5 Tech Gifts Every Mom Needs

5 tech gifts every mom needs

5 tech gifts every mom needs

I was excited to attend the Techlicious and Consumer Technology Association Lunch a few weeks ago and got to learn about some great tech products!  I wanted to share my top favorite tech gifts for moms.  Personally, I prefer when people buy me tech items as gifts as I rarely go out and buy them myself.  I shop for clothes, makeup and shoes constantly but when it comes to tech stuff, I’ll be honest, I just don’t know where to start. I always rely on recommendations from others.  But that’s why I loved attending this lunch to learn about the products that both Techlicious and CTA hand picked to share with us.

5 Tech Gifts Every Mom Needs

AfterShokz Trek Titanium Headphones

5 tech gifts every mom needs

If you are someone that uses headphones to listen to music, you must check out the AfterShokz Trek Titanium.  We got to take a goodie bag home from the lunch and this was one of the products they gifted us.  I tried it out and now I use it a ton!  They are seriously some of the best wireless headphones I’ve used.  I love that they are not typical earbuds that you have to stick in your ear.  They sit kind of on the edge so they never fall off, they are sweat resistant and the sound quality is amazing!  They come in 4 colors (I chose pink, of course!) You can even pair them to your phone to take calls.  How cool right?

I like giving gifts that people will use and as a mom who uses her phone constantly to make calls, watch videos, listen to podcasts, music for working out etc… these are SO useful.

Canon PowerShot G9 X Mark II

5 tech gifts every mom needs

I think all of us rely on our camera phone for most photos but as a former wedding photographer I’ve still got all my equipment that I like to use to take photos.  As much as I love the iPhone camera, nothing beats a photo that comes out of my DSLR.  But as a mom, carrying around a huge camera is pretty much the most impractical thing so I have been carrying around a point and shoot.  Mine is a few years old, so I’ve been wanting an upgrade.  When I saw the Canon PowerShot G9 X Mark II, it was the perfect size, lightweight and the photos and videos it takes are beautiful!  It also has built in wifi and bluetooth which means you can send photos directly to your phone without having to connect it to your computer.

I love having the extra camera as I run out of room on my phone all the time and instead of sitting there deleting photos, I can just take photos on the camera and then transfer the photos I love to my phone.  Oh and another fun thing?  You can use your phone as a remote!  So you can set it up to take photos somewhere else and then use your phone to take the picture. Yay for everyone being in the family photo and no awkward running back and forth!

Ecovacs DEEBOT R95

5 tech gifts every mom needs

OK so I never got on the robot vacuum bandwagon but after seeing the Ecovacs DEEBOT R95, I really want one!  Our house is a mixture of carpet and hardwood and we have two dachshunds that shed a ton so this little vacuum is just what we need. I love how it can map out your floorplan to know exactly where to vacuum.  It also connects with our Amazon Echo or we can control it on our phones which makes cleaning super easy!

iHome iSP100

5 tech gifts every mom needs

This was another product they gifted us at the lunch so I went home and tried it out and it was one of those products that I said “why didn’t I get one of these sooner?”  It’s such a basic thing but so smart!  The iHome iSP100 is a smart plug which means whatever you plug into it, you can control with either your phone (using their app) or when you pair it to your Amazon Alexa you can just talk to it to tell it what to do!  This one is actually great for outdoor lights.  I mean, so smart right?  All you do is hit a button on your app and your outdoor lights are on!

We do have ours connected to our Amazon Echo so we just say “Alexa, turn on the lights” and voila, the lights are on!  I love it!  It’s great because it’s a small “chore” that we can give our daughter to do and she loves asking Alexa to turn the lights on or off.

 

Amazon Echo Plus

5 tech gifts every mom needs

If you are a long time reader, you know I’m obsessed with the Amazon Echo.  I’ve written about it several times and the 5 reasons why every mom needs the Amazon Echo is one of my most popular posts so I know a ton of you love your Echo as well!  We got our Echo when it first came out and now there is a new version out, the Amazon Echo Plus and of course I want it!  You can connect it to a bunch of other “smart” devices like lights, plugs, locks and just control all of those things with your Echo.

For our family we mostly use it for music. I listen to music and podcasts more than I watch TV so it’s something that I use a lot.  We also try not to let our daughter watch too much TV so we often play kids music on the Echo and sing along to it or just have dance parties!  But beyond the music we also use it to turn on/off lights (see above), ask about the weather, set timers and so much more! We’ve just found it to be so handy and I can’t imagine our house without it.

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