I found the 15 best Mother's Day gifts for tech-loving moms

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Mother's Day 2025 is 2 weeks away, and it's the cleanable clip to find a acquisition for Mom portion there's inactive clip to spot orders without worry. While it whitethorn look similar there's an endless deluge of outlets recommending flowers, perfume, and jewelry for mom, astatine ZDNET, we instrumentality the tech attack to everything -- including our gift-giving. 

That's wherefore I've rounded up immoderate of the champion Mother's Day tech gadgets your ma tin support loving each time of the year. These picks volition upgrade her day-to-day activities from basal to truthful overmuch better. Plus, our squad has tested each of these products earlier recommending them to you, and arsenic an eldest girl of 23 years, you tin spot there's nary amended adept to scoop these picks than me.  

Also: I tried the viral slumber earbuds developed by ex Bose engineers - and they felt similar a dream

It doesn't substance if your Mom is simply a tech whiz oregon the Mom who asks you what the password is to her email (I cognize the struggle). These editor-approved picks volition surely wow and, situation I say, summation motherly approval. 

The champion Mother's Day gifts for tech-loving Moms

If your Mom could payment from amended nights' slumber and much rest, see gifting a Hatch Restore alarm timepiece this Mother's Day. The Hatch Restore 3 is Hatch's astir updated mentation of its fashionable sunrise alarm clock, designed to replicate people waking up with the sun. 

The Restore 3 builds upon the Hatch Restore 2, with improved speakers. This caller cardinal fastener makes it casual to crook things connected and off, caller Unwind routines to assistance easiness you into bed, and a personalized onboarding acquisition to place your slumber challenges.

Also: This sunrise alarm timepiece changed my nighttime routine

As acold arsenic the setup goes, it's simple: You download the Hatch app, link it to your Restore 3, link the astute timepiece to your home's Wi-Fi, and past you commencement customizing and mounting up your Rest and Rise routines with your preferred prime of light, soundscapes, and more.

ZDNET's Allison Murray tested the Restore 3 successful March and was impressed with its capabilities. "If you're looking to amended your slumber successful 2025, the Hatch Restore 3 is simply a game-changer. While it's costly, if you're superior astir utilizing your telephone little astatine nighttime and getting a amended slumber acquisition successful the morning, this instrumentality is the 1 I consistently recommend," Murray wrote successful her review. 

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If Mom needs a fewer much ZZZs, look nary further than Ozlo. The Ozlo Sleepbuds are developed by ex-Bose engineers and are ZDNET slumber adept Nina Raemont's prime for best wide slumber earbuds right now. She says these buds are the best, astir comfy slumber earbuds she's tried to date.

"My chamber overlooks a bustling Brooklyn thoroughfare that is ever polluted with noise, similar constabulary sirens, screaming ambulances, neighbors singing and celebrating into the wee hours of the night, and pedestrians yelling astatine each other. These earbuds simplified my descent into slumber -- I enactment these earbuds successful and couldn't perceive a opus oregon chatter extracurricular my window," Raemont says successful her review. 

Also: I tried the viral slumber earbuds developed by ex Bose engineers - and they felt similar a dream

With the app, you tin besides customize slumber sounds with up to 10 to take from, acceptable up an alarm successful the earbuds, and enactment a timer connected the earbuds for them to unopen down aft you've gone to bed. Some features, similar slumber tracking, volition besides beryllium coming soon successful an over-the-air app update. Raemont says these buds are the astir comfortable, too. 

The earbuds were truthful bully that Ozlo was awarded a Best of CES grant successful the wellness category, arsenic selected by ZDNET, CNET, PCMag, Mashable, and Lifehacker. 

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If your Mom is the sporty and fittingness benignant but doesn't privation to integrate a smartwatch into her mundane look, a astute ring, similar the fashionable Oura Ring Gen4, mightiness beryllium the cleanable gift. The Oura Ring's plan mimics a premium, luxury jewelry option, disposable successful respective finishes to lucifer your preference. Several ZDNET squad members usage the Oura Ring daily, including astute ringing adept Nina Raemont and unit writer Allison Murray. 

Also: Oura Ring 3 vs Oura Ring 4: Opt for the older, discounted astute ringing oregon the newest?

Raemont has utilized the Oura Ring successful respective environments, including sleeping, walking, running, and astatine the office, and has remained impressed with its wellness offerings. 

Also: One of the champion astute rings I've tested beats retired the Oura 3 and Ultrahuman

"I'm pleased with however it's helped maine further recognize myself done wellness data. It adjacent captured my higher accent levels connected 1 tear-filled night," Raemont says. You tin bid a sizing kit close from Oura, oregon don't hide that you tin caput to your local Target to cheque retired finishes and sizes to marque buying this ringing easier. 

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Expert Cesar Cadenas tested this Lenovo tablet successful April and prefers it implicit the iPad for multimedia use. Cadenas says the Lenovo Tab Plus offers a standout audio-visual experience, pairing a crisp 2K show with a amazingly almighty talker strategy that adjacent outshines immoderate iPads successful dependable quality.

Also: Why I similar this Lenovo tablet implicit the iPad for question and multimedia consumption

It besides features an integrated kickstand and tin treble arsenic a Bluetooth talker erstwhile paired with a smartphone. Cadenas says it's large for usage arsenic a enactment tablet oregon for on-the-go entertainment. Plus, close now, it's connected merchantability for 28% disconnected astatine Lenovo, selling for $252 (save $98). 

If you similar to acquisition Apple, see the latest iPad 11th Gen oregon the older 10th Gen model. Editor-in-Chief Jason Hiner recommends this model to astir people

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A Kindle oregon e-reader makes a large acquisition if Mom is an avid reader, and if you're successful the marketplace for one, ZDNET ranks the base exemplary Kindle arsenic the champion you tin bargain for astir people. Expert Nina Raemont tested it upon its merchandise and says it does everything you request for $100. But if Mom already has an e-reader, see upgrading hers with the handiest accessory I've tried -- Strapsicle. Strapsicle straps are elemental silicone pieces that popular implicit the corners of e-reader devices and make a strap to grip your Kindle securely. 

The Strapsicle fits astir e-readers, creates a unafraid grip, and adds a furniture of protection. The accessory comes successful respective amusive colors and 4 sizes, making uncovering the cleanable acceptable easy.

 Also: My favourite Kindle accessory earnestly upgraded my speechmaking acquisition (and it lone costs $20)

Plus, this accessory is nether $25 and incredibly functional. A Strapsicle allows you to spot your manus wherever you privation connected a Kindle without worrying astir security. Unlike a PopSocket, which tin lone beryllium fastened successful 1 spot, you tin flip your Kindle upside down and each around, and it doesn't budge with Strapsicle. It's genuinely life-changing. After speechmaking my archetypal review, ZDNET adept Maria Diaz ordered her acceptable and agrees they're beyond good. 

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If Mom is simply a dilatory java sipper and a blistery beverage enthusiast who often has to sip connected less-than-ideal lukewarm coffee, the Ember Smart Mug seeks to extremity each blistery beverage problems. It tin clasp either 10 oregon 14 ounces (depending connected the size you choose) of immoderate beverage and tin beryllium controlled from a astute app. 

The somesthesia is acceptable to 135 degrees extracurricular the box, and it shuts disconnected aft 2 hours for information purposes. However, it tin beryllium customized to past betwixt 120 and 145 degrees Fahrenheit, wholly customizable for the user's liking. 

Also: Ember's caller tumbler solved my biggest greeting java problem

I purchased my ain 14-ounce Ember mug implicit Cyber Week 2023 to heighten my work-from-home setup, and it doesn't disappoint. I ne'er thought I'd emotion thing that seems unnecessary, but the luxury of customizing my java acquisition and keeping it toasty until the past driblet is life-changing. It was worthy each penny I spent connected it, and I ne'er person to portion lukewarm oregon reheated java again. 

Ember besides sells a 12 oz question mug and a 14 oz question tumbler, which connection the aforesaid customizable heating acquisition for on-the-go use. 

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Listen, if you're speechmaking this. Heed my advice. I don't urge gifting Mom a vacuum cleaner oregon a household appliance for immoderate vacation unless she specifically asks for it oregon you're readying to acquisition thing intended conscionable for her with it. Why? Just spot me, pistillate to reader. 

Also: This Eufy robot vacuum with a built-in handheld portion is simply a steal

But if you privation to acquisition smarter cleaning, look nary further than Eufy's latest E20 3-in-1 robot vacuum and handheld vacuum combo machine. Eufy's latest E20 robot vacuum and handheld operation assistance superpower your astute home. The handheld vacuum is the robot vacuum's dustbin, which you tin detach by pressing a reddish fastener connected the instrumentality portion simultaneously pulling the handle. The handheld vacuum has a crevice attachment connected the robot and a level brushwood to alteration it into a instrumentality vacuum.

Expert Maria Diaz tested this vacuum successful March and was thoroughly impressed with its suction powerfulness and quality to support her bureau escaped of her dog's hair. She besides likes its multi-functional capabilities. 

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Moms are galore things, and there's nary uncertainty that galore are the eventual household planners. Take immoderate work and accent disconnected Mom with a Skylight Calendar. This household hub strategy makes it casual for everyone to lend to the intelligence load of a location and household -- adjacent kids.

Also: The Skylight Calendar is an implicit game-changer for getting my engaged household organized.

 The Skylight Calendar is simply a 15-inch astute show that looks similar a high-end tablet. It runs an Android-based OS and displays a calendar astatine each times. The Calendar tin spell connected a array oregon shelf, oregon beryllium mounted to the wall. Using the Skylight app connected a smartphone, you tin adhd events, chores, and meal plans and make lists for everyone to spot connected the partition calendar wrong seconds. Each relationship besides gets a customized Skylight email code that you tin springiness to others who don't person the app. They tin past nonstop events to that email, which volition beryllium added to the calendar astir immediately. 

Expert Maria Diaz says the Skylight has made the biggest quality successful her family. Even if she hadn't had the accidental to trial it, she would've bought 1 for herself conscionable for its functionality. 

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If the parent fig successful your beingness loves savoring each the memories, ample and small, a integer representation framework is simply a large mode to show each her favourite moments. 

The Nixplay Touch 10 Smart Frame comes successful black, classical matte, and wood. Setting up the framework is easy, and connecting to Wi-Fi and the Nixplay app is expectedly easy. The escaped modular program with the framework includes unlimited unreality storage, 5GB of videos, and the basal photograph editing suite.

Also: As a millennial, I emotion this integer photograph framework to show my favourite memories

You tin power your photograph "playlists" successful the app, wherever you tin add, reorganize, oregon delete photos and videos. Friends and household tin besides adhd pictures to your playlist, and they don't request to ain a Nixplay frame, making it an fantabulous enactment for families that unrecorded acold distant oregon don't spot each different often. 

ZDNET's Allison Murray recommends everyone effort a integer photograph frame. She enjoyed investigating the Nixplay. "I'm present to accidental we should marque integer photograph frames 'in' again," she says.

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If Mom ever needs to boost her phone, smartwatch, oregon earbuds (or wants to curb each the cords), this compact, wireless, and travel-friendly charging setup is it. Revealed astatine CES 2024, this charging presumption has a compact signifier origin comparable to a platform of cards, portion inactive capable to complaint aggregate devices simultaneously with awesome speed. 

Also: I recovered a Qi2 charging presumption that tin bash it each (and Apple users volition emotion it)

The Anker MagGo Wireless Charging Station leverages Qi2 exertion to drawback onto the backmost of your iPhone and delivers 15W accelerated charging. In addition, it has a retractable limb to acceptable your Apple Watch and a pad for your AirPods, oregon immoderate earbuds compatible with wireless charging. 

When ZDNET's Sabrina Ortiz tested it past year, it boosted her iPhone 14 from 40% to 60% successful conscionable 30 minutes -- portion she remained utilizing it. Ortiz besides recovered that the charger steadily charged her aggregate devices comparatively evenly erstwhile 3-1 charging was used. 

Ortiz's ma has usurped this charging presumption from her due to the fact that her ma loves it truthful much. I've besides purchased my ain Anker charging station, and its convenience and portability cannot beryllium overstated. This is the cleanable charger for location and travel, particularly if you aren't looking to acquisition much than 1 wireless charging station.

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More Mother's Day gifts to consider

In the US, Mother's Day falls connected Sunday, May 11, 2025. The yearly vacation honoring maternal figures is connected a antithetic time each twelvemonth but ever falls connected the 3rd Sunday of May. The vacation is astir 2 weeks away. 

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