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Sprite Box: Code Hour is our cool free app of the week.

by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps

We love finding cool toys and apps that do a great job teaching our kids the basics of coding, since it’s a language we expect they’ll want (and need) to know when they’re adults. When they’ve got great design and fun play through too,...

22 fantastic holiday tech deals to reward you last-minute shoppers | 2016 Holiday Gift Guide

by Liz Gumbinner | Gear + Hardware, Holiday Picks, Holiday Tech Gifts

As we get closer to Christmas and Hanukkah (eep!) we thought we’d close out our 2016 Holiday Tech Gift Guide should help you out since it’s all about last minute holiday tech deals and discounts. Yep, those of you procrastinators and busy parents?...

12 of the coolest educational tech toys for kids | 2016 Tech Gift Guide

by Cool Mom Staff | Holiday Tech Gifts

Yay! We’re so happy to be back with our annual Cool Mom Tech Holiday Tech Gift Guide, all fresh and new for 2016. And to kick it off, we’ve got the coolest educational tech toys for kids of all ages. Whether you’re shopping for a curious preschooler...

Cubetto: A robot that teaches kids to code, even before they can read. No screens required.

by Kate Etue | Tech Toys

You know how much we love to find a cool, innovative STEM toys for kids at Cool Mom Tech. Well, we think the brand new Cubetto robot by Primo Toys definitely belongs on wish lists this holiday season, especially if you’re shopping for preschoolers. Get this:...

Flybrix kits let kids build their own LEGO drones. Then crash them. Then build them again.

by Kate Etue | Tech Toys

Of all the STEM toys out there for kids these days, LEGOs are my hands-down favorite. Except when I step on them, that is. Over the years, we’ve seen so many companies incorporate them in their learning toys and no surprise, considering how popular they are....

BOSEbuild Speaker Cube: A DIY Bluetooth speaker kit for kids that totally rocks. Yay STEM!

by Jeana | DIY, Gear + Hardware

We have certainly covered lots of DIY STEM toys for kids and even more Bluetooth speakers here on Cool Mom Tech, but the BOSEbuild Speaker Cube is the first product I’ve seen that so awesomely combines these two elements. Hello, holiday gift idea. Related: 5...

Game Developer Barbie is here, she’s hip, and she actually knows how to code.

by Liz Gumbinner | Tech Toys

The folks at Mattel have been pretty busy this year, with a new girl power rebranding campaign, a line of curvy Barbies launched with much fanfare, and even a Misty Copeland Barbie that flew off the shelves. Well now, a mere 24 years after Barbie uttered “math...

Osmo Coding is screen time you can feel good about.

by Kate Etue | Tech Toys

I’m convinced the reason my kids keep going back to play Osmo, one of our favorite educational tools for kids, is its brilliant mashup of digital elements and tangible controls they can actually touch and move around on the table. If you’re not familiar...

The Mover Kit: The first wearable for kids they code and design themselves.

by Jeana | Tech Toys

Over the past couple years, it has been incredible to witness all the awesome new ways we have to introduce our kids to STEM. And now we’ve come across another really cool product called Mover Kit, the first wearable for kids that they can code themselves. Cool!...

Can you teach coding to preschoolers? Here are three toys that will try

by Christina Refford | Tech Toys

Coding is certainly one of the new buzzwords in education, along with STEM, STEAM, and now, believe it or not, STREAM. And while a lot of learn-to-code apps toys, and games, like Robot School, Dash Robot, and Code Master, are targeted primarily to grade-school kids,...

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