Cool gifts designed by your kids’ favorite gamers and YouTubers at Maker Shop.
My kids are obsessed with Aphmau, the hugely popular YouTuber, Vlogger, designer — and mom, by the way — who creates the Minecraft roleplay videos they devour like I used to watch, oh, Captain Caveman. I happened to click on the Aphmau Maker Shop link...
What do your tweets say about you? A fun, easy quiz.
If you need a five-minute time killer today (because we know you have just oodles of extra time to kill, parents) check out the very fun if questionably accurate Analyze Words. It’s as simple as plugging in your Twitter handle — or anyone else’s...
Why we freaking love Facebook’s I F’ng Love Science
Yes, we went with the slightly sanitized version on the name, because this is a family show here. But that doesn’t take away from how much we love the hilarious, crazy-popular FB page turned full-fledged blog, I F’ing Love Science, also known as...
CuriosityStream lets you turn your binge-watching habit to fantastic documentaries.
Documentaries are hot right now. The whole earth seems to be obsessed with Making a Murderer, and movies like What Happened Miss Simone?, Man on Wire and Jiro Dreams of Sushi have been big hits in the last few years too. I’m not surprised, considering I’m...
The Hubble Telescope Advent Calendar: Who says faith + science don’t mix?
While we always share the coolest advent calendars on Cool Mom Picks each year, though none might be quite so 21st century as the genius, photo-a-day Hubble Telescope Advent Calendar. Visit the Atlantic online each day for a new, remarkable photo from Hubble, starting...
Rebrickable helps breathe new life into your kids’ old LEGO sets.
I’m usually hesitant about buying a big, expensive LEGO kit because, after my kids put it together once, then what? Sometimes kids keep playing with it, sometimes it ends up dissembled with random bricks I discover all over the house months later. Which is why...
The photo series guaranteed to make you smile from Francois Dourlen
This seems like the kind of weekend after which we all need to smile a little. And I’ve found just the thing. The series of ironically placed iPhone photos over real environments by clever French photographer, professor, and cool dad Francois Dourlen are so...
The cool site that makes your kids realize they have it pretty good. Or, maybe they don’t.
Lately I’ve gotten sucked into a new website called If It Were My Home, which compares countries around the world to your own hometown, or any other location you designate in their search engine. You’ll get a quick snapshot of all kinds of comparable stats...
The easiest way to Halloween-ify your photos from spooky to silly
While we think Halloween photos are pretty fun as they are, PicMonkey has updated their super fun Halloween themes and added a brand new superhero theme that are about the best time-wasters on the web right now that make you feel somewhat productive. You can use them...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
We started Cool Mom Tech in 2010 to help make our increasingly digital lives easier, more organized, more meaningful, and more fun, however old your kids may be.
We love that it's grown to become the go-to source for millions of parents who want commonsense info about tech delivered with a smile.
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(Answer: It's complicated.)
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* An ongoing list of the most trusted Coronavirus websites and resources
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