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. topics. We start off discussing the Godfather of Google A.I . leaving the company to warn the world about t...
May 05, 2023•1 hr 6 min
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 find out why Shaun prefers the PC and Jaws over the Mac and VoiceOver. As a fellow podcaster first on RNIB T...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 12 min
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 Find My keeps sending people to the same dudes house. Next up we discuss Brian discussing the Be My Eyes Vi...
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr 20 min
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 her home in Vancouver to Turkey with her Guide Dog Lemon and the misadventures that ensued. The flight there sta...
Apr 08, 2023•44 min
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 trip with a refusal and ending it with a refusal in the cab line at LaGuardia. Brian then talks about so...
Apr 01, 2023•56 min
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 for the early stages of the Virtual Volunteer. We discuss the closed beta and when people may expect the Vir...
Mar 25, 2023•27 min
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 Virtual Volunteer. Chat GPT4 has been released with a lot of improvements. And we discuss the former Siri ...
Mar 23, 2023•58 min
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 never ever thought we would discuss on That Real Blind Tech Show, professional mascots, as Mike was a p...
Mar 19, 2023•49 min
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 Consultant. Justin tells us a little about his presentation at this year’s Axe-Con. His presentation ...
Mar 13, 2023•1 hr 3 min
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 Alarm will require a subscription for basic features users have been getting for free for years. Are you ...
Mar 05, 2023•1 hr 20 min
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 curriculumn at Clusiv. We then find out what barriers Clusiv faces from the state agencies, and what some ...
Feb 27, 2023•1 hr 3 min
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 February. And it’s not just the assistive tech companies that are raising prices, as we discuss the ann...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 33 min
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 the museums in New York City that the blind and visually impaired can go to and put their hands on som...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 12 min
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 cane compared to walking with a guide dog. Navilens is partnering with Kellogg to bring accessibility ...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 9 min
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 of Aira, and Jeanine Stanley Aira’s Social Media Manager. Troy and Jeanine walk Brian through the new pri...
Jan 10, 2023•58 min
It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Kicking off the New Year, Brian and Ed welcome in Dr. Joel Snyder, from Audio Description associates and the Founder of the Audio Description Project. We start the interview finding out how Joel started working in audio description. Joel explains what the early days of audio description was like including how difficult it was to convey what audio description actually was when people had no clue what it was. We find out that a certain somebody who the Fo...
Jan 06, 2023•1 hr 22 min
It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Join us as Brian sits down with Shush Mittal and Smit Patel the creators and developers behind the upcoming Celeste Smart Glasses coming in 2023. Brian is very excited for the release of these smart glasses that have partnered with Seeing AI. Shush starts off describing what the Celeste Smart Glasses will be able to do and tells us about how the guys came up with the concept of the glasses. The guys explain what the main differences are between the Cele...
Dec 30, 2022•26 min
It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. The gang starts off discussing the announcement that Microsoft Soundscape will be going bye bye in 2023. We then discuss what our go to GPS app will be. These people took crash detection to a whole new level! If you had smart toilet on your holiday wish list, it may be waiting for you underneath your tree. And Brian thought he had it bad for a bit with his Door Dash deliveries. Wait until you hear about this guy and his issue with an Amazon delivery . W...
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 13 min
It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. We gathered Allison, Brian and Ed to talk about the latest tech news going around. We start off discussing a tweet about our last episode, And Everything. Drink! You may have heard that Aira will be under going some changes . We discuss what has been announced so far. Menus4All has launched as a paid subscription app, will you be getting it? If you live in New York City and are searching for a job, maybe this one is for you . Airplane mode to become a t...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 17 min
It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show, and it is amazing how often podcasts imitate life. On our last episode we discussed the blind woman who was not allowed on an Air Canada flight with her guide dog. Well, Brian just was extremely hassled by JetBlue when checking in for his most recent flight about his guide dog and new policies that JetBlue has initiated for people traveling with guide dogs. Amazingly, it is not JetBlue’s responsibility to alert you of these new regulations, you are just...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 7 min
It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. The entire gang is here in their lair of choice. We start off discussing the upcoming Sight Tech Global, as Brian will be the Host of this year’s Virtual Conference which you can register for free to attend here . Air Canada is the latest airline to make a blind person’s life absolutely miserable while traveling with their guide dog. Will the airlines ever get it? It happened a week ago, but we dive in to the blindness communities reaction to the entire...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 8 min
It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech show. Brian and Ed welcome in friend of the podcast David Goldstein to the podcast. David just popped in to NYC to join Brian and Ed at Laugh For Sight at Gotham Comedy Club on October 24th, so we thought we would have David on to help us recap the long awaited return of Laugh For Sight. This year’s benefit was absolutely epic and featured Legendary Comedian Robert Klein, Aaron Berg, Ophira Eisenberg, Joe Derosa, Andy Fiori, Boris Khaykin, along with Host and...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 31 min
Now that we have gotten past our massive 100th episode celebration, it is back to podcasting as the entire That Real Blind Tech Show gang gets together to recap the latest tech news. We start off with a mention that the All Blind Fantasy Football League Mini Documentary has an imdb page . We start off with a congratulations as one of us lives in the filthiest talking city in the world. And its not NYC! Wasn’t the whole point of streaming no ads? Well get ready for ads coming to AppleTV. Is anyon...
Oct 15, 2022•1 hr 25 min
We begin the final part of our massive 100th episode clip show celebration with the gang styling and freestylng on Episode 71. With the huge success of the NumPad Commander a listener requested a demo of the keyboard commander which arrived on episode 72. Episode 74 was our attempt of multiple host interviewing multiple guests about this year’s CSUn, and the new tech center at the Lighthouse Guild, and also saw the return of friend of the podcast, Dr. Bryan Wolynski. Episode 75 brought Aira CEO ...
Oct 07, 2022•1 hr 46 min
We start off our 100th Anniversary Episode part 4 Clip show with the developer of AirBuddy Guide Rambo. Episode 51 brought the Fantastic Foursome all together on the same episode for the first time with Allison, Brian, Ed, and jeanine for what do you expect but an Apple event recap. Episode 52 brought skateboarder Justin Bishop to the show. Episode 54 brought us therapist and Author Rebecca Alexander and Inspiration porn. Episode 55 brought former guest Joe Steinkamp in as a co-host to discuss a...
Oct 06, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Welcome to part three of the That Real Blind Tech show 100th Episode clip show. We start off at episode 31, which was an absolutely classic recording. Episode 32 brought in comedian friend and former Warm Up Comedian at The Late Show with David Letterman, Eddie Brill. Episode 33 brought us the first Brian flying solo episode and our first demo which was Amazon Prime and Audio Description. Episode 34 was the first of our only two part episode as it brought Legendary Comedian and Laugh For Sight H...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 7 min
It’s a continuation celebration for our 100th episode, as we present you with The Clip Show Part Two. This episode starts off at the beginning of 2021, as we welcome our good friend Allison Meloy full time to the podcast. Allison was a regular guest on iAccessVO and joined us here regularly starting with episode 14. Our next few guests included Greg Stilson from The American Printing House for the Blind, Steve Ewell from The Consumer Technology Association, and Shaun Eli comedian friend of Brian...
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr 14 min
Join us for a stroll down memory lane. In honor of the 100th episode of That Real Blind Tech show, it is our absolutely epic five part clip show. You will laugh, you will cry, you will learn, ok, so maybe there will be no crying, but we can guarantee a few laughs along this stroll down memory lane. The clip show starts off with Brian babbling on about what the new show will be, then Ed pops in as Brian quickly realized he is better with Ed then without him. Our first few guests you hear include ...
Oct 03, 2022•1 hr 5 min
It’s an all new That Real Blind Tech Show. We are here primarily this episode to discuss iOS 16.0.2 and new Apple products. It is an Ed less and Jeanine less show as TJ Meloy joined Brian and Allison in their isolated lairs to discuss our new products and thoughts. We start off discussing the 40 year anniversary of the first emoji being sent and how that day began the descent of modern civilization. Is anyone surprised or shocked at the lengths Facebook is going to to keep on tracking all of us ...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 32 min
It’s a fully packed That Real Blind Tech show lair as the entire gang is here to discuss and recap in our own way the Apple Far Out event. We start off discussing the name of the event and the new Apple emergency S.O.S. for when you are stuck in the middle of nowhere or Ohio. We discuss our issues getting the event to play in Apple TV, and the opening video to the event. We then get our iOS 16 beta testers opinion of whether or not you should install iOS 16 on the September 12th release date . W...
Sep 10, 2022•1 hr 30 min
