That Real Blind Tech Show

Brian Fischler, Ed Plumacher, and Allison Meloy

A podcast Hosted by Brian Fischler, Ed Plumacher, and Allison Meloy discussing the good and bad of assistive technology for the low vision and totally blind. Key topics include Apple's VoiceOver, Amazon's VoiceView, Windows Narrator, Freedom Scientific Jaws, Described Video, and basically any product that talks to you. We are not NPR, as we are an entertainment technology show.

  1. 5 HR AGO

    Episode 201 - Stroke Man, We're All Stroked Out

    It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show as Allison, Brian, David, and Jeanine get together to discuss the latest tech news.   We start the show off answering the age old debate, what would win, an Uber Eats robot or a train?   The days of stopping at rest stops on a long road trip could be over thanks to a Chinese car company and their new patent.   Google is finally going to take action against sites that are Back Button Hijacking.   Netflix all new designed Apple TV app is a disaster.   We then talk the app that the blind community is going Ga Ga for, Orion.   If you would like to read Brian's entire article about the state of sports, Fantasy Sports, and Sports Gambling Accessibility you can read it here.   Google launched its Mac Gemini Desktop app.   Perplexity launched Personal computing on the Mac, if you want to pay for it.   Claude Mythos claims to have discovered security vulnerabilities all over the internet at every company everywhere, or is this just a PR stunt by Anthropic?   Since we discussed a lot of A.I. models here we then discuss our go to model we are using.   Apple is rumored to launch another 15 products later this year. We discuss the phones, computers, watches, Air Pods, iPads, and other rumored goodies. And Apple Glasses are rumored to be coming.   Is there any saving the disaster that Windows 11 is?   If you have not been paying attention, you may have missed that the cost of everything is going up. We start this segment off discussing the ridiculous price grab by New Jersey Transit for the World Cup. Brian then goes off on a rant that he is not from New Jersey despite what another blind tech show claims.   Netflix is raising their prices for the second time in less than two years. Add YouTube Premium as another service raising its prices. Amazon Prime Video is now calling their ad free tier Prime Video Ultra, and yup it is raising prices. And the price raising is not limited to streaming services, as Microsoft has raised prices on all their Surface Books. And if you can't beat them you might as well join them, so Samsung announced it is raising prices of its devices in the U.S.   And it is more of What's Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.   To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show as Allison, Brian, David, and Jeanine get together to discuss the latest tech news.   We start the show off answering the age old debate, what would win, an Uber Eats robot or a train?   The days of stopping at rest stops on a long road trip could be over thanks to a Chinese car company and their new patent.   Google is finally going to take action against sites that are Back Button Hijacking.   Netflix all new designed Apple TV app is a disaster.   We then talk the app that the blind community is going Ga Ga for, Orion.   If you would like to read Brian's entire article about the state of sports, Fantasy Sports, and Sports Gambling Accessibility you can read it here.   Google launched its Mac Gemini Desktop app.   Perplexity launched Personal computing on the Mac, if you want to pay for it.   Claude Mythos claims to have discovered security vulnerabilities all over the internet at every company everywhere, or is this just a PR stunt by Anthropic?   Since we discussed a lot of A.I. models here we then discuss our go to model we are using.   Apple is rumored to launch another 15 products later this year. We discuss the phones, computers, watches, Air Pods, iPads, and other rumored goodies. And Apple Glasses are rumored to be coming.   Is there any saving the disaster that Windows 11 is?   If you have not been paying attention, you may have missed that the cost of everything is going up. We start this segment off discussing the ridiculous price grab by New Jersey Transit for the World Cup. Brian then goes off on a rant that he is not from New Jersey despite what another blind tech show claims.   Netflix is raising their prices for the second time in less than two years. Add YouTube Premium as another service raising its prices. Amazon Prime Video is now calling their ad free tier Prime Video Ultra, and yup it is raising prices. And the price raising is not limited to streaming services, as Microsoft has raised prices on all their Surface Books. And if you can't beat them you might as well join them, so Samsung announced it is raising prices of its devices in the U.S.   And it is more of What's Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.   To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow

    1hr 49min

  2. 5 APR

    Episode 200: The 200th Episode Spectacular, And There's Your Show title!

    It's the That Real Blind Tech show 200th Episode spectacular, so for this huge achievement, we got the entire gang of Allison, Brian, David, Ed, and Jeanine together to talk about little tech news, and do more reflecting about the past 199 episodes.   We kick the celebration off with some pre-celebration music which then leads in to the amazing creation from M.C. Goldstein. It is sure to quickly run up the Billboard charts to number 1 if the billboard charts still exist in 2026. We know Casey Kasem would have been a huge fan.   Did we actually ever land on the Moon? We discuss the Artemis launch from this past week, and Brian's conspiracy theory about it.   The NYC MTA has found yet another way to screw with accessibility with public transportation.   You can finally change your gmail user name, but there is a catch, this feature is only available to those in the United States.   While some of us are rooting for facial recognition to come to the masses, a woman in Tennessee is definitely not one of them as police used facial recognition to arrest her and send her back to a state she claims she has never stepped foot in.   A recent study finds that LLM's will protect each other over following prompts to delete one another. Oh shit, that can't be good.   Sixty civil society organizations claim everyone on the planet will be harmed by facial recognition. Yeah, how many people with disabilities were asked about this?   We then kick off a look back down memory lane and the past 6 years and 200 episodes of That Real Blind Tech show. There's the Blind Feud, favorite moments, technology and accessibility fails, and of course the regular That Real Blind Tech Show humor. We kick the look back off with what else, but the history of how That Real Blind Tech show came to be. Next it's a special That Real Blind Tech show centric Blind Feud, followed by a bunch of questions about technology and changes over the past 200 episodes.   And it's more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading and of course the full entire Fahrvergnugen hit song. And a special homage ending.     To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow

    1hr 46min

  3. 23 MAR

    Episode 199 - Putting the Fun in CSUN!

    It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show as Allison, Brian, David, and Jeanine  tried to get together to record as usual on Zoom, but what a shit show of accessibility Zoom has become. We thought we would never be able to record again, and right before our 200th episode since we changed from That Blind Tech Show to That Real Blind Tech show.   Brian then goes in to his psychic abilities as if you listened to our last episode he was ready for a meteor to hit the Earth, and one actually did!   We then bring up the sad news about the possible demise of Innosearch.AI.   Breaking news, there are still some good people on this place we call Earth, as a 78 year old man was working as a Door Dash Driver, and a bunch of people got together, put up a Go fund Me, and the dude is now rich.     Google is rolling out free personalized intelligence to all of its United States Gemini users.   Apple announced the upcoming release of the Air Pod Max 2, but does anyone really care?   And in our second segment of does anyone care? Amazon is rumored to be working on designing an Alexa powered phone.   We then discuss That Real Blind Tech show going to Taiwan.   Brian then dives in to his full recap of this year's CSUN AT Conference. He starts off discussing his and Dr. Bryan Wolynski's presentation at this year's Conference, Artificial Intelligence, In and On Your Face. Brian then discusses all the networking he got done at this year's conference and some of the people he hung out with. He then discusses some of the companies that had a big presence at this year's Conference. We then discuss the big announcement coming out of CSUN, all the disability focused apps coming to the Meta Frames, and soon.   Brian then recaps his post-CSUN Hollywood adventures, and it is more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.   To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow

    1hr 18min

  4. 7 MAR

    Episode 198 - Don't Let Your Meta Frames Make You a Glasshole!

    It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show, as we bring you our annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference Preview with Allison, Brian, and Jeanine. However, only one of us will be making an appearance at CSUN.   Way before we get in to our CSUN coverage, we kick things off discussing how do you know when your historic unbelievable bad luck may be turning around for the better? Which then leads back to the theft and hacking Brian went through and discussing that an iPhone hacking tool is now in the hands of Russian spies.   We then discuss the bizarre story of the woman who is dealing with reverse porch piracy.   Brian then discusses finally setting up his ally Glasses and his first experiences with them.   Next up we discuss who is watching the watchers, meaning the peeps wearing the Meta Glasses. And we finally have a name for the facial Recognition feature coming to the Meta Glasses, it's called NameTag.       Which leads to us discussing Royal Caribbean banning Smart Glasses on its cruise ships.   Could using VoiceOver get you kicked off a United airlines flight soon? And here is the entire bullet point on United Airlines of something that could get you kicked off a flight that Brian could not get through. • Passengers or Passengers' Service Animals whose conduct is unlawful; indecent, lewd, or sexual in nature (including viewing offensive content); harassing; disruptive; disorderly; offensive; abusive; unsanitary; or violent.   We then dive in to our CSUN 2026 Preview as Brian will be presenting once again with Dr. Bryan Wolynski at this year's CSUN Conference on Wednesday at 11:20am, it will be one of the most entertaining sessions at this year's CSUN as they discuss Artificial Intelligence, In and On Your Face. Jeanine then fills us in on some of the big stuff coming out of Aira for this year's Conference.   Apple announced a bunch of new products this week, but are any of them worth getting? We start discussing the new M5 Mac Book Pro.  But Allison roles us right on it to the new M5 Mac book Air, as she feels that is the computer in the Mac line up to get. Which then rolls us in to discussing the new Mac Neo versus a Mac Air. Apple also released the budget friendly iPhone 17E.   We then dive in to the Apple 26 feature for the phone app to go unified or old school.   We then discuss two new iPhone apps for the blind Curb to Car and Vision AI Assistant. Are they ready for prime time?   Google Gemini has now joined a lot of the other ChatBots as they have been hit with their first wrongful death suit.   We then discuss the troubling news of what the Department of Defense is doing to Anthropic, and what this could mean for tech companies in the future.   And it's more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.   To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow

    1hr 32min

  5. 18 FEB

    Episode 197 - Air Pod Colonoscopy

    It's an all new That Real Blind Tech show as Brian, David, Ed, and Jeanine gather around to discuss the latest greatest tech news.   We kick the show off discussing the bizarre week down in El Paso, Texas.   Then it is the return of the popular That Real Blind Tech show Feud as we ask our contestants what are Door Dash Drivers now getting paid to do?   We then discuss a CNN article about Menfluencers filming themselves hitting on women. Will this ruin Smart Glasses for the blind? And how in the world is CNN's accessibility so awful in 2026?   A new dating app called Score is using credit scores to make its matches.       Next we discuss the new Be My Eyes Workplace.   We then discuss using What Three Words with Aira.   We then do the That Real Blind Tech show version of Double Tap as we play some emails we received after the last episode.   We then discuss the possibility of Facial Recognition coming to the Meta Glasses, and how the media has approached this story.   Claude's new free version can now connect to several apps and help you create all kinds of documents.   We then dive in to the bizarre article about people going on dates with A.I. chat bots. Seriously, we are not making this up, it is happening right here in New York City!   How shocking the new Smarter Siri is rumored to be delayed yet again. And the next Gen Air Pod Pros 4 are rumored to have cameras built in to them.   And it's the return of What's Pissing Off Brian Now and more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.   To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow

    1hr 39min

  6. 26 JAN

    Episode 196 - The Security Episode: The theft, The Debacle, and The Solution

    It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show with Allison, Brian, David, and Jeanine. This episode is a tad different then our usual episodes, as we focus on iPhone security, as Brian shares the disaster he has been going through after being robbed.   This episode is not for the faint at heart, as we kick the show off discussing how to kill a rogue A.I.   We are approaching the Justice Department's deadline for all U.S. State and Local Government websites needing to be accessible as of April 24, 26. Do you think it will happen?   After being discussed on our CES recap episode, David went out and placed his order for the Lumen Glasses, no not those, the other glasses, the RockIt Glasses.   We announce the all new The all Blind Fantasy Baseball League will be relaunching this season. If you want to play Fantasy Baseball with us on Yahoo Fantasy, email us in at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com.   We then dive in to the disaster that Brian has been dealing with for the past ten days. Yes, his iPhone was stolen, but that is where the nightmare only begins. You will have to hear it to hear what happened and how to prepare and prevent something like this from happening to you.   And after we terrify you, it's more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.   To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow

    1hr 57min

  7. 11 JAN

    Episode 195 - CES 26: Hard Tech and Soft Balls

    It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show with Allison, Brian, David, and Jeanine. We kick the year off with yet another show that goes off the rails fairly often. Boy would we have gotten canceled if we left the outakes in!   We kick the show off discussing the worst houseguest or squatter of all time!   We then discuss the six personality traits people who are cool have globally.   We then play and discuss a clip from WFAN about Stevie Wonder.   It's great to learn that luxury goods are now made as crappy as everything else. We discuss the state of products with a focus on the quality of the Meta Glasses.   Have you ever wanted to turn your iPhone in to a Blackberry? Well now you can with the Clicks Power keyboard.   The new horror film A24 turns podcasts in to the new Nightmare on Elm Street.   Did you know there is such a thing as gifted dogs?    We then dive in to our annual CES coverage, starting out discussing what else, but Smart Glasses. The first pair we discuss is the latest coming from Rokid. And a lot of us are interested in the Rocked Glasses, but not the Lumen Glasses out of Romania that are specifically designed for the blind. We do not give a great review of the Lumen Glasses, trust me, you will want to hear it. So if the Lumen Glasses are not for you, how about a pair of Smart glasses with Pet Translation?   Razer is developing a pair of Smart Headphones with cameras.   A blind developer has developed a haptic wristband that will decode facial expressions.   Because most of us are Apple users, we discuss the best Mac and iOS accessories announced at CES.   And then it is finally time to discuss the strangers weirdest things coming out of CES this year.   We then discuss the WTF robots that were announced at CES.   And it's more of Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading.   And you will want to stay to the very end to hear about the lawsuit that is currently taking place.   To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow , or leave us an old school phone message at 929-367-1005.

    1hr 43min

  8. 28/12/2025

    Episode 194 - That Real Blind Tech Show Year End Spectacular, It's Real and It's Spectacular

    It's an all new That Real Blind Tech Show as Allison, Brian, David, and Ed get together for the That Real Blind Tech Show year end spectacular. Jeanine was suppose to join us but she forgot how to read and tell time.   We kick the show off discussing the announcement that The Rolling Stones have canceled their 2026 worldwide tour, and it is for the most unlikely reason.   We then move on to discussing the news that iOS 26.3 will bring AirPod like pairing to third party devices in the EU> Oh no.   Waymo's go bonkers in San Francisco Blackout.   We then tackle the yearly discussion of Don't Get Scrooged with scams this holiday season.   We then discuss how Roomba invented the smart vaccum and lost the future.   We then dive in the Instacart debacle that Instacart has been using A.I. and dynamic pricing to charge different customers different prices on the same item. Which then led to lawmakers looking in to taking action against Instacart. After a really bad ten days for Instacart, they claim they have ended using their A.I  dynamic pricing program.   We then dive in to our year end review spectacular portion of the show, starting off with discussing the new internet slang that Gen-Z gave us in 2025.   Next up we discuss the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Apple in 2025. Next up we discuss what could have been one of google's worst years, turned in to one of its best. We then discuss how A.I. broke the smart home in 2025.    We then get personal with you starting out with our favorite tech innovations and products of 2025. Next we discuss our biggest tech disappointments for the year. We then discuss a couple of personal goals we were proud of in 2025. And it wouldn't be a year end review if we didn't discuss our regrets for the year. And we end discussing what we are looking forward to in 2026.   And it's more of What's Pissing Off Brian Now and Watcha Streaming, Watcha Reading end of year style.   To contact That Real Blind Tech Show, you can email us at ThatRealBlindTechShow@gmail.com, join our Facebook Group That Real Blind Tech Show, join us on the Twitter @BlindTechShow , or leave us an old school phone message at 929-367-1005.

    1hr 49min
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A podcast Hosted by Brian Fischler, Ed Plumacher, and Allison Meloy discussing the good and bad of assistive technology for the low vision and totally blind. Key topics include Apple's VoiceOver, Amazon's VoiceView, Windows Narrator, Freedom Scientific Jaws, Described Video, and basically any product that talks to you. We are not NPR, as we are an entertainment technology show.

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  • Creator
    Brian Fischler, Ed Plumacher, and Allison Meloy
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    That Real Blind Tech Show

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