by Nicole Blades | Gear + Hardware
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 house and summer just...
by Nicole Blades | Gear + Hardware
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 behind the...
by Nicole Blades | Gear + Hardware
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...
by Nicole Blades | Gear + Hardware
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 speakers. Oh, the...
by Nicole Blades | Gear + Hardware
Sometimes you just want pump up your jams and listen out loud for the world to hear instead of keeping it contained to your headphones, which why you need to meet the Tadpole mini Bluetooth Speaker, the mini-est (let’s make this a word) portable music option on...
by Kristin | Gear + Hardware
The portable Bluetooth speaker market might be a crowded one, but I found a new one that not only packs a lot of punch into a small package, but does so with a bargain basement price. Playing around with the Anker MP141 Portable Bluetooth Speaker, I loved the sleek...
by Nicole Blades | Gear + Hardware
Most parents, especially those with toddlers, look at traditional night table alarm clocks and laugh. Alarms? We don’t need no stinkin’ alarms. No, we typically rely on our tiny humans, with their high energy and low tolerance for “sleeping...
by Kristin | Gear + Hardware
Remember when you used to have to wire your whole house for audio wire if you wanted decent sound? Yeah. We don’t do that anymore. The advances in portable speakers have been phenomenal, with great sound now coming from wireless systems like the Sonos, or single...
by Shari | Gear + Hardware, Travel
Not to feed into any stereotypes or anything, but in general, guys like tech. Oh sure, maybe your fella would be pumped to get a t-shirt inscribed with “World’s Greatest Dad” for Father’s Day, but let’s just say, for argument’s...