Black Friday: Tech steals and deals
I've never been one to wake up at 3:45 a.m. to participate in the madness of Black Friday, but some of the deals that have been surfacing of late have made it more tempting to consider the idea. It seems that each year, every major retailer wants to outdo its...
Arming yourself for the Black Friday shopping battlefield with the TGI Black Friday app
This year, I am in the mood for some fun holiday and technology shopping--fun meaning that I do it from home. But if you're heading out to brave the crowds today, first arm yourself with a mobile shopping app like the TGI Black Friday app for Android. TGI Black...
Happy Thanksgiving!
We hope you're all doing something home-y, happy, and dare we say, unplugged today. While we couldn't find you a pie-baking robot, we did score a fun, free Thanksgiving app that might help pass the time and give you a good chuckle while the turkey is cooking, football...
Amazing family-friendly MP3s to help you survive Thanksgiving travel
Going over the river and through the woods to get to your warm and cozy Thanksgiving destination isn't nearly so fun when the traffic is backed up as far as the eye can see, the kids are hungry and you forgot to stop at the last rest area. I can't make the traffic...
5 Reasons moms can be happy for the cloud
This post is sponsored by Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Live which let you do all sorts of cool things with the cloud. I am a busy mom. If you are a mom, you're likely one too. (Is there even such a thing as a not busy mom? I tend to doubt it.)So of course I'm...
Tis the season for kids holiday apps
With holidays officially starting this week (despite the carols that are already taking over the store speakers), I've been on the lookout for something festive, fun, and perhaps a little educational to get my kids in the Christmas spirit. And luckily I just happened...
Getting kids off the couch with the help of a Wii remote. And Dora.
I've said it before: I'm not usually a big fan of small children playing video games. But I make an exception when they've got some educational value and they get kids moving. I'm pleased to see that Nickelodeon and Nintendo have teamed up to do those very things with...
Deck your phone with a festive case
Because I'm really not a fan of snowman sweaters, light-up earrings, and all that holiday jazz, apparently some people think I'm an Ebenezer Scrooge. I say it's because I've yet to find the right festive accessory. That is, until I spotted the holiday CandyShell cases...
Freeing up parental brain space
Not to toot my own horn, but honestly, sometimes I'm amazed at the wealth of information I'm able to contain in my head--and access at a moment's notice. Kids' birthdays, kids' friends' birthdays, my friends' birthdays, my friends' kids' birthdays, anniversaries,...
Piquing our geek – Wellies that charge your cell phone
If ever I needed a reason to buy new boots, Wellies has just given me one with their soon to be released Orange Power Wellies that uses the heat from your feet to charge your cellphone.No, seriously. The cool designers at Wellies and the renewable energy experts...
Dreidels go high tech for Hanukkah
One of my family's favorite Hanukkah traditions is a rousing game of Dreidel. (I swear, I'm not just in it for the chocolate gelt!) Each year, we search for the perfect dreidel that spins just right, and we've ended up with quite a collection. But I have to say, my...
Web Coolness: Holiday help, turkey tech, and a Beatles bonanza
Here are some things we've liked reading around the web this week. We hope you will too. First, have you checked out the 2010 Cool Mom Picks holiday gift guide yet? With more than 120 gift ideas, nearly all available online, checking off that holiday list is easier...
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Well slap me silly
I am surely dating myself here when I confess that I had me one impressive collection of slap bracelets circa 1989. They were about a buck each at CVS as I recall, and it was nearly as savvy an allowance expense as four games of Donkey Kong or a few cans of New Coke....
Shooting from the heart – better than shooting from the hip.
I might be aging myself here, but remember when only professional photographers had professional cameras? Now it seems that every other house has a professional level camera, even if most people don't know how to get the most out of them.Enter the fabulous new book...
Sansa Fuze+ lets you walk and rock at the same tme
My kids are already clamoring over all the toy catalogs that have been coming in the mail, looking wide-eyed page by page at the potential holiday bounty. They're still on the young side to be begging for an electronic device, but portable media players of any kind...
Turn your old shirt into a laptop sleeve
My husband and I are complete opposites in a lot of ways, but especially when it comes to keeping and tossing. Me being the tosser. I do a monthly purge of my closet whereas he holds onto almost everything, somehow rationalizing that he will, once again, use it or...
Comic books go green and ultra-portable
I had a boyfriend in college who had boxes upon boxes of his "favorite" comic books. (Which ones were his favorites? All of them!) I found it a little weird, but hey, collectors are kind of different, right?Well, now I have a son who wants to collect comic books. I...
MobiGo by VTech gets the skeptical mom vote
My near 4 year-old son has been eying my oldest's Nintendo DS for awhile now, but he's just not quite old enough to do anything but ask us to help him play a game. Sort of defeats the point of having it. But since the brand new MobiGo from VTech arrived in our house,...
Getting more shopping bang for less buck online
We're so thrilled to be part of the launch of the brand new Windows Phone which is helping people, including moms like us, do more with less. We here at Cool Mom Tech live by the technology of online shopping. (Boy, do our credit cards know that.) But thankfully,...
Speakers that are music to a mom’s ears
My son is really into music and I can usually hear it blasting from his room, but the other day I was screaming and screaming...I mean requesting that he make his presence known.No response. I swung open his door and there he was, rocking out with his iPod, headphones...
Web Coolness: Cheerleaders for science, iPhones for photography, and green labels for TVs
Here are some things we've liked reading around the web this week. We hope you will too.Mashable has a very cool piece on 10 tips for taking perfect iPhone pictures, each from professional photographers. On Time, the 50 Best Inventions of 2010. Number one is no...
Borders Books and National Teachers Registry – Making classroom wishes come true
Every year I've done my best to purchase items that are on our teachers' classroom wish list that are sent home in the kids' folders or in the class newsletter. But it's hard to know what's already been purchased and if there are any other items that they might want...
A math app for ninjas
After hours of coaxing without success, I gave up begging my 7 year-old sons to practice math drills on a worksheet and I headed to my iPad. I knew there must be a math app that played like a video game to keep him engaged. And wouldn't you know it, I found it. Math...
Forget candy canes, wrap your holiday gifts in binary code
These days, trying to find the perfect politically correct design for holiday gift wrap can be overwhelming. Not every one of my friends and family members enjoy every symbol of every holiday. The Think Geek website helped me find a truly agnostic paper however. The...