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18 of the coolest kids’ tech toys and gifts: Holiday Tech Gifts 2014

We’ve shared our favorite cool tech toys and gifts for younger kids, and now our Holiday Tech Gift guide series continues with the coolest tech toys and gifts for older kids. Whether you’ve got a grade-schooler who’s outgrown a learning tablet, or a...

Ozobot: A smart robot that gets your kids more intelligent too

by Jeana | Tech Toys and Random Fun

The concept of intelligent robots taking over the planet used to be something you’d only see in sci-fi movies but I’m starting to wonder whether a robotic takeover may not be so far-off. Okay, maybe not in our immediate future, but highly-programmable...

Web Coolness: Emoji we want to see, thoughts on social media, and divorce selfies

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Have you ever found yourself wishing for the perfect emoji? Check out this fun fun list of emoji that we would love to see. Hello Kitty isn’t a...

Robot Turtles, the most backed board game in Kickstarter history, is ready for play

by Christina Refford | Tech Toys and Random Fun

Back in September, I discovered a cool board game on Kickstarter with a lofty goal: To teach kids as young as four the basics of programming. And now that I have a final copy of Robot Turtles, I can say that you parents of preschoolers are about to have a lot of fun...

Anki Drive review: Racing video games get real

by Kristin | Tech Toys and Random Fun

If you’ve not hear about the wildly hot new tech toy Anki DRIVE, it’s the brain-child of oh, just a few Carnegie Mellon scientists who combined robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and slot car racing to create an entirely new breed of toy....

ROMO, the robotic pet, comes in peace. And, unlike a puppy, he won’t shed on the furniture

by Christina Refford | Tech Toys and Random Fun

If your kids are no longer enchanted by SIRI, there’s a new robot in town that is ready to enter their iPhone and make things fun again. Known as ROMO, this programmable robotic pet is part educational, part adorable, and part little fun plaything to crawl after...

Holiday Tech Gifts 2013: The coolest tech gifts for kids

by Cool Mom Staff | Holiday Tech Gifts

We’re so excited to launch our 2013 Holiday Tech Gift Guide with the very coolest tech gifts for kids. Boy, this was a tough year to pare down our very favorites, but pare down we did, leaving you with 16 tech gifts for kids of all ages that we think...

Piquing Our Geek: Augmented reality greeting cards

by Jeana | Random Coolness

We’ve covered our fair share of greeting card apps, like Artogram, Red Stamp and Paperless Post, but sometimes, it’s nice to get an actual card in the mail. (Remember those days?) And getting a greeting card like this one will blow your mind. Campaigning...

Web Coolness: The Darth Vader Tumblr, the 6 types of Pinterest moms and iPhone 5 rumors we hope are true

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are a few links we’ve enjoyed reading around the web this week. We hope you like them too! Ha! Love this Tumblr series on having Darth Vader as your dad. [via @blurb] Whoa, check out this high-tech coffee shop. Do you follow these do’s and...

A robot that’s ready for summer too

by Liz Gumbinner | Tech Toys and Random Fun

Poking around one of my favorite online shops, Fat Brain Toys, I was looking to see what’s new and geeky and cool for kids now that school is close to letting out around here. That’s when I came across this robot. But it’s no ordinary robot;...

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