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What happens when 14 young designers put their heads together to figure out how to promote IKEA's newest furniture collection? The highly-innovative IKEA PS 2014 , that's what. It's the first fully-functional, interlinked web site on Ins…

By now, texting acronyms like LOL and OMG are pretty pervasive in pop culture; my daughter knew them in preschool, you hear them from the least hip anchors on TV morning shows, and heck, your own parents probably have texted you an LOL a…

Well if there was any doubt that wearable tech was blowing up--and getting prettier--you only have to look at these pages where it seems that there's something new and cool coming out nearly every day now. Recently, it was the beautiful …

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…

As much as I love Twitter -- both for the news and the conversation -- there are times when I just need to cut down on the noise in my feed--TV shows I don't watch, playoffs I don't care about, or nonstop tweets from Caribbean vacations …

Wishing all our readers a wonderful, relaxing, totally non-contentious day. Maybe you'll even get to unplug a little. Unless you don't want to. Hey, breakfast in bed followed by uninterrupted Pinterest browsing sounds good to us. Happy M…

If you're like me and have ever tried to pop that perfect picture onto Instagram only to discover it just sucks as a square, you need to try InstaSize , a cool app that will show you how to resize a photo for Instagram. Well better, it w…

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…

T his is the first in a new series of posts about apps that kids are using, that parents should be aware of. And there are lots. Hope it helps. Last week brought the announcement the new Facebook Nearby Friends feature in the Facebook mo…

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 often have moments when I wish I had Google Maps for items I can't find in my own house. And now, like magic, there's a new digital inventory app called Snupps may make finding your things a lot easier before they're even "lost." While…

I'm excited about the introduction of Gemshare , a brand new recommendations app for iOS that's like a mix of Yelp meets Angie's List meets Travelocity meets your own Facebook network. It lets you create a social network of actual friend…

One of the most common requests we get from our readers lately is our recommendation for the best Instagram collage apps that are easy to use. There seem to be a million apps out there that provide the basic functions of creating a photo…

If you're anything like the sports lovers in our lives, you've got the game on the big screen and your smartphone in your hand, flipping through Twitter, Facebook, and other cool Android apps for sports fans to help bring the game to lif…

These days there's no shortage of ways to create your own cool Instagram photo gifts , but custom Instagram photo cookies is definitely a first. Like most of the world, we're pretty obsessed with Instagram around here ( are you following…

When you check your Facebook profile, do you have a notification that says "Who's Looking At My Profile" on the top left? If so, you're one of the lucky few to get a first look at the huge new Facebook Reveal feature--which is either a g…

So cool geeky jewelry can be a little hard to find. Personally, I'll pass on the gihugic QR code necklace. But then I stumbled upon Saffron and Saege on Etsy and well, I can't just pick one favorite. The best part is that with these affo…

If you want to devote a whole 5 or 10 seconds and see your first tweet on Twitter, there's an easier way than scrolling back to the beginning. Visit Twitter's discover.twitter.com/first-tweet page just launched to celebrate their 8th bir…

I love to travel abroad and am lucky to have done quite a bit pre-kids. Because now? Please. Luckily, with the cool new Findery app , I can still uncover known and unknown gems about my dream destination, Paris, and anywhere else in the …

All hail the new Spoiler Shield app , a mobile app whose time has come. It's very rare that I watch TV in real time these days, and for so many of us, it's all about Roku or DVR--which means we have to dodge all those spoilers on our soc…

We were so excited this morning to learn that Entrepreneur Magazine included Cool Mom Tech as one of the top 5 tech pinners you should be following . Wow! What a huge honor to have the Cool Mom Tech pinterest boards featured alongside so…

Did everyone's aunt have a Polaroid camera? Because that was the coolest thing I had ever seen sometime around 1978. The idea of seeing, capturing, and instantly sharing imagery certainly didn't start with Instagram -- Polaroid was the f…

This week, you may have heard buzz about the launch of the new Facebook Paper app . (It's been a busy week for them, considering the huge success of the Facebook Lookback videos we shared yesterday.) In a nutshell, Paper combines your Fa…

In honor of Facebook's 10th birthday, they're offering users a pretty cool feature called Lookback , which had me tearing up within the first few seconds. Just make sure you're logged into your Facebook account, then head over to the Loo…