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The important new iOS 11 feature that might keep you and your family a whole lot safer in the car

I took the plunge this weekend, and upgraded my iPhone to iOS 11. There are no shortage of awesome new features, but the one that caught my attention almost immediately was Do Not Disturb While Driving. This feature will automatically mute your notifications while you...

How one tiny device is keeping families a whole lot safer on the road | Sponsored Message

by Cool Mom Staff | Travel Essentials

This is a sponsored message from Bouncie With parents — and teens — spending so much time on the road, road safety is always a top concern. for families. That’s why you need to check out Bouncie, a smart little device that easily plugs into your car...

Web Coolness: Big Apple news, no more Wii U?, and how to save your phone’s battery life

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them too. Everything you need to know about all the new Apple gadgets coming soon. Do you close apps to save your phone’s battery life? You might want to stop that right now. This...

Waze Planned Drives: Big news for anyone who spends any time in the car at all, ever.

by Jeana | Travel Apps

If you haven’t yet heard about the brand new feature from the Waze app called Waze Planned Drives, then you might be as excited as I am. Especially if, like me, if you’re the kind of person who had kids, then went from being always early, to the one...

Web Coolness: Apple’s Back to School deal, educational YouTube channels for kids, and what’s your Facebook unfriending policy?

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. We’re curious about this safety device you wear on your wrist. What do you think? If you’re in the market for a new computer, don’t...

4 of the best free apps to help keep you safe on the road during summer road trips

by Nicole Blades | Travel Apps

With an estimated 37 million Americans hitting the road on the Memorial Day holiday alone, it’s going to be the biggest travel weekend in a decade. Clearly, after enduring a long, miserable winter, folks are super hyped for the (unofficial) start summer....

Web Coolness: Minecraft Easter eggs, Periscope, and big Facebook changes. Again.

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are a few tech links we’ve enjoyed this week. We hope you like them too! Easter is just over a week away. Who’s making these Minecraft Easter eggs? We love all the new iPhone 6 ads featuring actual user photos, but these parody Apple ads are...

#X – a simple way to prevent teen texting and driving

by Liz Gumbinner | Family Safety Apps

We’ve talked a lot about solutions to the texting and driving issue, from apps to hands-free devices you install in your car. And now ATT is doing more on the third anniversary of their popular It Can Wait campaign, by asking for more lifetime pledges, and...

Automatic Driving Assistant: The Jetson’s era car accessory that can keep you safer and smarter on the road.

by Jeana | Travel Essentials

With the amount of time I spend in my car driving kids to their various activities, a driving assistant sounds awfully nice. While technology hasn’t yet come up with a virtual driver to take over carpooling responsibilities, a system like the Automatic Driving...

Stopping texting and driving with a simple pledge: “It can wait.”

by Jeana | Causes and General Do-Gooding

Those AT&T commercials that feature kids who have suffered from car accidents as a result of texting while driving literally bring me to tears. I know I’m not alone. To think that one single split second or word in this case can change everything is just too...

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