What to get mom for Mother's Day 2015
Mother's Day is this Sunday, and whether your mom is a computer whiz or limited to "liking" every one of your Facebook posts in a mildly annoying way, she deserves gifts that make her life easier.
Forget the lame flowers and paperweight presents, and give the gift of connectivity with one of these cool, mom-friendly gadgets that give Mom a tech makeover.
Your mom gave you the gift of life - the least you could do is give her something nice on Mother's Day. Here are 10 gadgets she can actually use instead.
1. Instead of regular jewelry
What does it do? Simply put, Cuff keeps Mom connected. Using an accelerometer in the jewelry, it sends the other Cuff-wearer (aka mommy) a wireless alert, all without having to whip out her phone.
They act a bit like remote controls for the smartphones that they connect wirelessly to and on which they depend for access to the internet.
Cuff will cost anywhere from $29 for the entry-level mirrored charging jewelry box to $200 for the long pendant necklace and deliveries begin soon.
2. Instead of another flip phone
Did you mom give birth to an Android fanboy or fangirl? Maybe it's time to bring her up to speed too with an Android 5.0 Lollipop smartphone.
Samsung Galaxy S6 is the best phone, according to our updated list, all thanks to its stellar camera and fast processor. It comes in a curved screen variant too, the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge.
With it, Mom won't ask you what her own password again and again thanks to the fingerprint reader on the home button, and she may actually start taking photos instead of accidental taking videos due to the new camera shortcut.
3. Instead of regular music player
The Aether Cone is beautiful music player that thinks and learns where, when and what you like to listen to in order to play the perfect sound for the moment. It's a wholly interactive experience, with voice commands, and manual-control simultaneously available to your favorite person, Mom.
Using Aether's own voice transcription technology, Cone instantly converts your speech to text, searches through the library of over 30 million songs, radio stations, and podcasts to find exactly what you asked for, then plays it back to you like magic.
Not only will Mom love when the devices looks great in any room and any office (with Bluetooth and Multi-room capabilities), but it learns her listening habits, and makes her day delightful-- it's a soundtrack to her life, and it's beautiful. Like her life.
4. Instead of a regular alarm clock
Now there's a way to let your mother wake up to fresh flowers every day of the year.
With the limited-edition Soundfreaq Sound Rise Flower Freaq you get a super modern wireless speaker (via Bluetooth) and high-tech alarm dipped in a beautiful bouquet of wildflowers.
The device is equipped with a universal USB power port, so you can charge your smartphone with ease. Sound Rise also offers dual alarms with weekday/weekend settings and a dimmable display. Flower Freaq is available for $99.
5. Instead of instant coffee
Put the app on her Samsung phone, Apple iPad, or whichever device is closest when she wakes up to power up her coffee pot and get that jolt.
The sleek black and chrome coffee maker sells for $150.
6. Instead of a regular printer
The palm-sized printer uses Bluetooth to connect with your mobile device and prints out your favorite photos in less than a minute. It's just like an old Polaroid, but it works with a smartphone.
Remind Mom that you don't even have to wave the 2 x 3 print in the wind to get the picture to appear or worry about smudging it because it uses Zink zero-ink printing. There's also peel-off backing on the prints, so you can turn them into stickers.
7. Instead of a trainer
Is your mom constantly debating getting a fitness tracker, but thinks they are too geeky? You can get her the Misfit Shine fitness tracker from Swarovsky.
The Shine is a wireless activity and sleep tracker that utilizes sunlight to harvest energy. Your mom will be able to track her fitness without batteries, cables or looking tacky.
8. Instead of a regular frame
Most if not all Mom's are sentimental and love to keep photos of their treasured memories, which often times include pictures of you (duh!). Why not upgrade your moms photo book to the digital age with a digital photo frame?
With Nixplay Edge's Wi-Fi Cloud Digital Photo Frame mom's can easily add multiple pics to the frame by email, directly to the photo frame.
9. Instead of a regular turntable
This is not your parent's vinyl turntable, it's now your Mom's. VinylPlay Turntable by Flexon is a turntable for the digital music age that Mom is now living in.
VinylPlay not only plays records, it can be easily integrated into modern streaming systems through its analog-to-digital technology.
10. Instead of a regular purse
Let Mom worry about one less thing and help her stay organized with the Dagne Dover handbag, which neatly stores an iPhone, iPad and chargers, Mac power adapters and other tech accessories.
This is for the Super on-the-go mom who stores all her devices and magic tricks in one place (notice how she always whips something out of her bag).
The big totes, starting at $265 can hold a laptop and charger inside, with its coated canvas so it's extremely durable. Now mom will never have a black hole handbag again.
Maybe she's interested in our Apple Watch review?
