What’s the temperature? Hey, I know!
I have a confession: I have a habit “shopping” for weather reports–I tend to click around the various networks and web channels until I find the one I like. No rain, high of 72? I’ll take that one! But now there’s a device that can keep...
Open a book and turn on the lights
As my husband and our electric bill will tell you, I love light. I’m constantly searching for more ways to bring sunshine/lamps/candles into our home (the last leading to numerous fire alarm activations–oops). The minute I saw this cool new Lumio LED light...
Piquing Our Geek: The 3Doodler
With a crew of budding artists in my home, I’ve often thought about investing in a 3D printer so I could turn their drawings into sculptures. But now with these new amazing gadget, doodles can become a piece of art all at the same time. Meet the 3Doodler, a...
Piquing Our Geek: The Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner
While I was cleaning out my mom’s house this summer, I found a boatload of old 35mm film negatives and other than send them to a service that develops old photos, I had absolutely no idea what to do with them. Well, with this campaign on Kickstarter (update: and...
Piquing Our Geek: 1 Second Everyday creates a priceless recording of your life
Recently, I wrote about Animoto’s Best of 2012 Facebook video feature allowing you to create a montage of major highlights in 2012. A cool way to look back on big moments, but what if there were a way to compile all the small moments that make up life and put it...
Piquing our Geek – A safe cell phone for kids. For real.
When I think of safe cell phones for kids, I think of two things. The first is safety from strangers or other people; the second is safety from cell phone radiation. And now there’s a cell phone in the works that’s going to solve both issues beautifully....
Piquing Our Geek: Turn your iPhone photos into Polaroids. Remember those?
I still fondly remember my Polaroid camera. Like so many photo buffs, I was devastated when Polaroid went the way of the Betamax. Well, with this new gadget, you will get almost the same effect with your very 21st century iPhone. And the story is pretty...
Kid-friendly iPad cases? Reader Q+A
We’re upgrading to the new iPad and thinking about passing along our second-generation iPad to our kids. Do you have any suggestions for kid-friendly cases? -Krissy Hi Krissy, lucky you for getting a new iPad! Your kids are probably already foaming at the mouth...
Instacube makes Instagram viewing even bigger and better
The photos I see on Instagram are many things: evocative, funny, sweet, and sometimes just plain cool. But they are also really small. Which is why I’m digging a successful Kickstarter campaign that will make it so easy to get to enjoy those Instagram photos on...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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