Hey, Alexa! Where’s Santa? And other festive Echo skills for the holiday.

by Kate Etue | Best Apps

Just in time for Christmas, we’ve found 7 festive Echo skills that make the holidays just a little more fun, for your kids and for you too. And hey, if you don’t have an Amazon Echo just yet, this might be reason to ask Santa for one. Hey, maybe...

Amazon FreeTime Unlimited + Audible are about to make your holiday travel so much happier!

by Kristen Chase | Uncategorized

If you’re fans of Amazon FreeTime Unlimited, you’ll be thrilled to hear they just added over 1,000 Audible books for kids into the mix, with tons of popular titles ready for listening. Related: Here’s what you need to know about the Amazon Echo Dot...

Here’s what you need to know about the Google Home Hub

by Kristen Chase | Life and Home

If you were on Twitter yesterday, you couldn’t miss the buzz about the new Google Home Hub, which is Google’s new be-all gadget that everyone can’t stop talking about. And for good reason. This new device could be a game changer, particularly for...

What parents need to know about the new Amazon Teen shopping program

by Kate Etue | Websites We Love

Perhaps you’ve heard about the Amazon Teen shopping program, in which parents can set up an Amazon login for your teens to shop on their own. It includes lots of safeguards to make sure kids don’t spend more than you want them to, but is it a good idea? Or...

2 awesome free reading resources that kids will love

by Kristen Chase | Best Apps

A little over two years ago, we featured Amazon Rapids, a reading app full of stories for kids that read like text messages. Talk about meeting kids where they are, right? Well, just yesterday, Amazon Rapids went from a free app + monthly subscription, to totally 100%...

Get your Amazon Prime Day tech deals right here: The best of the best, with updates!

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

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 tech deals as we find...

Yes, it’s true. Amazon’s Alexa has been recording your conversations.

by Kate Etue | Tips and Tricks

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 breakdown on Alexa’s...

Have a little bit of Star Wars Day fun, courtesy of your Amazon Echo.

by Kristen Chase | Life and Home

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 Dot, Alexa now has a bunch...

These tech gadgets are totally worth the investment.

by Kristen Chase | Life and Home

Over the years, we’ve tried myriad tech gadgets here over on Cool Mom Tech, and there are a good handful (maybe two) that we continue to use over and over again because they make our lives a whole lot easier. And cooler. Or at least we think so. If you’re...

Amazon’s Echo Dot for Kids is here. But there will be no “Alexa, buy me a pony.”

by Liz Gumbinner | Kids, Life and Home, Tech Toys

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 exclusively at Amazon....