Web Coolness: Goodbye Galaxy Note 7, hello Google Home, and do smart leggings really work?
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. The coolest toothbrushing apps for kids. Because Halloween is coming. Here’s why Samsung is abandoning their Galaxy Note 7. TL;DR = It blows up. A new video...
Toca TV: A cool, new Toca Boca app unlike anything they’ve done before
We always get excited when there’s a new Toca Boca app to download, and their newest launch, Toca TV, is no exception. It’s a cool, kid-friendly, parent-approved video streaming service for kids age 3-8 that you’ll want to check out stat. Related:...
Up, up and away with the Sago Mini Planes app
Lately, my preschooler is all about airplanes, but even if your kids aren’t as obsessed as mine, I bet they’ll still love the Sago Mini Planes app. Similar to Sago Mini Friends app (which we’ve featured here on Cool Mom Tech), the Sago Mini Planes...
Web Coolness: A smart jump rope, a new Toca Boca app, and free books for your Kindle
Here are some of our favorite tech links from the web this week. We hope you enjoy them too. For all you bike lovers, meet handleband. Netflix might pay you to travel and take Instagram photos. A smart jump rope. Cool! We spy a few tech gifts in the new Ultimate...
Calling Toca Boca fans: Get ready to bust a move with the new Toca Dance app
As much as I can hold my own on the dance floor, the stark reality is that I have about two moves I heavily rely on. (Ask anyone at any wedding I’ve ever been to). Despite my efforts to expand my moves repertoire, I think I have to relegate myself to the fact...
Fun Christmas apps for kids: 8 options that they’ll still want to play in January.
Sometimes I need just a little quiet at home over the holidays, you know? And since my kids are app-crazy anyway, they always think it’s a treat to find cool new Christmas apps for kids that they haven’t tried yet. While we have a few from years past that...
The new Toca Blocks turns your kids into their own masters of the universe. Mainly because they’re building it from scratch.
My entire household is pretty thrilled that Toca Blocks, the 30th(!) app from favorite app developer, Toca Boca, just launched today. I got an early peek at it, and I’m happy to report, it’s just as fabulous as the others. And while Toca Hair Salon and...
13 of the best Android apps for kids, all right on Google Play
Since so many of you write us asking for the best Android apps for kids, we are so honored that Google Play reached out too, asking us to be this month’s expert kids’ app curator in their family category! We get to join the likes of trusted...
Web Coolness: #PlutoFlyBy, Camp Google, and is your private Instagram account really private?
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you like them too. We’re pretty impressed with Camp Google. Bonus: It’s free! Awesome way to keep kids busy this summer. Why this mom became a SnapChat convert. Are private...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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