Liz Gumbinner

I am so excited to stumble across SUPERSOCK in my daily (or hourly) Etsy browsing, because wow, what a great idea for making cool flash drives: They're all upcycled from your favorite toys from your own childhood. Eco-consciousness + ing…

Well it didn't take long at all for Roku to come out with their very own Roku Streaming Stick to compete with the Google Chromecast which is creeping its way into carry-ons of entertainment-starved travelers everywhere. As an avowed Roku…

In the wake of the hugely popular female LEGO scientist minifig , LEGO goes one giant step for humankind further in introducing a LEGO Research Institute set featuring female scientists . And we stand up and applaud for more smart STEM t…

Admittedly we spend a lot of time window shopping for our own tech gadgets, but with Father's Day coming up, we thought we'd do the benevolent thing and look for a little gadget case love for the menfolk. Should the cool dads in your lif…

I've been having the best time browsing for Father's Day gifts on the site Hatch.co lately. (Also uh, self-proclaimed Mother's Day gifts, in which every day is Mother's Day but that's another story.) But if we're to think of the dads--oh…

If you're looking for a sweet Father's Day gift (you are starting to look, right?) for a cool, stylish, gadget-loving dad I think I've found just the thing. Now on sale for a sweet 40% off at Nordstrom, the Burberry iPad Mini case jumped…

Sadly, my kids' interest in most drawing apps are growing more and more short-lived. The basic digital coloring pages just don't hold the interest of a seven and nine-year-old they way they once did. And then we found the My Virtual Fash…

With summer unofficially here (and can I get a big amen to that?) it's the time a fashion-conscious techie's mind turns toward other pursuits. No, not getting off the iPad; I mean finding a more summery case for toting that bad boy aroun…

We spend a lot of time on Twitter. Maybe too much. But between our personal accounts, and @coolmomtech and @coolmompicks , all of us here definitely get to see our share of brand outreach. Not just to us directly, but to other folks on T…

Just in time for Memorial Day weekend--and Memorial Day weekend traffic, whoo!--I was so happy to get a chance to sit down with Google yesterday and learn more about some of the incredible changes they've made to the Google Maps app. I f…

Not every guy wants a slick, board room-ready, fancy European looking iPad case. I know quite a few who would appreciate something a little more rugged. More defiant. More ironically low-tech. For him, consider the Upcycled Mail Sack iPa…

Long live my Grandpa's reel-to-reel, symbol of long, boring vacation films we were forced to sit through for hours on end as children. And now--yeah, I feel a sort of nostalgic longing for that kind of simplicity, pulling down the giant …

I'm all for gift cards as Mother's Day gifts (or any other gift) when it's really appreciated and thoughtful. For me: $500 to the shoe department at Saks will do. (There's a reason it's in our Mother's Day gift guide this year, ha.) For …

If you're like me, you get a ton of promoted content from Facebook, including a slew of recommendations for groups that you may want to join. Some of them are open--as in, hop on in, like the page and you're done! --while some of them ar…

We definitely geek out over Star Wars Day each year with lots of fun picks in honor of May the Fourth..as in, May the Fourth be with you. (If you don't get it by now, we'll have another post up for you shortly.) Well we're not the only o…

My own mother has made the leap to Pandora and other streaming services which I think is pretty great. But I know that deep down, she will always be committed to NPR and often wants to listen to it in the easiest way possible: from a rad…

While Mother's Day gifts tend to focus on traditional views of motherhood, all the geek chic jewelry we find proves we've definitely gone from Oh mom...can't you get the VCR to stop blinking 12:00? to moms who blog, code, develop, domina…

Back when I discovered the Jabra Stone , it was my first experience with a bluetooth headset. And yet...it looked like a headset. Meaning I could walk down the street taking hands-free phone calls, and looking a crazy person talking to m…

For the last year or so, erroneous reports of "hacked" baby monitor systems that are WiFi enabled have been perpetuated by the media--and trickled down to our readers, who understandably email us to ask about the potential of danger with…

For the past few weeks, New York City has been awash in giant Easter eggs, in a brilliant (if a little time-consuming for me) social-media-meets-installation-art campaign for Fabergé called The Big Egg Hunt . It brought eager New Yorkers…

I'm laughing. I can't help it. A mute button pacifier . The perfect geeky baby gift. Yes, of course pacifiers have many expert-proven benefits about self-soothing and sleep and lalalalala. But let's be honest, when you're a new parent yo…

I have become something of an iPhone charging addict. Does that make me a juicer? I can't travel without my Mophie case, my portable battery pack , and now my Belkin BOOSTUP , a fast charger for iPad, iPhone and other iOS devices. Let's …

I cannot say enough awesome things about my Sonos wireless speaker system . I am convinced that now friends want to choose my house for dinner parties, specifically so they can play with it. However if I have had any complaint, it's thei…

Okay so yes, we're obsessed with retro phone cases. Images of VCR tapes , vintage telephones and old library cards are adorning our phones, making us certain that there's a collective yearning for simpler times. Even as we would shrivel …