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12 must-have gadgets to get you through a winter of quarantining

Colder weather is starting to settle in for many of us, and we’re kind of staring bleakly into a winter quarantining. I’m not thrilled about the idea, but I’m trying to prepare myself and my family so that we’ll get through this season...

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

by Cool Mom Staff | Sales, Whoo!

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...

Carmen Sandiego meets Cooking Mama, in this cool cooking game for kids

by Kate Etue | Fun Apps for Kids

News flash: our kids love video games. But they also love to help cook in the kitchen. So when we saw that the new Issa’s Edible Adventures app teaches them to cook virtually and IRL, we knew we had to try it out. It’s part Carmen Sandiego, traveling the...

4 helpful meal planning apps for families that really work.

by Kate Etue | Productivity Apps

One of my biggest new year’s resolutions is to stay organized, and getting my meals planned is key. Because the hardest part of cooking for me — other than the kids pulling on my shirt or asking me to help them put together their 1,487-piece LEGO set right...

The ultimate indoor/outdoor grill for people who thought they could never have one. Tech to the rescue!

by Jeana | Kitchen Tech

Of course tech innovations are making their way to the traditional BBQ now too, and if you don’t have the space for an outdoor grill, I’ve found a solution in the Kenyon SilKEN Grill which keeps your grilling game on all year round. This portable...

Yummly Recipes: Our cool free app of the week

by Christina Refford | Lifestyle Apps

I have fallen into a dinner rut, relying on a few tried-and-true recipes that I can whip up before the kids get too peckish at the end of a busy day. But now that I’ve download the free and gorgeously designed Yummly app, which is available free for iOS,...

The most technologically advanced blender we’ve ever seen, thanks to Panasonic. (Yes, Panasonic!)

by Liz Gumbinner | Kitchen Tech

I recently sat through a cooking demo press event at Panasonic HQ for the Panasonic High-Power ZX-1800 Blender, and was admittedly skeptical. (Hi, that’s me with my arms folded across my chest.) First of all, I do not tend to think of Panasonic as makers...

Web Coolness: It’s Apple’s Big Day! Apple Watch, HBO Now, and the gold MacBook, oh my!

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web we’ve enjoyed this week. We hope you like them too. It’s a big day for Apple today. You can pre-order the Apple Watch today, though we’re digging this DIY Apple II watch (above), complete...

10 of the best organizational apps for parents: Back to School Tech Guide 2014

by Nicole Blades | Back to School Tech

There’s excitement and anxiousness in the air at back to school time, but for many parents, this time of year can also bring about a little dread. As in: Ugh. Here comes the deluge of To-Do lists and classroom paperwork and lunch-packing and scheduling and on...

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