by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks
There’s that wonderful moment when you first open up the box of your newest gadget and just smile at it. Some folks even give the new, shiny, and often pricy tech toy its own special name. At no point during this grand unboxing do you envision the gadget in...
by Kate Etue | Tips and Tricks
Spring cleaning fever has hit hard at my house and this week I’ve purged closets, vacuumed under furniture, and checked the expiration date on every canned good and spice in my pantry. Goodbye, can of beans that expired in 2012. Now I’m tackling all the...
by Nicole Blades | Tips and Tricks
Do you have some basic tech chore to do — say, deleting old digital photos — but you just never seem to find the time to get to it? It’s like permanently etched in your to-do list, and every time you scroll through your loaded smartphone camera roll,...
by Liz Gumbinner | Uncategorized
When the small tech accessory company This is Ground first launched the Cordito and the Cord Taco — clever little cord taming leather accessories named for Tex-anything-but-Mex fast food favorites, well we knew we liked these guys right away. Since then, their...
by Nicole Blades | Uncategorized
The black and white standard-issue cables that come with your devices? Bor-ing. Just because we can’t live tech life without cables doesn’t mean they can’t be fun. They not only can match your decor, or stand out in your bag when you travel with...
by Kate Etue | Uncategorized
All the typing I do during the day has really built up tension in my arms, and probably other parts too. After studying up on ergonomics, I have some ideas about how to change my workspace, starting with a laptop stand for my MacBook. So this week, I’ve been...
by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks
The holidays are coming—as in, fast—and that means company. While we’re always thinking about organization tips like cleaning off the china or straightening the bookshelves, it’s easy to forget about what a presence tech is in our homes and how it can...
by Nicole Blades | Travel
I still can’t believe how small and smart Kii is, a compact charger that fits right on your keychain. Hence the name. Get it? Now we’ve loved Bluelounge ever since we featured their CableBox awhile back, and their new Kii falls right in line. It’s...
by Cool Mom Team | Gear + Hardware, Life and Home
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 all the tech...
by Cool Mom Team | Travel
If there’s one tech trend we’re excited about, it’s the increasing number of solar chargers (and not just because cord nests that grow around our outlets make us crazy). Now there’s one more I discovered and it’s not just smart,...