The 2016 Doodle 4 Google student contest winners and our favorite runners-up
We always love seeing the annual winners of the Doodle 4 Google contest, and this year’s huge congrats go out to Akilah Johnson, a super talented Washington DC tenth grader who answered the challenge question, “What makes me…me” with a...
75 year later, View-Master enters the world of Virtual Reality. But was it worth the wait?
When I heard that View-Master had updated and gone full Virtual Reality, I was intrigued. Had the toy I’d grown up peering through to see tiny photos of animals in the wild really gone high-tech? All for under $30 — or even under $25 on sale at Amazon?...
Sound the alarms! The new game-changing Google Photos app is pure fire.
I am a longtime, shameless, all-things-Apple fan. But that doesn’t mean I don’t tip my hat frequently to cool, non-iOS products. And, when it comes to this new Google Photos app? I’m basically standing up and doing a slow-clap, because the app is...
Calendar apps for a tech house divided? Reader Q&A
We are a house divided. My husband is an Android user (but I love him anyway), and I am an iPhone user. We need a calendar app that works with both, allows for the importing of Google calendar an iCal and automatically refreshes it. Is this a possibility?...
Finally, the Google Calendar app for iPhone is here!
As a diehard Google calendar user and an iPhone lover, I’ve tried out tons of iPhone calendar apps over the years, none of which were actually made by Google. Until now! Once you download the free Google Calendar app for iPhone, you’ll login with your...
STEM education: 7 awesome ways to get girls excited, from apps to clubs to cool websites
I feel pretty lucky to have a couple of daughters who dig STEM — that’s science, technology, engineering and math, in case you’ve seen the acronym floating around. While there are so many exciting developments in the last few years designed to get...
5 of our favorite tech Pinterest pins
It’s Friday, which means our round-up of the coolest tech Pinterest pins from this week. Follow us on Pinterest for lots more just like these. 1. Fall break trips planned? You’ll want to check out these 13 brilliant tech travel hacks. 2....
Geography fans will love playing SmartyPins with Google Maps. That is, if you can handle it…
The increasing essentialness that is Google Maps is fairly well known by now, so it’s no surprise that as parents, we’re loving their latest project — a geography trivia game called SmartyPins that will take you around the world. Each game starts you...
Google and Code School get more women coding with free classes. Oh yeah.
As women in tech, we’re big believers that girls can and should succeed in any field they want to go into, including sciences and technology. That’s why sought out so many amazing STEM toys for girls over the years, why we’ve cheered for...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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