by Liz Gumbinner | Babies, Back to School Tech, Kids
We’ve spent the past several years evaluating the best headphones for students for remote learning, and while kids are back in school, one of the residual effects has been more online learning (and social!) opportunities. Whether kids are doing virtual live...
by Liz Gumbinner | Father's Day Gifts, Fitness + Health, Games + Gaming, Gear + Hardware
Father’s Day is coming up and while we always have loads of last-minute Father’s Day gift ideas for you over on Cool Mom Picks, I was poking around to find some deals for you late shoppers. Turns out, there are some fantastic tech gifts for dads on sale...
by Liz Gumbinner | Mother's Day Gifts
As much as we love flowers and chocolate for Mother’s Day (seriously, bring it on) we’d never say no to an awesome Mother’s Day tech gift. Especially one that recognizes we are basically insanely busy, on-the-go multi-taskers who manage our entire...
by Christina Refford | Fitness + Health
I love listening to music, audiobooks or podcasts (like Spawned of course!) when I’m outside. But there are so many times it’s not really safe for us to completely tune out our surroundings, like when I’m running alone at 6 AM, or should I be pushing...
by Liz Gumbinner | Entertainment, Holiday Tech Gifts, Life and Home
If you’ve ever said, “Alexa, play When the Party’s Over” then you’ll be thrilled that Amazon has just announced the launch of the Billie Eilish special edition Amazon Echo Studio and it’s pretty darn cool if you’re a...
by Liz Gumbinner | Uncategorized
Last Amazon Prime Day, my partner bought an outstanding pair of Sony Noise Cancelling headphones, which are by many accounts the best best noise-cancelling headphones of 2021. He has not stopped raving about them for an entire year, and for an avowed tech geek and...
by Caroline Siegrist | Kids
My son’s just at the age he can start listening to stories on his own, but I’m not in a hurry to hand over my iPhone to keep him entertained. So I was intrigued to read about Toniebox, a cool screen-free content box for little kids. The Toniebox works with...
by Kristen Chase | Gear + Hardware
Did we mention that we have the coolest readers? Eric (aka EricSketch on Twitter) has been reading our site for quite some time now, so when we spotted this Baby Yoda Bluetooth speaker in his Twitter feed we were like “HOLY MANDALORIAN!” Let’s just...
by Kristen Chase | Uncategorized
We’ve already told you how dirty your phone probably is right now. So now, we’re going to gross you out a little more by telling you that your AirPods are probably pretty dirty too. If you’re on a bit of a disinfecting tear, we suggest adding your...
by Kristen Chase | Uncategorized
As you might have heard on our recent Spawned podcast, Valentine’s Day after kids (at least for us, anyway), has become quite a family affair. Whether it’s lunchbox notes and a special school lunch, little gifts when they wake up, or a family movie (or...