by Cool Mom Team | Editors' Picks of the Year
Over the course of this year, we’ve put together lots of helpful tech tips and tricks, so many of them from your own questions to us. (We love answering reader questions!) Here, 11 of our very favorite tech tips of the year (including lots just for parents or...
by Kate Etue | Uncategorized
I am so grateful for the advances in tech we’ve seen in the last few years. Still, there are times when I know I need to put down the screens and be present, but that’s really hard when I’m expecting an important call or email. The Notti Smart Lamp,...
by Jeana | Babies, Life and Home
There’s no doubt that we are entering the era of the connected home. Products like the Belkin WeMo, WiFi slow cooker and Apple’s rollout of HomeKit just scratch the surface of the influx of technology we expect in the coming year to help with running your...
by Nicole Blades | Best Apps
There are three things you need to know about the productivity app IFTTT: 1) It’s an acronym that stands for If This, Then That. 2) It’s pronounced like the ‘ift’ in the word gift. 3) It’s out here saving lives. Okay, that’s a...
by Christina Refford | Fitness + Health
These days, there’s no shortage of cool tech that families can wear around their wrists, but it’s about to get more useful and sophisticated with the development of the Sync Smartband. Made in sizes for kids and their grown ups, this little watch-sized...
by Nicole Blades | Back to School Tech
There’s excitement and anxiousness in the air at back to school time, but for many parents, this time of year can also bring about a little dread. As in: Ugh. Here comes the deluge of To-Do lists and classroom paperwork and lunch-packing and scheduling and on...
by Esther Chen | Babies, Gear + Hardware
With products like Jawbone and Fitbit and dozens more that are ushering us into a new era of wearable tech, it seems only natural that wearable tech for babies is next, right? But a wearable baby monitor that can sense, learn and predict your baby’s behavior?...
by Kristen Chase | Uncategorized
When I saw the brilliance that is Kid Lid, I couldn’t help but wish I’d had one of these brilliant laptop keyboard covers when my kids were little. And that I had thought of an idea like this myself. Darn. Like dad Matt Mogol, founder of Kid Lid, I’d...