by Liz Gumbinner | Life and Home
With 8 bit making a comeback (thanks, Minecraft) and pixels starting to appear everywhere as a “new” art technique, it’s not surprising to see them make their way from our desktops to our countertops and beyond. I’m seeing them on all sorts of...
by Christina Refford | Life and Home
While regular people are dreaming of walking on Mars’ red surface, you can be dreaming about strolling on Kepler-186f’s red grass or pretending you’re Luke Skywalker on the real-life version of Tatooine with one of three printable vintage...
by Kate Etue | Life and Home
One of my New Year’s resolutions this year is to get my kids their own homework spaces so that I’m not asking them to clean their notebooks and backpacks off the kitchen table while I’m in the final stages of dinner prep each night. In my search for...
by Liz Gumbinner | Gear + Hardware
This week at the International CES, I was honored to sit down with Andrea Smith of MommyTech TV (link coming soon!) and share some of my favorite products for families that I had seen at the show early on. I knew exactly what I wanted my first pick to be: The...
by Kristen Chase | Life and Home
Sometimes it feels like there aren’t enough strong heroes for girls in TV and movies for my own daughters to look up to, which is why I love how artist Scott Park has illustrated 80 phenomenal female heroes and put them into in his spectacular Hall of Heroes...
by Liz Gumbinner | Life and Home
There are quite a few virtual decorating online resources that allow you to place your virtual furniture in your virtual home to get a sense of what it will look like. We’ve liked SketchUp, NousDecor, and even the awesome augmented reality decorating app from...
by Liz Gumbinner | Travel
As my kids get older, we are just aging out of the night light market. But sometimes in a new place, like a hotel room or a cousin’s guest room this holiday, it can help. So I started poking around and came across this awesome night light switch at Kikkerland,...
by Liz Gumbinner | Life and Home
Seeing as how our friends at Think Geek are having a big sale right now, I was poking around for what must-have (I use that term loosely) I’ll come across, and wouldn’t you know it? I found a contender in this set of stackable Star Wars mugs that made me...
by Liz Gumbinner | Life and Home
If you’re looking for a super cool geek gift, well, we tend to have plenty around here. And now I’ve found one more, with the incredibly creative vintage patent art from RetroFoto on Etsy. The vintage camera patent drawings are just such an awesome thing...