Attending the fancy-schmancy Tribeca Film Festival–in your pajamas
Ah, those halcyon days of yore, back when I used to go to midnight movies downtown and see foreign films at the art house and pack a lunch for the Star Wars marathon at the megaplex. Now the most exotic thing I see is Glee, and that's from the comfort of my own bed.So...
What’s up Dock?
I've seen my fair share of iPhone docks, and most of them are a little too bulky for my taste and my limited desk space. So as I was doing my weekly scan of Kickstarter (love them), I was so excited to find this new gadget that is exactly what I need. The ODOC...
Color yourself silly
Have you ever sat down to color with your kids? Not just doodle, but really dig in with the crayons, the markers, the familiar smell of construction paper...it's really quite soothing, actually. I'd never want to give up the essential magic of real art supplies, but...
Pholium: Professional photo e-books right on your iPad
I've come to a conclusion recently that I must make my peace with - I'm never going to catch up on updating my photo albums. Deep breaths. I've made valiant efforts to get prints made, but being about 1,247 photos behind in just two years, I'm glad I just discovered a...
A lacy, ladylike iPhone cover that’s totally tough
Mother's Day will be here before you can say "breakfast in bed" and, this year, I know exactly what I want. It's flowery, it's lacy, it's sooo pretty.And my iPhone is going to look gorgeous in it. The Blossom cover for iPhone 4/4s is utter sweetness--but, make no...
Earth Day is coming up – 3 ways to power your gadgets a little greener
I'm so loving the concept behind the SecondWind battery charger that Liz covered a couple weeks ago. We are massive consumers of batteries at our house and I feel the same way Liz does each time one gets disposed of. With Earth Day just around the corner, this...
Kids’ music download of the week: Frutero
In a couple of weeks, I'll head to Brooklyn for the fourth annual Kindiefest kids' music conference. It's fun, enlightening, supportive, and---as you'd expect---full of great music from some of our favorite kids' performers. And though the first half of the...
GiftSimple: How group gift-giving gets simple (get it?)
So Mother's Day is coming up and she's like the ONLY person who doesn't have an iPad and darn it, the third version just came out and it's just about time, right? The only problem is, that you can't afford to get her one on your own. If you think you can to rely on...
Barnyard Dance is like a hoedown for your iPad. In a good way.
Farm animals, banjo music, red and white gingham--it's the stuff of knee-slapping, toe-tapping hoedowns. I know, I rolled my eyes a bit initially, too, until I realized that the Barnyard Dance app is an adaptation of one of Sandra Boynton's most beloved board books....
An app to teach kids hygiene, cleanliness, and uh, other stuff you do in the bathroom.
With two kids under the age of six running around the house, the importance of keeping tops and tails fresh and relatively clean comes up a lot. A lot. Personal hygiene is still in work in progress for both of them, but I'm pretty confident that one day, boogers will...
Turn your iPhone into a Polaroid
I still remember my Polaroid camera and how cool I thought I was, able to snap pictures and have them print out instantly. So talk about blast from the past when I saw these cool iPhone skins. The Deluxe Polaroid Camera iPhone 4 skins turn your smart phone into a...
E-readers come out of the dark with NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight
As great as the e-ink technology is for outdoor and daylight reading, you can't read it in the dark. Which is what my husband rather unfortunately discovered the first time he tried to read his new Kindle in bed. Well now with Barnes & Noble's newest gadget, you...
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This Nintendo controller table’s got game.
Okay Nintendo fanbois and grrls, if you grew up on Donkey Kong, we've found that coffee table you've always dreamed about. It's made to look like an actual Nintendo controller. And guess what? The controller actually works. The Nintendo Controller Coffee Table by the...
Get comfy with your Instagram photos
Now that you Android users can enjoy an Instagram obsession like me, the next thing you'll find yourself wanting to do is to display your photos on something other than your smart phone screen. So aside from all the cool ways you can print Instagram photos, now you...
5 smart tech tips for traveling with kids
If your family is anything like mine, a vacation means loading up all the tech gadgets to keep the troops entertained for the long trip ahead. With a pilot in the house, we do much more flying than driving, which can make things a little tricky when it comes to...
Volume limiting headphones for kids that protect their ears, and their hipster cred
I'm a music lover. So it comes as no surprise that my kids dig their own crazy cool tunes. To be honest, I've shied away from kids' headphones because of real fears about child hearing loss. In fact, years of Walkman, Discman, iPod listening has left me has probably...
Springpad = Evernote + Pinterest + The next big thing?
I have spent the last few weeks Beta testing the new Springpad smart note website, which just launched yesterday. It's like visual curation meets organization meets professional collaboration meets listmania--four of my very favorite things. I have to admit, while at...
Pixar comes to life in Kinect Rush–and so will your kids.
I'm definitely an old school gamer who spent way too many hours during college with my butt on a couch and my hand firmly grasped around a controller developing sore thumbs. I love how far video games have come since then, as demonstrated by my Kinect for XBOX 360...
5 ways to get more out of Instagram
With Instagram finally available to Android users and now getting snatched up for 1 billion dollars by Facebook (whoa!), it seems like soon everyone will be on our beloved photo sharing app--aw Instagram, we can say we knew you when. So I've rounded up five cool ways...
Givit helps you avoid losing your precious Flip Cam videos
Pre-iPhone days (hard to believe there was ever a time), I relied heavily on two things to capture my daily life with my baby - my camera and my Flip video camera. If you can recall the ease of the Flip, the compact design, the big self-explanatory buttons...ah,...
High-tech Doc Martens? Well, kind of.
These boots were not made for walking. Or running, kicking, moshing, stomping, or reliving your misspent youth for that matter. These Doc Marten Boots are just 2" tall and actually, they're made for digital storage. These 2" tall black boots pop open to reveal a USB...
Snapjoy: A brilliant way to organize and protect your photos. (No more excuses!)
For all the spouting off I do about organizing your digital photographs, backing them up and filing them neatly away, I have a confession: My iPhoto is a bogged-down, disorganized mess of a thing. For all that "delete! delete! delete!" preaching I do, I should take...
An amazing interactive journal app that feels so much cooler to write in than a journal
Oh, I used to journal. And I still do, kind of--if you consider typing out whatever memories and thoughts I can actually remember at the end of a long day. Like a lot of new parents, journaling has taken a bit of a back seat these days to things like--oh, sleep. And...
Kids’ music download of the week: Spring Has Sprung
Even on years when the kids have to wear snow boots for the egg hunt, Easter has always felt like the start of spring. So my pick this week is a perfectly-timed song off of Frances England's much-loved 2008 release, Family Tree. The gentle acoustic guitar picking...