A few months ago, I attended cooking school with my husband and son. We didn’t spend a fortune. We didn’t go to France. In fact, we didn’t even leave the house. We attended a class in pan frying onli...
Steam Punk Bling Who says handmade and unique has to be expensive? I bought a pair of these earrings and love them. I’ll be going back for more of this artist’s creations. They turn humble hardware –...
The folks at Chevrolet sent me this video showcasing the women who worked on the 2013 Chevy Malibu. I love it. And not just because I’ve been in that wind tunnel and the safety engineering room...
The folks at JimmyJane sent me the preview of the movie Hysteria (above.) It looks hilarious. I’m a fan of technologies that make life more fun. And I’ll watch anything with Rupert Everet...
Okay, I’m procrastinating. My to-do list has 29 projects and 473 tasks on it. And writing a blog post where I intentionally set out to use the Internet to distract you from productive work is not eve...
I can think of a million mundane and domestic ways to use a swarm of these tiny, autonomous robots around my house: Chasing the dog off the couch a 20o times a day, picking up the trail of clu...
Did you get a bed of roses on Valentine’s Day? A diamond ring? A trip to Paris? No? Me either. Would a new netbook help make up for it? Because I have one. And I’m giving it away. Maybe you saw it in...
HzO has invented a nanotechnology that coats the inside of electronics, making them impervious to water. I have pulled useless electronics out of toilets, the garden after a rainstorm, a bathtub, and...
Do you have to clear spilled orange juice, dirty laundry, and someone else’s craft project away every time you sit down to work? Not me. I have a big monitor, ergonomic keyboard, and two work s...
There is nothing cooler than watching a baby go from incapable of sitting up to reading, doing advance math, repairing broken computers, and driving the car. But this stroller is almost enough to mak...
A version of this ran in my Family Tech column in Family Circle some time ago. Cowry shells were once a common currency worldwide. Spanish doubloons, too, were once much-traded as legal tender. Tod...
It’s been an exciting few weeks over here in GeekGirlfriends land. You may have noticed that I completely redesigned this site. Hard work! Also, my annual tech gift guide is out in print in Family Ci...
If you find yourself bored on a flight before November 18, (and have a computer with you), you don’t have to ante up the $12.95 for in-flight Internet just to mess around on Facebook. There is a way ...
I wandered through the massive Halloween decoration and costume section at Target last week and felt a little sad. Sad for the landfill that so much of this stuff is destined to clog in a few months....
[ I wrote this piece originally back in 2009. But things have changed. This is an update.] “I turned in all my homework and am now getting mostly As. Will you turn my phone back on?” –my ...
If you are feeling sad over the passing of Steve Jobs – as are most of us are just now – and you have kids old enough to wonder why, maybe this is what we like to call in the parenting trade, a “tea...
Okay, so who has an iPhone? I’m sure a few hands went up. Because in only the first part of this year, “Apple sold 16.24 million iPhones,” according to Techcrunch. With that many fellow iPhone...
Last week, a friend I frequently exchange texts with grabbed me and said, “Tell me your phone number!” She had a desperate, end-of-days look in her eyes. So I didn’t ask why, I just told her and watc...
The Target near my house recently underwent a complete remodel. Unawares, I went there with my two teens. We wandered helplessly through the once-familiar aisles, everything we once recognized scramb...
Carrying a tiny point-and-shoot camera is simple: Drop it in a pocket. But carrying a DSLR camera presents a more difficult puzzle. Stuffing it in a backpack means I’ll have it with me....
I’m a big fan of LaCie’s external hard drives. I own several of them. They are cute and functional, high-quality drives. The company is running a giveaway of it’s newly announced Li...
I’m always trying to find more time for reading. I’m also always trying to find time to exercise. So to save time, I like to do both of these things at the same time. Since I hurt myself ...
Being the parent of a teenager can be an adventure — especially when he is big and angry. I got some terrific advice on coping with my son from Dr. Robert Epstein — author of Teen 2.0 ...
I’ve had quite a few exciting adventures this summer. So many that I am having a difficult time keeping up with this blog. But I want to share one story because it contained one of those moment...
I’m in full summer watersports swing here. In the last three days, I’ve been kayaking twice and surfing once. Each time, I’ve had several text-addicted teens along. Fortunately, the...
When my daughter was a messy, candy-hording eight-year-old, I took an expensive gamble and gave her a Nikon D40 DSLR camera. My husband was strongly opposed to this reckless act. Her room at the time...
Case Logic sent me the cutest accessories to check out a couple of weeks ago. I fell instantly in love with the DLBP 14″ Laptop Backpack (above). I’ve tried dozens of ways to carry a lapt...
Today is, apparently, Geek Pride Day. And as a present, the folks at the IT staffing company Modis, sent me the results of a survey they did on how geeks are faring socially these days. It seems rati...
My day at the Bosch demonstration kitchens (one of which is shown above) was a feast of food and a look at intimate inner working of domestic appliances. There were no immersion cookers, autoclaves, ...
I love to cook. I don’t do it every day. But I enjoy it the way I imagine some people enjoy painting. I enjoy it the way I enjoy writing. (I’m not talking about heating up chicken nuggets...
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