That Real Blind Tech Show

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show and ICantCU Combo Podcast, as our friend David Goldstein joins Brian and Ed at the NFB Conference 2023 to recap our three day experience at this year's conference. We recorded this podcast at two in the morning, so we may sound a little tired, and since we were all in the same room, we apologize for the issues with Ed's mic. Of course with technology, it w...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show as Brian and Ed sit down with Mike May at the National Federation of the Blind 2023 Conference in Houston, Texas. Our apologies for our tech issue as even though we tested it, Ed's mic was not hot, so his mic quality is not what you are used to on That Real Blind Tech Show.     Mike discusses using the Good Maps app to get around the Conference and find pl...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Join Allison, Brian, and Ed as they discuss the latest in tech news.   We start off discussing a follow up article from two episodes ago, as we may be getting the fight of the century !   A New York City man attempted to drive his car in to Google's Headquarters as he claimed that Google had been torturing him for years, and no, it was not Brian.   Flight...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian welcomes in Aaron Hale, a motivational speaker, extreme athlete, business entrepreneur, and a Blind Veteran.   We kick the interview off with Aaron telling us how he was blinded in combat as Aaron was in the army and an explosives expert. We find out what it feels like to approach an explosive device, and Aaron shares with us the incident that blind...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. Allison, Brian, and Jeanine sit down to recap all the announcements we got at WWDC23.   Even though it is almost an all Apple show, we kick things off discussing a very funny article about Zuckhead .   Unless you have been living underneath a rock, by the way who actually lives underneath a rock? The expression had to come from somewhere. By now you have...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show demo. Brian is flying solo and doing a demo of some new features to the fantastic iOS downcast app.     Brian talks about his history with the Downcast app and why people are flocking away from the Castro podcast player.   Brian starts the demo off exploring the Downcast podcast tab, and shows off some of the individual podcast customization settings. Bria...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. We finally found Ed, he's in Italy. Ed pops on to tell us why in the world he is in Italy. Also joining us on this episode from Italy is Amanda Maxson, a member of the New York City Blind Baseball team.   We start things off with Amanda explaining to us how she got involved with blind baseball, and what the American team is doing in Italy. Amanda tells us...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian is flying solo but is joined by the developers, the C.E.O. Michael and C.T.O. Vincent of the fantastic new app OkO Co-Pilot For the Blind.   Brian kicks things off with finding out what the OkO app is all about, and how the app works. Vincent then tells us what the development process of the app was like.   We find out the meaning of the name OkO an...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. On this episode it's Brian and just his gal pals, Allison and Jeanine.   We start off discussing the in product for this summer, blow up hot tubs.   We then begin talking about what else, but A.I., and how in a few years we may be able to talk to and understand what animals are saying .   With everything being A.I. focused these days, is Apple being left...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. Brian is flying solo as he welcomes back Mike Buckley, CEO of Be My Eyes.   With the Be My Eyes Virtual Volunteer rapidly evolving, Brian and Mike sat down to discuss how the app has been improving,, how the feedback from the closed beta group has been, and what's up next for the Be My Eyes Virtual Volunteer.   We discuss the call to action that Elon Musk...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Allison, Brian, and Ed gather around the campfire to discuss the latest tech topics. How odd as a lot of it has to do with A.I.   It is being reported that some visually impaired iOS 16.4.1 are having only 30 days in every month . While we could not reproduce this issue we thought it was still worth talking about.   We then dive in to all the hot A.I. top...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. Brian and Ed welcome fellow podcaster Shaun Preece to the show for another Trendsetters episode.   We start off learning how Shaun went blind and how his journey to Blind Tech Podcaster God began. Next we dive in to Shaun's first experiences with assistive technology.   Shaun then hits us with a classic #EBB Embarrassally Blind Blunder   story.   Next we...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show as the whole gang is back together for the first time in awhile. We allow you behind the curtain as we leave in some of our pre-show recording as we discuss food delivery services and tipping.   Allison then hits us with an absolute shocker during our intros.   Once we finally get going we start off discussing the strange story where in Houston Apple's Fin...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show as Brian and Ed welcome in Sam Nikmanesh   to discuss a story that is more harrowing than any other   story we have ever discussed on the show.   We start off finding out from Sam what it is like to start going blind while living in Iran, and what kind of services there are for people in Iran who are blind.     Sam tells us about her recent travels from he...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. Allison, Brian, and Jeanine get together for a different kind of conversation, not a tech conversation but rather a discussion about Blind Justice.   We start off with Brian's latest Uber guide dog refusal experience. Allison and Jeanine chime in with their most recent Uber refusals due to traveling with a guide dog. Brian then tells about starting his tr...

It is an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian is flying solo as Host, and is joined by Hans Jorgen Wiberg, Founder of Be My Eyes   and Mike Buckley CEO, Be My Eyes.   We start off finding out how the connection with Be My Eyes and Open AI originated. We find out what some early beta testers are saying about the Virtual Volunteer experience.   We discuss what seems like endless possibilities fo...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. Allison, Brian, Jeanine, and Bryan Wolynski get together to discuss the latest tech news and recap this year's CSUN Conference.   We kick things off discussing Senator Markey's call for Elon Musk to bring back Twitter's accessibility team .   Next we discuss the huge announcement out of Be My Eyes that they are using Chat GPT4 to help create an all new Vi...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian and Ed welcome Mike Walsh, Founder of Flight For Sight to the show.   We kick things off discussing Mike's back story being diagnosed with Usher's Syndrome in his twenties, and how Ushers began to change his life in his thirties. The three of us then compare notes about when we put the car keys down for the last time.   We then dive in to a topic we...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. Brian and Ed welcome in Justin Yarbrough from Deque Systems. Justin will be presenting at this year's all virtual Axe-Con taking place on March 15 and 16th. You can register to attend the conference here.   We kick the interview off learning a little bit about Justin's backstory. Justin then explains to us what he does at Deque Systems as an Accessibility...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show as Allison, Brian, and Jeanine are together to discuss the latest tech and AI headlines.   We kick the show off discussing why in the world you would want to use a physical pass key . Then move on to discuss the recently released Victor Reader Stream 3 .   Is Tick Tock really a threat to the United States national security?   Starting later this month Ring...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Join Brian and Ed as they sit down with Blake Steinecke, Growth Manager and Luke Simianer, CEO of Clusiv.   We start off with Luke explaining to us what Clusiv is all about and how the company got its start. We then get a little background on Blake and find out what he does as the Growth Manager at Clusiv.   Luke then explains to us how they design the cu...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show with a fully over packed studio as the entire gang of Allison, Brian, Ed, and Jeanine are all together for the first time in 2023.   We start off discussing the price changes coming to the Envision Glasses. Jeanine then fills us in about the latest announcement coming out of Aira about extra minutes and the special that will continue to run to the end of F...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Ed and Brian welcome Nefertiti Matos Olivares to the show. Not only is Nefertiti a fellow blind New Yorker, she works in one of our favorite industries, Audio Description.   We start off discussing one of the many hats Nefertiti wears, that of a Cultural Accessibility Consultant, and find out what the role involves. Nefertiti then tells us about a few of...

It is an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian and Ed are joined by Dr. Bryan Wolynski, CTO Lighthouse Guild to discuss this year's CES conference that Bryan attended in Las Vegas.   We start the show discussing an Australian visually impaired woman being refused a drink at an Australian hotel. This leads to a conversation about why the general public treats people differently that use a white...

It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian and Allison are joined by friend of the podcast David Goldstein to discuss the new price plans announced by Aira today.     Allison, Brian and David discuss their first thoughts after reading about the new price plans, retail prices, and having to call customer care to find out what your price plan will be.   Next Brian welcomes in Troy Otillio, CEO...