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Piquing our Geek: Current Cost EnviR helps control home energy usage

As a mom with 3 kids (and a whole lot of technology), I am always looking for ways to tame my skyrocketing home utility bills. So I was interested when I saw that Current Cost added a new monitor to their line-up which not only allows people to identify energy usage...

5 CES tech discoveries just for moms

by Beth | Smart Appliances

We love hearing that more and more, tech companies are reaching out to moms and understanding that we’re fans of technology too. And I’m happy to report there was plenty of evidence of it last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Last week I...

The Samsung Galaxy Tablet. AKA yes, there’s another tablet besides the iPad.

by Cool Mom Staff | iPads + Tablets

With everyone having iPad fever (myself included), I’ve been anxious to check out competition–the new Samsung Galaxy Tablet, which is the first android tablet on the market across all four phone carriers. I agree with most of the reviews that I’ve...

Hone your techorating sense in the New Year with tips from Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan

by Jeana | Art + Decor

With the influx of devices that we all seem to be accumulating, our homes have started to be overrun with wires, cords, chargers and the like. Not a good problem to have when you’ve got kids running around. As such, design guru to all of us, Maxwell...

Best Buy Wish List: Home Theater, yeah!

by Cool Mom Staff | Holiday Tech Gifts

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...

A little Christmas present for your ears: New family-friendly holiday tunes ready for download

by Christina Refford | Kids Music

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. Let’s just say that if I...

Web Coolness: iPhone book apps for kids, password help, and XBox preparedness

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

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...

Best Buy Wish List: Gaming (whoo!)

by Cool Mom Staff | Holiday Tech Gifts

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! It’s no secret that we have a thing for gaming around here. Must be all those years...

The Neato robotic vacuum sucks. In a good way.

by Christina Refford | Around the House

For the past two Christmases, my mother has given me vacuums, a gift I try not to take as judgment on the state of my house. And while the Dyson was–and still is–great, my little robotic Roomba continues to make me positively giddy as it whirls around my...

MobiGo by VTech gets the skeptical mom vote

by Cool Mom Staff | Tech Toys and Random Fun

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...

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Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz

Kristen Chase + Liz Gumbinner of Cool Mom Picks

We started Cool Mom Tech in 2010 to help make our increasingly digital lives easier, more organized, more meaningful, and more fun, however old your kids may be.

We love that it's grown to become the go-to source for millions of parents who want commonsense info about tech delivered with a smile.

We even have the privilege of sharing our tips + tricks with The TODAY Show, CNN, HLN, GMA, Nightline, newspapers and magazines around the country, and our favorite -- regular parents who stop us at PTA meetings and ask us how old kids need to be to get a smartphone, and whether they really need to panic about Snapchat.

(Answer: It's complicated.)

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