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Piquing our Geek: The Original Egg-Bot

by Liz Gumbinner | Tech Toys and Random Fun

You have to be pretty hard core about your Easter Eggs to invest $195 in a machine that makes them look awesome. But that’s just what the creators of the Egg-Bot were thinking when they invented this open-source robot that applies computer controlled motion to...

Piquing our Geek: The Cosmonaut is ready for take off

by Christina Refford | Cell Phone Accessories

Now that I’m about to get my hands on a shiny new iPad2 (yay!) I’ve been on the lookout for cool new accessories for my tablet, like the PadPivot that I saw on crowd-funding site Kickstarter a little while back. Now Kickstarter has introduced me to yet...

Piquing our Geek: evoz baby monitors for plugged-in parents

by Jeana | Baby Tech, Family Safety Apps

I can’t believe my kids are old enough for me to say things like, “Well…we didn’t have that when my kid was a baby,” but a mere six years later and I’m already waxing nostalgia about how much different it was before all the advances...

Piquing Our Geek: Scooba goes where no robot vacuum has fit before

by Christina Refford | Smart Appliances

When I find myself doing the really icky chores around the house, like scrubbing the floor under my kids’ breakfast chairs, or getting on my hands and knees around the toilet, I think: In this enlightened age, shouldn’t there be a button I can push to take...

Piquing Our Geek: PadPivot lends a hand to your tablet

by Christina Refford | Laptop + Tablet Cases

As cool as our Samsung Galaxy tablet is, I can’t help but wish I had an extra hand to prop it up when I’m trying to follow a recipe off a website or scrolling Twitter while we watch a movie together. Hey, I like two hands for popcorn, thankyouverymuch....

Piquing our Geek: Current Cost EnviR helps control home energy usage

by Beth | Green Tech

As a mom with 3 kids (and a whole lot of technology), I am always looking for ways to tame my skyrocketing home utility bills. So I was interested when I saw that Current Cost added a new monitor to their line-up which not only allows people to identify energy usage...

Piquing Our Geek: Paperlinks adds QR codes to baby announcements and party invitations

by Christina Refford | Helpful Services

As nice as paper cards can look, do people still pick up the phone to RSVP anymore? Not in my world, which definitely is a downer when I’ve invited 50 people to a big event. Now, there is a company that is figuring out a way to marry the convenience of...

Piquing Our Geek: Refrigerators without the HFC

by Beth | Green Tech

We’re all for greening up our homes and lives wherever we can, and sometimes that comes from the manufacturers, who give us better options in the first place. We read this week that General Electric plans to introduce the first HFC-free refrigerator for US...

Piquing Our Geek: Amazon’s bad gift exchange system

by Cool Mom Staff | Helpful Services

This morning we read about the new bad gift exchange system patented by Amazon, and we had to ask ourselves: Best idea ever? Or the end of graciousness as we know it? CNN described it as “the nuclear option for gifts” – a kind of system that would...

Piquing Our Geek: Custom Headphones for Lyric Freaks

by Beth | Audio

I know people that I can describe as a man or woman of their word, but that’s being taken to a whole new level when words become a style of personalization for gadgets. A pair of The Street Headphones are a holy, major, unabashed splurge at $1,100, but what...

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