5 of our favorite tech Pinterest pins

by Cool Mom Team | Link Roundups

Are you following our Cool Mom Tech Pinterest boards? You should be! Take a peek at all the tech coolness you might be missing. 1. How cute is this DIY earbud case? 2. This amazing app helps you ditch the annoying junk mail. So handy! 3. We’re drooling over this...

The Bigshot Camera: The coolest new digital camera for Christmas comes in pieces

by Christina Refford | Photography

The coolest new digital camera for the holidays may be one that doesn’t even work. Well, not until you put it together and learn a whole bunch about the technology behind a point-and-shoot. And I know more than a couple of kids who would think this is way more...

5 of our favorite tech Pinterest pins this week

by Cool Mom Team | Gear + Hardware, Link Roundups

Obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us! Then check out these 5 popular pins you might have missed this week. We’ve got our eye on this gorgeous smartphone wristlet from one of our favorite designers. What a cool little stocking stuffer you can make from...

Build-your-own computer kits for kids, all designed by another kid. Minds blown.

by Pilar | Tech Toys

We all know STEM is a big deal in schools these days. The combination of science, technology, engineering and math is what kids are living on a daily basis, so a 10-year-old entrepreneur named Ethan Saadia wants to encourage even more kids to really get into computer...

8 awesome geeky Halloween pumpkins that you can actually make.

by Liz Gumbinner | DIY

Halloween is made for geeks, as we’ve said before, and I think these awesome Halloween pumpkin carving ideas prove it. Yes, if you’re a professional artist with a shed-full of carving tools you can do some more complex designs, but I like these for the...

5 of our favorite techie Pinterest pins this week

by Cool Mom Team | Link Roundups

If you’re as obsessed with Pinterest as we are, make sure you’re following us. Then check out our 5 favorite pins from this week. 1. A cool app for iOS and Android that’s a dream for parents like us who take tons of smartphone photos. 2. Speaking of...

The ultimate in personalized, custom headphones

by Liz Gumbinner | DIY

And in one of the more impressive–or insane, depending on your perspective–DIY projects, may we present this very creative craft-meets-tech tutorial? On the Etsy blog this week, Swedish crafter Lova Blavarg of Sweet Paul Magazine offers a tutorial for DIY...

Using keyboard decals to refurbish your Mac keyboard. Or uh, mine.

by Liz Gumbinner | Tech Toys

Behold, my actual MacBook Pro keyboard! Most see it and think whoa–she really abuses that S, L, C, and is that an E up there? Me, I try to see the positive side: My kids are going to rock at touch typing. Suddenly I get the benefit of a product like adhesive...

Fun DIY tech project: Braided cord covers

by Kristen Chase | DIY

I’ve decided to spend a little energy styling my home office this summer, and first up, putting my excellent friendship bracelet-making skills (ha) to good use by covering a few of those unsightly cords with this cool tutorial. We’ve featured other DIY...

Building your own Lomo camera is a snap!

by Delilah S. Dawson | Photography

DIY photography just got more extreme and fun because now you can actually build your own camera. The hip kids at Lomography have piqued our geek with the Konstruktor DIY kit, which includes everything you need to build and decorate your own functional Lomography...