9 awesome retro Apple Macintosh gifts to celebrate the Macintosh anniversary. 30 years? Wow.

by Christina Refford | Tech Toys

Thirty years ago, a sledgehammer flew across our television screens during the Super Bowl, heralding the birth of the Apple Macintosh personal computer on January 24, 1984. Today, many of us will celebrate the Macintosh anniversary by shooting emails from our 5th...

ROMO, the robotic pet, comes in peace. And, unlike a puppy, he won’t shed on the furniture

by Christina Refford | Tech Toys

If your kids are no longer enchanted by SIRI, there’s a new robot in town that is ready to enter their iPhone and make things fun again. Known as ROMO, this programmable robotic pet is part educational, part adorable, and part little fun plaything to crawl after...

Toymail Mailmen – The cutest of all options before kids are ready for their own cell phones.

by Kate Etue | Tech Toys

Really young kids aren’t ready for their own cell phones yet, but we love the idea of being able to communicate remotely with our elementary age kids while they’re with a babysitter or just send them a funny message while they’re playing in their...

A camera that will outlast even the fastest changing technology

by Julie | Tech Toys

By far, the toys that my kids have gotten the most mileage out of are the ones they use for pretend play. Their active imaginations are ageless, and as you start thinking holiday gifts, consider that it doesn’t necessarily take a real tech toy to engage a young...

Build-your-own computer kits for kids, all designed by another kid. Minds blown.

by Pilar | Tech Toys

We all know STEM is a big deal in schools these days. The combination of science, technology, engineering and math is what kids are living on a daily basis, so a 10-year-old entrepreneur named Ethan Saadia wants to encourage even more kids to really get into computer...

A safer camera toy for kids than your old point-and-shoot

by Liz Gumbinner | Tech Toys

So as it turns out, it’s not a good idea to give a small child your old tech to play with. Once we learned how many toxic components and metals were in those remote controls, cell phones and cameras, we’ve retrieved the outdated gadgets from their hands...

Piquing our geek: The Kapture bracelet can record all the hilarious things your kids say.

by Delilah S. Dawson | Tech Toys

Whether your kids say the darnedest things or your inspiration always strikes while you’re driving the car, this cool new device makes it easy to record and file the moments of your life, seconds after they happen. Would you wear this high-tech microphone?...

The female LEGO scientist minifig: only a few hundred years after actual female scientists have been changing the world

by Julie | Tech Toys

As much as we love LEGO, and have even made a case for the benefit of LEGO Friends, the company has still got a fairly wide gender gap. Fortunately, it’s clear they’re still working to close it. So we are pretty happy to see that LEGO has included a female...

Finally, a monthly subscription for geeks. And it’s bigger on the inside.

by Delilah S. Dawson | Tech Toys

We love covering cool monthly subscription boxes over on Cool Mom Picks. Whether you’re a foodie, a crafter, or a beauty maven, there’s someone willing to deliver carefully curated goodies to your door. My geek sisters, time to kneel before Zod. It’s...

The coolest flash drives from Mimobot on sale, in time for storing all that homework.

by Liz Gumbinner | Tech Toys

When your kids are old enough to head back to school with a laptop or tablet in that backpack, a dandy new flash drive to go with it is a must. Especially when the coolest ones happen to be on sale.   At Mimobot, their popular character flash drives are now 25%...

Simon is back. SIMON IS BACK. (Just making sure you understand how excited we are.)

by Liz Gumbinner | Tech Toys

I still remember spending hours on end playing Simon, that awesomely fun hand-held eletronic game which had you imitating the light patterns as they got increasingly hard. Get it: Simon Says? I cannot even believe it’s back. I still credit my strong memory today...

Geeky clean.

by Liz Gumbinner | Tech Toys

I love that geekery is spreading far and wide, out of the game room and into the rest of the house. Including the bathroom, with these unbelievable handmade soaps. Geeksoap is a combination of two very important things in a parent’s life: soap, and pop culture....