holiday gift ideas

Next up in our 2013 guide to holiday tech gifts, stylish tech gifts for your favorite fashionista. And let's face it, aren't all of us pretty much going for geek chic these days? We love these gift ideas for their blend of high style and…

Our 2013 guide to Holiday Tech Gifts continues with 11 of the coolest audio gifts for audiophiles. There is so much amazing stuff out this year we hardly know where to start. Or wait, actually we do. We start with the Jambox Mini. Jawbon…

We're so excited to launch our 2013 Holiday Tech Gift Guide with the very coolest tech gifts for kids. Boy, this was a tough year to pare down our very favorites, but pare down we did, leaving you with 16 tech gifts for kids of all ages …

E ditor's Note: Kindred Prints has changed focus from creating photo books to photo printing services for app developers. Especially as the holidays approach, I find photo books make perfect gifts for so many people. But man, they're not…

Waking up on Christmas Eve with the stress of needing a couple more gifts for those "hard to buy" people is no fun at all. So, let me play Helpful Elf by telling you about a great last-minute, charitable gift that will fill your recipien…

Not everyone needs mega protection for their devices. If you're getting new tablet or phone this holiday like zillions of other people, a sleeve is all you need for easy access, basic protection, and well, style. And these eco-chic handm…

If you're looking for a fun way to mix up the tens, hundreds (or thousands in my case) photos in your camera roll, this cool new photo app is an inexpensive way to take your bevy of pictures and turn it into a work of art, Chuck Close st…

I realize that it should be enough to wrap up a pretty new iPad Mini , stick it under the tree and call it a day. And it is an awesome gift, don't get me wrong. But as someone who likes to add a little bit of a personal touch to all my g…

For those of us who travel a lot, tech is it's own gift. It's our lifelines, our memory preservers, our connection home to our families (thank you, universe, for video chat , on behalf of all parents who travel). And sometimes, tech is o…

Baby's first Christmas is certainly a special one, but if he or she happens to be the offspring of geeks, then not just any handmade stocking or embroidered blanket will do. For the last installment of our Holiday Tech Gifts series, we'v…

Whether you're shopping for someone who's always got her DSLR camera around her neck or the guy who's perfected the art of smart phone photography, we've rounded up 11 of the coolest photography gifts for your favorite shutterbug in ever…

Are you following us on Pinterest ? Come join us, and check out great finds like these every day. 1. One of our all-time favorite photo apps is now free. Hooray! 2. Yes, we know it costs more than the iPad it carries, but wow, this case …

Photo gifts are always popular for the holidays and now that we've got smartphone photos, photo apps, an Instagram addiction, and services that connect to all of the above, it's even easier to find some cool--and affordable--photo gifts …

Today, we're happy to bring you some of our favorite picks in our Holiday Tech Gifts series--cool gifts for the audiophile. With music so much a part of our world, whether you're rocking the earbuds at the gym, starting to go wireless wi…

Next up in our Holiday Tech Gifts series: the coolest games and tech toys for preschoolers and kindergartners. We always love tech toys that build imagination, educate and inspire--just like any toy. And how great that technology is offe…

We're so excited to present the first in our Holiday Tech Gifts series! Starting with . . . cool games and tech toys for the kids. Yeah, we know that big kids and teens probably want shoot-em-up games for their consoles but hey, we're st…

Yesterday on Cool Mom Picks, we featured the very cool eBay Holiday Collective , which has a ton of limited edition holiday gifts from hot designers at very nice prices. So of course I was forced (forced!) to click over. You know...for w…

There are two things you should know about me as a chronicler of my kids' lives: 1. I take lots of photographs of them on various devices. 2. I do absolutely nothing with those photographs. I have a sneaky suspicion that I am not alone i…

Yes, it's that time to start thinking about ways to organize your gift lists. The holidays will be here before we know it. Luckily, these days. there are really a lot of tech resources out there for managing the holiday shopping process,…

With everyone wondering where to print Instagram photos, it's nice there are helpful apps like Keepsy and cool services such as CanvasPop to turn them all into great artwork and gifts. In fact, I think I'm already done with most of my ho…

I've made all sorts of amazing gifts from Instagram photos , like custom coasters even photo books from my iPhone , but I've been hesitant to try the many photo to canvas services because I'm a little worried about how the resolution wil…

At first when I heard about an edible Instagram product I thought...InstaGrahams? But nope. No clever puns. Just beautiful, delicious chocolate. The new service Cocoagraph , from 3D Fine Arts major Rae Vittorelli, merges chocolate and ph…

One of the highlights of our year was putting together our second annual tech gift guide . But we understand that you might still be looking for that perfect tech gift, which hey, we totally get. We're busy moms too. So to help you out w…

For the geek who has everything, we've finally found the alpha and omega of custom gifts. Anyone can have a star. Anyone can have a diamond (at least, a little one). But now you can name a unique mathematical theory after your special so…