Cool Mom Team

Obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us , then check out our five favorite pins from this week that you won't want to miss! 1. A cool way to blast tunes on your iPhone . 2. If you use your tablet in the kitchen , you need to stock u…

While technology is already taking on the driving and texting issue in myriad ways, I'm wondering if biking and texting will be the next great issue. Nah, probably not. Which is why there are a few great reasons to invest in a phone moun…

Leave it to Jonathan Adler to take something high tech, make it look low tech, which then makes me want it. Like this old fashioned phone looking thing? Not really a phone at all. Actually it's the Jonathan Adler smartphone dock which we…

As someone who's still riding out the storm after the storm in New York City, I've been inundated with stories of business owners who came forward to help out neighbors in need of a power charge...and a few who didn't. In this day and ag…

Here's to a ghoulish day that we hope is filled with your favorite candy, lots of awesome photo opps, and relatively painless sugar highs. And if you want to make a bewitching photo of yourself or your kiddos, you can use the Halloween t…

We all know by now that a lot of video on demand services leave a lot to be desired in the "current releases" genre. One time that doesn't matter a lick: Halloween! The holiday where the best scary, creepy, or funny-creepy movies never r…

Even though my Facebook news feed is full of Hurricane Sandy Frankenstorm updates today, there are still a ton of political updates that I'd love to remove, at least until Election Day is over. With all due respect to some of my more uh.…

With Hurricane Sandy, aka Frankenstorm, about to make landfall on the east coast, many of us are stocking up on bottled water and charging our gadgets. If you're not in the evacuation zone but are still battening down your hatches, here …

I may not understand it all, but my eight year-old says the Minecraft game is awesomeness , and given how much he and his sisters play it on my iPad, I'll take his word for it. This is a evidently a huge deal among their elementary schoo…

Obsessed with Pinterest like us? Follow us , then check out our favorite pins from this week. 1. It's pretty amazing what you can do with speakers these days. 2. 10 quick tips that will have you taking better photos of your kids in a fla…

There's something about those colorful UrbanEars headphones that make me smile whenever I see that telltale pair of cranberry or sage or lemon yellow cans adorning the ears of my fellow commuters. Now there's a brand new design totally p…

It's official: I may never get my iPad back from my children. Now that there is a new Crayola app that combines all the fun of drawing and coloring with all the brightness and beauty of the tablet screen, my iPad has subtly drifted from …

As expected, today Apple launched a bunch of new gadgets, including the highly anticipated iPad Mini and the big surprise, an iPad 4th generation. But those weren't the only newsworthy products Apple launched that we think might be of in…

I admit that half the fun of owning Apple gadgets is accessorizing them. So leave it to flash sale site Fab.com to feed my obsession, with an entire week-long shop dedicated to iPhone, iPad, and iPod lovers like me. And not surprisingly,…

While there are a lot of very cute Halloween-themed iPhone cases out there these days, I don't tend to be a fan of a smartphone cover I can use for one day a year. With the strong exception of this glow-in-the-dark skin. The iGlowPhone g…

If there's a designer who has this tech thing down, it has to be Marc Jacobs, whose Marc by Marc Jacobs tech accessories are at the top of my list. This season, he's launched an adorable line of animal iPhone cases that are sure to make …

Readers of this site will know we all have a thing for juxtapositions of new and old--like vintage train cases reincarnated as gadget charging stations or high tech home phones with retro style. Now we're going way back, with this very a…

Obsessed with Pinterest like we are? Follow us , then check out our favorite pins from this week that you don't want to miss! 1. An adorable baby gift (and Halloween costume) that will make geeky moms and dads everywhere squeal. 2. A gor…

If you loved the cool notebooks we highlighted last week as part of our 3 Springpad Notebooks that you're going to love series , then hold onto your hats. We've put together more awesome smart notebooks that showcase how powerful this we…

When I think of safe cell phones for kids, I think of two things. The first is safety from strangers or other people; the second is safety from cell phone radiation . And now there's a cell phone in the works that's going to solve both i…

We recently shared 4 amazing wireless Bluetooth speakers that we really love as parents, both for their cool compact style and their affordability. Now there's one more coming your way and we're excited to try this one out. Not just beca…

I'm all for baby Halloween costumes that are quick, clever, and possibly made by someone else. (Let's face it, you'll be lucky if a baby lets you get one good picture in before melting down.) And that is why I'm all over this awesome R2-…

It wasn't all that long ago that Uglydolls hit the world (and my kids' bedroom) by storm, and now they've totally made the leap from crib to computer. The new Uglydoll jump drives by Mimoco just launched as part of their indie artist ser…

Obsessed with Pinterest like we are? Follow us , then check out these 5 pins that you don't want to miss. 1. One of the coolest alphabet apps we've ever seen. 2. A must have if you use your smart phone as a digital recipe book . 3. 5 sup…