Web Coolness: A hot new Snapchat filter, the must-have app for new parents, and more
Here are some of our favorite links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them too. The The ultimate Airbnb for video game lovers. You’ve got to see all these photos! We’re having way too much fun with this new Snapchat filter. A must-have app...
Web Coolness: A smart jump rope, a new Toca Boca app, and free books for your Kindle
Here are some of our favorite tech links from the web this week. We hope you enjoy them too. For all you bike lovers, meet handleband. Netflix might pay you to travel and take Instagram photos. A smart jump rope. Cool! We spy a few tech gifts in the new Ultimate...
Web Coolness: How to write the perfect email, Amazon bans hoverboards, and mousejacking.
Here are some of our favorite tech links from this week. Hope you enjoy them too! This cool mom turned an old playroom into a super rad NES game room for her kids. How to write the perfect email. Or at least, one that will have the best chance of getting read. (via...
Web Coolness: Apple’s message to customers, how teens are using messaging apps, and Monopoly goes cashless
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them too. Easy, clever ways to clean-up, store, and display Legos. Sock over the vacuum hose?! On creating a computer voice that people will actually like. (Kristen says, Why...
Organization help: Decluttr app gives you cash for unwanted CDs, DVDs, and games. But is it worth it?
Since starting to Konmari, or “tidy,” my home almost a year ago, I’ve found myself avoiding certain categories of stuff left to purge, like the four large bins of CDs we’ve had stored in our basement since switching all our music over to...
How to get started on Minecraft PE: One newbie parent’s intro into the square world
Of course I’ve heard about Minecraft. How could I not? The crazy best-selling, square-loving video game is practically everywhere and has been for years now. I also knew the super skinny basics on Minecraft: It’s all about virtual, 3-D worlds engineered by...
Two fun, creative, and (mostly) free apps for kids to keep them engaged when they’re stuck indoors.
If you’re tearing through the list of snow day activities to keep the kids occupied when you’re stuck indoors, allow us help you with two beautifully designed, really fun new apps we’ve discovered from Seedling. As in, the same company whose...
Our 11 coolest new tech toys of 2015: Editors best of the year
Okay, so this is the post in our editors’ top picks of the year series we know a lot of our readers have been waiting for: The coolest tech toys of 2015. There are so many amazing trends we’re seeing here: Coding is becoming more accessible to even...
5 great STEM toys for kids with a math focus. Because despite what you may remember, math is now fun.
As we approach the final week of Christmas shopping, I plan spend a few minutes to make sure that I’m buying toys and games that will feed my kids’ brains as much as their need for play. And while “math toys” has never appeared on any of my...NEW: The podcast that helps you be a savvier digital parent in under 15 minutes a week
Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
We started Cool Mom Tech in 2010 to help make our increasingly digital lives easier, more organized, more meaningful, and more fun, however old your kids may be.
We love that it's grown to become the go-to source for millions of parents who want commonsense info about tech delivered with a smile.
We even have the privilege of sharing our tips + tricks with The TODAY Show, CNN, HLN, GMA, Nightline, newspapers and magazines around the country, and our favorite -- regular parents who stop us at PTA meetings and ask us how old kids need to be to get a smartphone, and whether they really need to panic about Snapchat.
(Answer: It's complicated.)
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