year's resolutions this year is to get my kids their own homework spaces so that I'm not asking them to clean their notebooks and backpacks off the kitchen table while I'm in the final stages of dinner prep each night. In m…

My house has more than one room in it. I'd bet this doesn't surprise you, but for years our thermostat hasn’t seemed to grasp this idea. I've long suspected that it doesn’t accurately reflect the temperature in my bedroom, or in the kitc…

Sometimes it feels like there aren't enough strong heroes for girls in TV and movies for my own daughters to look up to, which is why I love how artist Scott Park has illustrated 80 phenomenal female heroes and put them into in his spect…

There are quite a few virtual decorating online resources that allow you to place your virtual furniture in your virtual home to get a sense of what it will look like. We've liked SketchUp , NousDecor , and even the awesome augmented rea…

I think it's fair to say that you know you're a parent when you're excited about Dyson news , even more when it's something you need to survive the winter with kids, which is why we're counting down the days until we can get our hands on…

Seeing as how our friends at Think Geek are having a big sale right now, I was poking around for what must-have (I use that term loosely) I'll come across, and wouldn't you know it? I found a contender in this set of stackable Star Wars …

If you're looking for a super cool geek gift , well, we tend to have plenty around here. And now I've found one more, with the incredibly creative vintage patent art from RetroFoto on Etsy. The vintage camera patent drawings are just suc…

This week, I got a look at at the amazing Swash system , a machine is being billed as the only in-home clothing care system that works in just ten minutes. It's not quite a personal dry cleaning machine; it doesn't actually clean anythin…

There's no doubt that we are entering the era of the connected home. Products like the Belkin WeMo , WiFi slow cooker and Apple's rollout of HomeKit just scratch the surface of the influx of technology we expect in the coming year to hel…

While it may still be pleasant and warm -- I'm currently wearing flip flops here in Denver myself -- winter will soon be on its way. Too many NYC residents live in buildings with inadequate heat, but Heat Seek NYC aims to help change tha…

With my third baby who has been on the move for a few months, I re-realized how vigilant we have to be when it comes to babyproofing. She is into everything, including electrical outlets (ack!), which is why I'm so glad I discovered the …

Earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we saw a preview of the WeMo smart appliances by Belkin that will make our busy home lives a little easier to manage, even if we aren't home. And I'm happy to report that t…

As every parent would probably agree, sleep is essential but often elusive. So when we heard that the Sense sleep monitoring system had totally blown its Kickstarter goal out of the water, we weren't surprised. But we were super curious …

When I can manage to wrestle my iPad out of my children's hands (shaking my fist at you, Minecraft), it is often because I need it as my cookbook. While I've liked products like the iPad cutting board for propping up the tablet right whe…

Anyone who's been through childproofing knows that outlet covers leave much to be desired. In fact, outlets in general leave a much to be desired. And so the makers of the LivingPlug's INLET came up with a clever way to change that, as y…

I invested in an air purifier years ago--a big, huge machine that was noisy and ugly, but sure did work to remove the dust and pollen from the air that makes us so sneezy around here. It never made it to our current home, so I, for one, …

When I saw the Baby Brezza Formula Pro on Cool Mom Picks awhile back, I wished that the Keurig-like formula maker had been around when my littles were still hitting the bottle. And clearly so do thousands of you! Well, now it's available…

My dad gave me his old Canon SLR many moons ago. It was a thing of beauty. But then I got dazzled by digital and the old-school steel horse was handed down to my little sister ... and then got stolen from her college dorm. That camera de…

Click your heels three times if it makes you happy, but otherwise, just walk in the door, flip open that laptop, and get surfing. And don't take it for granted; after a weekend spent in a conference basement with absolutely no signal, it…

Long live my Grandpa's reel-to-reel, symbol of long, boring vacation films we were forced to sit through for hours on end as children. And now--yeah, I feel a sort of nostalgic longing for that kind of simplicity, pulling down the giant …

When friends or family (or babysitters or playdate parents) visit, it's not long before someone asks what your Wi-Fi password is. These cool printable WiFi password signs an an easier alternative to having to remember a password like min…

The new Amazon Dash is the closest thing to a real magic wand that I've ever seen. If you haven't seen it yet, prepare to be amazed at its brilliance. It's the size of a Wii remote (hey, something else we love!) and connects to your Amaz…

If you're redecorating, considering redecorating, or have even once had a vague dream about redecorating that you kind of remembered in the morning, it's a pretty exciting time to roll up your sleeves get it done. Especially considering …