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geeky baby gifts

Baby's first iPhone 5

Baby's first iPhone 5

We're often asked, how old should a child be to get her first cell phone? Well in this case, we'd say newborn. What? It's not your iPhone 5. This wooden iPhone 5 baby toy from 3 Princesses Store on Etsy is the perfect holiday gift for th…

The power cord with major POW!Gear + Hardware

The power cord with major POW!

That's right, citizen: we've found a powerful power cord that can protect you from surges, outlet insufficiency, and most of all, boredom. Whether you're into comic books, Harry Potter, Zeus, or just brightening up the mundane, this Ligh…

5 techy Pinterest pins we had to shareWebsites We Love

5 techy Pinterest pins we had to share

Obsessed with Pinterest like we are? Follow us on Cool Mom Tech and check out some of our favorite pins from this week that we think are worth sharing. 1. A cool iPhone case from one of our fave diaper bag designers. Want! 2. A hilarious…

Have you hugged your floppy disk today?Random Coolness

Have you hugged your floppy disk today?

While cleaning out the office yesterday, I kept coming upon relics from my not-so-distant past, like some weird archeological dig in my house. This, children, is a floppy disk. We used it to store information on before the Cloud. And her…

Paging Dr. MarioGames + Gaming

Paging Dr. Mario

I got a huge giggle out of this print which shows just what ol' Mario would look like through an X-ray, after eating all those mushrooms of dubious origin, unmarked pills, and bizarre plants. The Dr. Mario print comes courtesy of illustr…

Baby: Not entirely perfected yetBabies

Baby: Not entirely perfected yet

I love the motto that forward-thinking tech companies seem to be using with great frequency these days: Always in beta. However even if your company is your "baby" it's not exactly your baby. Which is who really, truly is in beta. The Be…

How can you tell if a website is down? Aha!Tips and Tricks

How can you tell if a website is down? Aha!

I have been told by various people that various planets are in retrograde, which evidently explains why all of my favorite sites have been going down this week. Including Twitter. Of course without Twitter, how the heck was I going to go…

Don't know much about geometry

Don't know much about geometry

Even though geometry might have been my worst subject in school, that doesn't mean I can't get a kick out of this hilarious onesie that might just be the ultimate gift for your favorite expecting math geek. The I'm Acute Baby onesie from…

Plants vs. Zombies on your wall!Life + Home

Plants vs. Zombies on your wall!

I know I'm not the only one who has wasted way too much time playing my hand at the uber popular Plants vs. Zombies app, so I shouldn't be surprised that they are now super cool wall decals, available on sale now at Fab.com. I can't thin…

Feed me, Mommy!Babies

Feed me, Mommy!

If you're looking for a baby shower gift for the blogger, internet addict, or social media fan in your life, it looks like we've found just the thing. It's hard not to look at the RSS icon baby bib and laugh. Created by the aptly named G…

How Our Readers Are Using It:  PinterestSocial Media

How Our Readers Are Using It: Pinterest

If you follow us on Twitter, it's pretty clear from our links that we're completely addicted to Pinterest, a virtual cork board that allows you to "pin" online inspiration and share it with others. We've been using it both for Cool Mom P…

Forget Angry Birds. Try Angry bibs.Babies

Forget Angry Birds. Try Angry bibs.

Little did those Angry Birds know that those pigs would be the least of their worries. Because, as it turns out, now they have to watch out for drool and baby food too. This hilarious handmade Angry Birds bib comes from Etsy's Ai Tenshi …

Star Trek light up spoon from ThinkGeekBabies

Spoon me up, Scotty

Space: the final frontier. A mysterious place filled with giant monsters and noxious clouds of gas. Get ready to steer the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 straight into the uncharted reaches of the most terrifying place in the universe, a gaping…

HTML for Babies: Starting the web geekery early

HTML for Babies: Starting the web geekery early

I only became familiar with html a few years ago, so imagine the advantage my kids will have now that I'm reading them HTML for Babies at bedtime. Okay, so I'm joking, but it might just be one of the best geeky baby gifts ever for your f…

Mario and Luigi, the early yearsBabies

Mario and Luigi, the early years

I've seen no shortage of hilarious twin baby gifts, but if you've got a gaming geek or Nintendo lover who's got two wee ones on the way, these unique onesies definitely take the cake. Or the coin. The Super Mario Brothers twin set might …

Ceci n'est pas une video gameGames + Gaming

Ceci n'est pas une video game

As a fan of both modern art and video games, I had to laugh when I saw this geeky cool print that mashes up Magritte with, of all things, Mario. This geeky cool Ceci n'est pas une pipe print, from an original painting by Arizona artist L…

Pac-Man Ghost wall decals from BlikGames + Gaming

Pac-Man fever!

Unite, children of the 80s! Who now have our own children! For you will know exactly why I happen to be loving these new Pac-Man wall decals. Our buddies at Blik are now offering the officially licensed Pac-Man wall decals , so you know …

One way to set the baby to "sleep"Babies

One way to set the baby to "sleep"

When our first baby got to the age where she started skipping the occasional nap, I dreamed of the day there was a real button to press that would automatically turn noontime into naptime. I was, uh, a little delirious. Real nap apps may…