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The breast pump gets a thoroughly modern makeover in the discreet new Elvie pump

by Caroline Siegrist | Baby Tech, Fitness + Health

As a mom who’s recently breastfed a child, I was pumped (heh) to hear about some new innovations arriving in the form of the Elvie breast pump. It comes from the makers of the revolutionary Elvie Kegel trainer (from all of us who’ve had babies, thank you...

Cyborg, wormhole, exterminate…and 97 other first words little geeks need to know.

by Kate Etue | Geeky Baby Gifts

Geek parent alert: we’ve found the must-have language acquisition book for your offspring. With 100 First Words for Little Geeks, you can skip over the boring words like car and tree, and focus instead on the important additions to your child’s vocabulary....

High tech baby gifts: 4 of the best splurges for your very favorite parents-to-be

by Liz Gumbinner | Around the House, Baby Tech, Geeky Baby Gifts

If you’re shopping for a baby gift and want to go in on The Big Gift with a group — or maybe all on your own, generous soul, maybe consider high-tech baby gifts. Talking to you, best friends from college, generous boss, first-time aunt-to-be, and amazing...

6 smart night lights that go way beyond our smart night light expectations.

by Ellyn Exley Dvorkin | Baby Tech, Smart Appliances

Technology is changing and our night lights are changing, too. If you haven’t seen everything that they can do, let me tell you: you’re missing out. They’ve come a long way, baby. These days, night lights double as baby monitors and speakers, even smoke...

Because it’s a new baby. Get it?

by Kristen Chase | Geeky Baby Gifts

What can we say? We’re suckers for geeky baby onesies, especially when they involve keyboard commands, which is why we had to share this new baby onesie from the folks at TwelveSouth. Command N. Get it? Of course you did. Related: 5 of the cutest geeky baby...

9 cool Instagram photo gifts for the Instagram-loving mom. Isn’t that all of us?

by Caroline Siegrist | Mother's Day Gifts, Photo Gifts

As a new mom, I’d adore a Mother’s Day gift that takes my favorite Instagram shots and transforms them into an awesome keepsake so that I don’t have to. After all, I can hardly find time to back up the several billion pictures I’ve taken of my...

10 cool Mother’s Day tech gifts for your favorite mobile mom.

by Liz Gumbinner | Mother's Day Gifts

As much as we love flowers and chocolate for Mother’s Day (seriously, bring it on) we’d never say no to a an awesome Mother’s Day tech gift. Especially one that recognizes we are basically insane on-the-go multi-taskers who manage our entire lives...

This high-tech baby cot from Ford makes it feel like you’re driving your baby around at night.

by Kristen Chase | Baby Tech, Geeky Baby Gifts

Looks like Ford took a cue from all parents everywhere who have been stuck driving their baby around in their car to get them to fall asleep, and built a baby cot that actually mimics that exact experience. (Well, for the baby that is. Thankfully). The Max Motor...

STEM swaddlers help future scientists know their barium from their boron

by Liz Gumbinner | Geeky Baby Gifts

For a while, geek has been the new chic, and so I hardly know a new mom or dad who wouldn’t totally love this periodic table baby swaddler for their future genius. Designed by toddler mom Lynne Burton to keep herself from going crazy (we feel ya, Kim), the...

Web Coolness: Uplifting news, a Netflix phishing scam, and how kids are making money selling slime

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Loving these science prints by John W. Golden on Etsy (affiliate) Watching movies and TV shows across all your Apple devices just got a whole lot easier. A cool way to...

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