Readeez, now for your mobile viewing pleasure
If you're not familiar with Readeez, and you have a child who's starting to read, then you're in for a treat. This series of adorably-designed videos are paired with songs, poems and written words to help kids associate letters with their accompanying sounds. And...
Best Buy Wish List Video – Post Holiday Shopping Tips
If you were lucky enough to score a Best Buy gift card from Santa, or just want to get a jump start on your New Year's resolutions, our co-founder Kristen, along with a Best Buy Geek Squad agent, can help you out. Check out this video in which she reveals all the...
The Dell Inspiron duo is a tablet! It’s a netbook! It’s a tablet!
With the holiday shopping rush now over, some of you lucky enough to be on Santa's nice list may be looking to buy some new technology with those new gift cards, or take advantage of the big after-Christmas sales. For you tablet coveters, one of the most exciting new...
Piquing Our Geek: Amazon’s bad gift exchange system
This morning we read about the new bad gift exchange system patented by Amazon, and we had to ask ourselves: Best idea ever? Or the end of graciousness as we know it?CNN described it as "the nuclear option for gifts" - a kind of system that would allows you to flag...
Best Buy Wish List: Computers. Pretty, pretty computers.
Best Buy Wish List is a sponsored series in which we feature the things we're coveting at Best Buy--and then give away gift cards so you can buy them yourself. Whee!Computers are pretty important gadgets to us bloggers. Imagine that. It's a sickness really--our...
With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of LED-backlit pixels
If you woke up to snowmageddon this morning like we did (or more like a typical winter snowfall with a new 24 hour news cycle-friendly, alarmist name), your kids are probably begging you to get out there with them as soon as humanly possible. If they haven't...
Reduce, reuse, resell your old cell phones with ReCellular
I have always been a gadget girl. When I got my Motorola Razr more than a decade ago, the "it" phone of the early 2000s mind you, I thought I was pretty hot stuff. But as with everything else, technology advances, and the once cutting-edge Razr is now the cell phone...
Web Coolness: Holiday travel tips, charitable giving, and getting organized
Here are some things we've liked reading around the web this week. We hope you will too. Our Co-Founder Liz Gumbinner offers up car travel tips for families on the CBS Early Show including a smart story app and some great kids CDs for download. Looking for a last...
Cool new cases for your cool new iPad and iPhone
If the holidays were super-good to you and you're a proud new owner of an iPad or iPhone, chances are that you're probably looking for a sleek new case to protect your sacred new tech toy. Well look no further--we've found a few gorgeous ones, and the brand just may...
Merry Christmas to you!
From Liz, Kristen, Beth, Christina, and everyone at Cool Mom Tech, we wish you a peaceful, happy, wonderful day, filled with good family, good food, and hopefully not too many plastic clamshell packs to have to pry open. And thanks to all of you for helping to make...
Board games go 2.0 with Winter Land
Before the kids go to bed and Santa's elves get busy wrapping gifts, we spend Christmas Eve drinking egg nog, playing games, and watching movies with the kids. But now that we have the iPad, we'll probably add a round or two of a digital board game into the mix. The...
Best Buy Wish List: Home Theater, yeah!
Best Buy Wish List is a sponsored series in which we feature the things we're coveting at Best Buy--and then give away gift cards so you can buy them yourself. Whee!With six kids between us, our movie theater is our home television. And really, with all the money...
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Piquing Our Geek: Custom Headphones for Lyric Freaks
I know people that I can describe as a man or woman of their word, but that's being taken to a whole new level when words become a style of personalization for gadgets. Â A pair of The Street Headphones are a holy, major, unabashed splurge at $1,100, but what you're...
Best Buy Wish List Video – Last Minute Shopping Tips
Here's the next fun installment as part of our Best Buy Wish List video series featuring our co-founder Kristen. This time she's getting a few last minute shopping tips from a friendly Blue Shirt who's got the inside scoop on things like the last possible moment you...
Turn the teaching around and get your parents up-to-speed
In addition to being a mom, wife, career woman, sister, daughter, and more lately, I've found myself serving as tech support for the litany of tech-related questions my parents have been asking me. Of all the mini projects I've helped them out with, I think setting up...
Best Buy Wish List: Mobile Accessories
Best Buy Wish List is a sponsored series in which we feature the things we're coveting at Best Buy--and then give away gift cards so you can buy them yourself. Whee!Of course one of the big holiday gifts these days is a smart phone, especially with all the cool...
No glove, no love
It's freezing outside, and you want to use your Smartphone to tweet about how incredibly freezing it is outside, but to do that you'd need to remove your warm gloves. Drat. If only there were a way to keep your hands warm and use a touch screen device. Ta da!! Check...
Would you pay to cheat on Angry Birds?
I admit that I've been completely sucked into the Angry Birds craze, as has my entire family. So much s, that my kids know exactly what level we're stuck on.Level 16 on Angry Birds Seasons, if you're curious. So I have to admit that my interest was piqued when I...
Dads Dig This – BeSpeak iPhone app
Our next Dads Dig This guest blogger is David Wescott, a Durham, NC-based dad who writes about public relations, science communication, and politics at It's Not a Lecture. Â I admit that most of the time you can find me in worn jeans and something with a Red Sox logo,...
And a very BetaMaXmas to you too
There was once a magical time. A time when children waited in breathless anticipation for their favorite Christmas Special to play on TV. There was no DVR or Video On Demand; no rewinding or fast-forwarding; no YouTube; no bathroom breaks. You had only one shot to...
Best Buy Wish List: eReaders and Tablets (Oooooh!)
Best Buy Wish List is a sponsored series in which we feature the things we're coveting at Best Buy--and then give away gift cards so you can buy them yourself. Whee!If you're like us, then you've got a tablet or e-readers high on your holiday wish list (hear that,...
A little Christmas present for your ears: New family-friendly holiday tunes ready for download
It's Christmas week, and if you are like me, the ears could use a break from the same old Christmas songs that have been blasting across radio stations and throughout department store PA systems since the day after Halloween. Â Let's just say that if I hear Dominick...
Best Buy Wish List: 2010 Holiday Gift Guide
We're having such a great time working with Best Buy here on Cool Mom Tech over the last week. (You have been entering our gift card giveaways, right?) In fact, a few days ago, our co-founder Kristen headed out to her local Best Buy to chat with one of their helpful...
Web Coolness: iPhone book apps for kids, password help, and XBox preparedness
Here are some things we've liked reading around the web this week. We hope you will too. Getting a new gaming system for the holidays? PopSci has tips on setting up your living room for XBox with Kinect. (Via Unplgged)To keep the kids busy on those last minute holiday...