by Liz Gumbinner | Life and Home
Long live my Grandpa’s reel-to-reel, symbol of long, boring vacation films we were forced to sit through for hours on end as children. And now–yeah, I feel a sort of nostalgic longing for that kind of simplicity, pulling down the giant projector screen and...
by Christina Refford | Entertainment, Kids
Whether your kids are used to you spinning vinyl or are more likely to ask, what’s a record?, we have a new kids’ music download from the funky-fresh duo, the Sugar Free Allstars, that may have them asking you to dust off your old albums and play DJ for...
by Liz Gumbinner | Uncategorized
Okay so yes, we’re obsessed with retro phone cases. Images of VCR tapes, vintage telephones and old library cards are adorning our phones, making us certain that there’s a collective yearning for simpler times. Even as we would shrivel and die without our...
by Kristen Chase | Uncategorized
If you’re like me and still refer to DVDs as “video tapes,” then you probably love retro smartphone cases like I do. Our newest find: This very cool (tubular? rad? gnarly?) VHS smartphone case. Better, you will not be confused by it and wonder what...
by Delilah S. Dawson | Uncategorized
Remember when buttons actually clicked, dials actually twisted, and packaged cupcakes were actually made out of food? We do, and we love to see the past recreated beautifully on retro phone cases as our readers might have noticed. Here are a few more we discovered at...
by Christina Refford | Tech Toys
Thirty years ago, a sledgehammer flew across our television screens during the Super Bowl, heralding the birth of the Apple Macintosh personal computer on January 24, 1984. Today, many of us will celebrate the Macintosh anniversary by shooting emails from our 5th...
by Christina Refford | Entertainment, Kids
Whether you like the newer songs or the old classics, we asked our Cool Mom Tech writers to pick out their favorite coolest Christmas music to play with their families and wow, what a variety we got! From Johnny Mathis to Ella Fitzgerald to the Muppets. Download each...
by Delilah S. Dawson | Gear + Hardware
Has the audiophile in your life been very, very good this year? One more to add to our coolest audio gifts list: a beautiful, compact portable sound system and alarm clock that’s beautiful inside and out, thanks to sustainable wood and high quality stereo...
