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Web Coolness: Geeky Father’s Day cards, game developer Barbie, and the best food podcasts for families

by Cool Mom Staff | Baby Tech, Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them too! These funny Father’s Day cards, like this one from Wit and Whistle, are cracking us up. Here’s what to do if you spill liquids on your MacBook. Don’t panic! How...

Web Coolness: A book vending machine, tech Father’s Day gifts, and new emoji!

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them too. A book vending machine! We love this idea. How tech helped during the UCLA lockdown this past week. With so much guilt about screen time, parents, here’s something...

Osmo Coding is screen time you can feel good about.

by Kate Etue | Tech Toys and Random Fun

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 and Random Fun

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 and Random Fun

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,...

The Thimble STEM subscription box brings cool projects to your doorstep every month

by Jeana | Tech Toys and Random Fun

I’m amazed at the quantity and quality of STEM toys and projects for kids that keep coming out. Anything that parents view as educational and kids view as entertainment gets a thumbs up in my book, which is why I’m excited about a new STEM subscription...

Our 11 coolest new tech toys of 2015: Editors best of the year

by Cool Mom Staff | Editors' Picks of the Year, Tech Toys and Random Fun

Okay, so this is the post in our editors’ top picks of the year series we know a lot of our readers have been waiting for: The coolest tech toys of 2015. There are so many amazing trends we’re seeing here: Coding is becoming more accessible to even...

Make your own Star Wars BB-8 and more, with free tutorials from littleBits

by Kate Etue | DIY

To celebrate the release of The Force Awakens — you have heard of it, right? — the team behind one of our favorite tech toys, littleBits, has put together a very cool user-generated #BITSWARS campaign, generating nearly 100 (so far) DIY project ideas...

$5 great STEM toys for kids with a math focus. Because despite what you may remember, math is now fun.$

5 great STEM toys for kids with a math focus. Because despite what you may remember, math is now fun.

by Christina Refford | Tech Toys and Random Fun

As we approach the final week of Christmas shopping, I plan spend a few minutes to make sure that I’m buying toys and games that will feed my kids’ brains as much as their need for play. And while “math toys” has never appeared on any of my...

16 really cool STEM toys and gifts for kids: 2015 Tech Gift Guide

by Cool Mom Staff | Holiday Tech Gifts

We love toys for kids that are educational too, which is why we’re so happy to share of these some favorite cool STEM toys and gifts for kids as the next installment in our 2015 Holiday Tech Gift Guide series. And we’re extra happy to share this guide on behalf...

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