Alexa

It's Amazon Prime Day , a shopping extravaganza for Prime members that starts today at 3 p.m. EST/12 p.m. PST and runs a full 36 hours this year. So we're updating all day (and night and day) with our favorite of the Amazon Prime Day tec…

So, we were all a little freaked out about the story that an Amazon Echo had recorded a private conversation in a user's home, then sent that conversation to someone else. Because, oof. Beyond embarrassing, this is a major privacy breakd…

If watching your favorite Star Wars movies on loop isn't a big enough celebration for your May the 4th, you can tap into your Amazon Echo for a little extra fun. Related: Star Wars slime recipes. Yes, they exist. According to the Daily D…

I've been a longtime Fitbit fan, since they launched their first activity tracker many moons ago, so it's not surprise my interest was very piqued when I saw the new Fitbit Versa and did an "is that the new Apple Watch " double take. I d…

The Echo Dot has been one of Amazon's most popular speakers, so it's no surprise that they saw an opportunity to bring all the joy and magic and Orwellian fun of Alexa to kids in the form of the new Echo Dot Kids Edition available exclus…

If you're like me, you scramble to text your partner the items you need as you think of them, which makes for a pretty disorganized shopping list. But since discovering the AnyList app in our Recipe Rescue Facebook group , my grocery sho…

We've shared all sorts of ways the Amazon Echo can help make your life as a busy parent a whole lot easier, but one we didn't include was how you can use it to make your grocery list. Turns out, with a simple app download, you can use Al…

Since CES 2018 , we've been featuring our favorite tech picks for parents and I'd be remiss if I didn't share the incredible new high-tech baby monitors that I got a chance to check out. While there are certainly a lot more that we'll be…

At my house, we use our Amazon Echo every single day. I ask Alexa to place orders, find the proper cooking temperature of pork, or play my favorite playlist, just to name a few. So with the holidays here, I thought it would be fun to sha…

This is a sponsored message from Wemo Mini It's amazing how technology can simplify the lives of parents, especially with one of the busiest times of year upon us. And that's exactly the case with the Wemo Mini , an affordable little plu…

Maybe you’re still using a sweet and simple night light that, well… lights up. Let me tell you: you’re missing out.

In case you didn't hear yet, it's Prime Day, the day when Amazon deals abound, particularly for those of you shopping for tech gadgets. As you might have guessed, there are way too many deals for us to round them up right here, but we di…

Okay, okay so the new HomePod is not technically the Amazon Echo (aka Alexa), but well, it pretty much is, just shaped more like a marshmallow in Apple's signature black and white. That's not to say we're all not going to want it when it…

When it comes to smart phone addiction , we've done our own experiments with putting away our phones around our kids here at Cool Mom Tech. We've even used various techniques to manage screen time for our own kids and tweens. That's why …

It's amazing how far home tech design has come, even since we started this site six years ago. What once may have looked sleek and amazing -- a baby monitor, a humidifier, even a lawnmower -- now looks clunky and dated compared to what's…

Well, well, Amazon's Echo (aka Alexa) is now your own personal Anna Wintour thanks to the newly launched Echo Look . Think Alexa, now with eyeballs and a fashion sense. With this new gadget, you can actually take full-length photos of yo…