25 Tech Gifts for Tech Challenged Moms

If Mom likes to do her bit to save the planet, the Rocketbook Fusion Smart Reusable Notebook will mean she never has to waste paper again. With seven styles of pages included, the pages can be scanned and saved to the cloud, before being wiped clean and ready to use again.

This four in one Touch Lamp will make a truly useful tech gift for moms, as it does the job of four gadgets with just one unit. The modern design looks sleek and stylish, and incorporates a wireless phone charger, night light, Bluetooth speaker, and an adjustable phone holder for hands-free viewing.

If your mother enjoys the ambience a candle makes, this two in one LED Flame Speaker will let her listen to music while enjoying the soothing atmosphere. Ideal for use both indoors and out, the unusual lamp creates a flickering light, while the speaker can be linked to her device via Bluetooth.

A mother’s hands go through a lot during the day; cooking, cleaning, and working, not to mention the copious amounts of hugging she does! Treat her hands to some TLC with this Electric Hand Massager. Ideal for arthritis, carpal tunnel, and more, the machine comes with four massage programmes and optional heat.

If she panics about pressing the wrong keys while cleaning her keyboard, let her housekeep without the stress with this tub of Cleaning Gel. A bit like play putty, this gel can simply be pressed onto the keyboard to grab and lift dust particles and debris from in-between the keys.

A busy parent can find it hard to set aside time in the day to just ‘be’, so give her a reminder to take five with The Moment Pebble. Beautifully sized to fit in the hand, this pebble encourages her to be in the moment as she breathes in time to the light.

Let’s face it, it’s moms who have kept us safe in recent years with sanitizing, washing, and mask-wearing, so give her some extra help with the Sanitize Anything Wand. Using ultraviolet light, this rechargeable portable wand can disinfect phones, tablets, and other items in less than 30 seconds.

Help her fall asleep gently with the Moon Beam Sleep Aid. Designed to aid slumber without the use of drugs, this sleek unit can be kept by the bedside from where it will project a soothing, pulsing light onto the ceiling as a guide to slow her breathing and help her drift off.

Purses have a tendency to be like the Bermuda Triangle – things just disappear, never to be found again! At least her phone will be kept fully charged with this Charging Cord Bracelet. Worn around her wrist, this trendy bracelet incorporates a charging cord so she can plug in wherever there’s a port.

If she’s suffering from hot flashes because she’s of ‘a certain age’, the Menopod will make it a much easier journey to navigate. Made to look like a computer mouse so it totally blends in, this handheld gadget will cool her down by simply holding it to the back of the neck.

Mom loves photos, but something’s keeping her from getting them off her phone and into a form she can put in her beloved photo albums. Web services don’t work. Loading them on a disc and taking them to the drugstore doesn’t work. This will work. We promise you she can do it, and she’ll be very happy.

Does your mom like to rock out in the shower? Okay, probably not. She’s probably more along the lines of listening to NPR or Prairie Home Companion while relaxing in an herbal aromatherapy bath, but either way, this Bluetooth shower speaker is totally waterproof and can make it happen.

If you have a mom who’s confused by extra wires, or always getting them crossed up or losing them, a wireless mouse is the way to go. And if you have a mom who’s getting a little older, and wants to save her hands for important things like gardening , an ergo mouse can’t be beat.

Cute, functional, and helpful to the tech-challenged. That’s what this list is all about, and that’s what this DIY is all about, too. It shows you how to make a lap desk with a storage drawer for mom to use her laptop—or even just a calculator, if that’s as far as she’s gotten—with comfort and ease.

We love this gift, because it reminds us of “back in the day” when phones had some real weight to them. The really cool thing about this one is you can put the smartphone in your pocket, hook this handset up, and walk around. We bet your mom will do it while she’s out walking the dog. Yes: she can still embarrass you.

Keep mom safe out there on the road with this awesome heads-up display technology. It’s adapted from high-tech military aircraft for use in a regular automobile. Simply plug it in, and all the information she’ll need when she’s driving is projected right in front of her.

Ironman watches started a revolution in fitness timekeeping that led us, eventually, to these newfangled Fitbit things everyone is wearing these days. The problem with them has always been their size and, frankly, their pretty ugly. Thank goodness those days are over! Get mom a good looking fitness watch that’s still just a watch.

She still has one of those enormous handbags that weighs like a hundred pounds and reminds you of a survivalist’s bug-out bag. It’s got everything she needs, including her phone, but she can never find it when it rings—this convenient light will help her get to that modern technology when she needs it.

Some people don’t realize the reason their screen is so hard to see is that it’s all dirty. It’s amazing how dusty and smudged a laptop, tablet, or phone screen can get. What’s more amazing is how great they look after you give them a clean. Show mom she can see the light again with this easy screen cleaning kit.

Emphasis on cute! This might be the simplest DIY we’ve ever come across. You might have to tell mom what a jump drive is for and how to use it when you give it to her, though. We suggest telling her it can hold a gajillion kid pictures: that will work. Once in the know, she’ll happily plug it in to her computer. Cause it’s soo cute.

She finally broke down and got herself a laptop—but if it took her this long to get one, it’s likely she won’t run out and get a case. Cut to the chase and make her this super-cool leather laptop sleeve. You’ll just need basic crafting/sewing supplies, a bit of leather, and you’re ready to go.

Mom gets the idea of the smartphone. She can even use it, when push comes to shove. Where she falls short, however, is keeping it charged. That’s where this battery comes in. Give it to her—in fact, just put is straight in her purse—and she’ll always have a charge when she needs one.

She’s got the phone, but she keeps dropping it and breaking it. We know. She even has the extra insurance, but constantly waiting for a new phone to be delivered, or even worse, going to the phone store once a week—it’s too much. That’s why she needs a tough as nails phone case like this one.

Thumbs up for this tablet stand. It might just be the reason mom rebels against tech gadgets is they’re not cute enough. Well, with this one, that can’t be an excuse any more. This one is cute, functional, and will make her smile. And on top of all that. It’s pink. Pink!

Yes, it’s a true fact that people need to use their smartphones in the winter. And they need to look good while doing it. These touch screen gloves are totally fashionable, and saves mom from the need to take off her gloves every time she needs to text her kids—which is at all times, in all weather conditions.

Finally a piece of technology that’s really worth it. Forget tablets, cell phones, tablets, wifi this and Bluetooth that. We’re taking wine, people. Mom will never have to wrestle with those confounded box wine nozzles again. We’re proud of you, junior: she raised you to know what’s important.

Even if she barely knows how to use it, she still needs to look good pretending to use it. Make this glitter phone case for mom so she can stay on the cutting edge of fashion and technology. You don’t have to tell anyone—and she doesn’t have to admit—that all she knows how to do is answer incoming calls.

We’ll kick this list off with a book that’s more emblematic of a whole range of books you can get your mom, rather than suggestion this book alone. Yes, if she has an iPhone and not a clue how to use it, get her this. But the “(Fill-in-the-blank) Books for Dummies will get her started and whatever she needs most.

Moms love taking pictures of all their loved ones. They used to get them printed and keep them in scrapbooks, but now that social media sharing is all the rage, that’s their go to spot for showing off their kiddos. This camera connects to all the big sites wirelessly and allows her to share on the spot.

There’s something about wearing a fitness tracker that’s like a public admission you’ve joined a club you don’t really want to be part of: the step-counting, calorie obsessed club. Fear not. Your mom does not have to join that club, at least publicly. This fashionable health tracker lets her do it on the down-low.

Your mom loves her iPhone but she doesn’t want to be caught walking around carrying a piece of technology. It simply won’t do. She’s far too sophisticated for that. Here’s a blinged-out iPhone carrier that will make her feel like she’s on the red carpet, even if she’s just going to the grocery store for some milk.

Since you’re the one who forced her to ditch her flip-phone from 2002 and get an iPhone, you need to be the one who gets her an iPhone cover that reminds her how awesome she is. This gift won’t make using the phone easier, per se, but it will make having the phone easier, if you know what we mean.

This gift is tailor-made the business mom on the go or the overbooked moms who always forgets to charge her phone. It’s a fashionable black bag outfitted with a battery pack and USB port that has enough power to fully recharge a dead smart phone.

This one is a double-whammy. Once you convince mom she can use a tabletin this case an iPadto access thousands of recipes on hundreds of websites, shes going to want this

Keep mom charged up when she’s out running errands with this universal car charger. It’s as easy as turning the key in the ignition. She just has to plug it in to the lighter—by the way, when was the last time anyone used a car cigarette lighter to light a cigarette—and she’s ready to get some juice.

Mom will love this phone holder because it’s not techy at all. It’s like pottery and craft time instead of chat, surf, and text time. If she doesn’t want to use it to hold her phone, then she can use it to hold her favorite picture of you. But you can say you tried.

Maybe all mom needs to get her comfortable with technology is something small. Something like this mouse pad, which has a field of stars printed on it. Who knows? If you’ve tried everything else to no avail, this DIY is easy enough to give it a shot. You really have nothing to lose.

Okay: this one is meta. Not mega, it’s meta. If your mom is not into tech but she is all about IDY projects, how about this: teach her to start her very own DIY Blog, using this tutorial. See what we mean? Teach her to jump in to the world of the internet for the sole purpose of keeping people off the internet. Now that’s totally meta.