The coolest gadgets and games for family fun: Editors Best Tech of 2012
This was probably one of the biggest years for kids’ gadgets, but we definitely had our top favorites, and ones that we’d want in our own kids’ hands. Kristen Nabi 2 With so many kids’ tablets on the markets, I’m going to have to pick...
Fun family activities for the holiday season thanks to tech. Yes tech!
We’re thrilled to be working with our newest sponsor, Plantronics, whose highly rated Bluetooth Headset, the Voyager Legend, helps conversations come together. Plus we get to give one away! With the holiday season officially here, we all feel so lucky to be...
DoubleScoop connects kids and grandparents. (One downside: it has nothing to do with ice cream.)
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about many different ways to connect kids with their grandparents. While I covered the big ones like Skype, Facetime, Google+ and others, I just discovered a new one that is solely designed for connecting your kids with grandma and grandpa,...
Editors Best Tech of 2011: The coolest family-friendly video games
For the last few years on Cool Mom Picks, we’ve ended the year with our Editors’ Picks for best of the year. We’re excited to do the same on Cool Mom Tech this year, starting with the best video games that the whole family will love. ABBA You Can...
8 hot new Kinect games for family fun with younger kids
By now, the Wii, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3 family competitions have become a big part of holiday time rituals. If not, it totally should be. Do you know the photo opps you can grab of one precocious 4 year-old making a go of an Abba Dance game? If you’ve got...
ABBA You Can Dance! And you totally will, despite yourself.
I’d hardly consider myself a video gamer, but give me a dance game and you’ll have to rip that Wii remote out of my hand. So when I discovered that the makers of my all-time favorite game Just Dance released a new one dedicated to the best band ever well,...
Itinerus: Group travel without the hassle
The idea of trips with the girlfriends or big family vacations sound amazing until you actually have to plan and organize them. Then, let’s just say the magic disappears pretty quickly. That’s why I’m super excited about a new site that is aiming to...
The Proust Questionnaire – Now for your own family
“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” One of my favorite quotes by Marcel Proust. So the name Proust seems appropriate for a new website designed to help people share their stories with family and close friends...
Operation: Star Wars
Operation, Shmoperation. Forget that old naked guy and his lame Charlie Horse; I’ve found a version that’s much, much cooler for the entire family. Because it’s R2D2 Yes, I’m one of those people for whom anything can be improved with the...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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