Be My Eyes Expands to Huawei Smartphones, Meta Gives Smart Glasses To Blind Veterans & Hapware Wearable Coming Soon

Hey guys, welcome along to another episode of Double Tap. Today we're going to talk about a wearable that can detect your face. This is Double Tap, where blind people talk tech. Here's Steven Scott and Sean Breeze.

Slightly aggressive there, Steven Scott. What's wrong with that? It can detect your face. Okay, I am wearing a face today, so I should be okay.

Okay, well, I'm not wearing your face. That's a bit of silence of the lambs. I mean, I have got my face on. But Michael Myers, if you ask me.

What are you talking about? Yeah, I'm talking about Hapware. This is a technology that was on show at CSUN this year. And a really interesting piece of tech where it's awareable.

You might remember we talked about this. It was a wearable that connects to your meta Ray-Ban glasses. And it can detect through the camera and the glasses, You can detect smiles, waves,

anger, annoyance, trying, frowning disappointment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All of which you can find in a marriage. Wow.

Just checking the ones around. Okay. Yeah, thank goodness she doesn't listen to this, I'll tell you. But hey, I mean, all the, it's a cool idea though, isn't it?

I mean, it's a pretty smart idea. It's important to know the emotions of the person talking to Steven Scott. I mean, we lose all the visual cues, right? We lose eye contact, we lose any visual cues. Is it important that those are replaced? Steven Scott? Answer please.

Yes. Thank you very much. Well, we'll find out later on. 27 emotions. Is there such a thing? I mean, I'm just a simple man. I'm hungry or happy or sad. Is that not enough? Yeah. I remember there was an image I remember at school of the ascent of man. Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah.

It was like the monkey and then there was the chimpanzee and then there was the next thing up and then yes Well, then there was like something yourself a whole here. I mean, you can't remember what the stages were. Yeah, I remember it was that. I think I'm number two in that scale.

I think I'm number two. Oh, are you? Well, barely upright. You never get out of that chair, I've noticed lately. Or go outside, apparently. What's going on?

No, my family were over at the weekend and they said, you're all right, Steve, you're a bit white looking. And I said, yeah, I am Casper, the ghost at the moment. I'm outside, but I see sunshine on my face.

That's called a coder suntan. A coder suntan, yeah. Never see sunlight again. I'm waiting for someone to say, have you gone gothic?

No, no, no, no, not yet. Yeah, you've been, listen, you've been worse than me. You're totally obsessed with the vibe. You talked about this yesterday.

You were saying every morning you wake up, you're dreaming of a new project. I'm dreaming of a new project. It's not so much that is when you get stuck on one project and you're determined to crack the problem and you just you become obsessed.

But I've noticed that luckily enough, I'm not the only one. I mean, oh, it is become just the thing that everyone is talking about. and every time you read some social media post, it's, I've created this.

Is anyone wanna test it out? It's so cool. Well, I follow David Goldfield's feed, the Tech V.I. list, which is great.

It's a great resource. And it's full now of people who are testing out, trying out new things. And I think it's great.

I mean, I just wish I had more time to test all these things out because we could talk more about them on the show. And we will, absolutely, when I get around to testing them.

But, because you know, you do want to at least know that when you, if I start it up and it works, then that's a good beginning, right? Well, is that enough though? Right? We talk about beta testing all the time. I mean, we're kind of skipping that step, aren't we? Now, with these vibe codes, I mean,

we run it ourselves, we get it to a level, we think, ah, this is cool, and it's working for me. And then we say, hey, anyone else want to try this? You could argue that is the beta test. But I don't know, when you mentioned the other day, you almost felt sometimes that some of the apps felt almost fragile, like delicate.

I think they're just about one hair of breath from falling over and crashing. I was talking about my own stuff because I feel, because I don't know the code, because I don't read the code,

or I can read it, but I don't understand it. Yes. I'm kind of nervous to think, if it does break, okay, yes, I can just go to Claude and say, it's broke.

Fix it. And I've been doing that a lot recently. You know, I set up a little thing where it requires like a local server to run.

And then I went into the other day and it said, internal serverer copy paste. What does that mean? Fix it. And it just goes off and figures it out. And then suddenly it works again.

And yeah, that's fine. But you know, and that's okay for me. But I couldn't give this to someone else to use because I'd be so nervous if it broke for them.

And it probably was. But what's the difference? I mean, we've all used software out there before. Before Vibe coding came out that's crashed or didn't work for us.

And it should have done. And it's just our problem. And we need to wait on the developer to sort it out or never does, because oh, it just doesn't work on my computer for some reason.

I think there's a difference though. It'd be like, I don't know if you ever did this. I know that America is a big thing. I don't know if you ever did it as a kid,

because I don't know if England is different to Scotland. I don't know if you're aware of that, but it is. Oh, well done. We're an entirely different country.

We might live on the same island, Sean Priest, but you know, we do things differently here. We're going to get aggressive again. What about you today?

You want to get outside? I'm defending my country. Go Scotland in the world cup. Is that still going? Right. What's it saying? I'm saying about code brain. Yeah. Commercial software and we are relying on a developer to make

any fixes. Yeah. But I think it's like us making, I remember, I'll get, okay, I'll tell you what I'm