HapWare Aleye, Time's Best Inventions and the Smart Glasses Ban Debate
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HapWare Aleye, Time's Best Inventions and the Smart Glasses Ban Debate

B1IntermediateNovember 11, 202656 min
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HapWare's Aleye wristband, named one of Time Magazine's Best Inventions of 2026, turns smiles, waves and handshakes into vibrations that blind users can feel. CEO Jack Walters explains what has changed, along with pricing, pre-orders and privacy. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece also take on the growing push to ban smart glasses. The show starts with the other assistive tech on Time's list, the Mangoslab Nemonic Dot braille label printer. That leads to a moan about braille labelling. The electronic options, like the 6dot label maker, cost well over $1,000, and the old manual embossers take more hand strength...

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Hey guys welcome on to another episode of Double Tap today we're talking to one of Time Magazine's Inventions of the Year. This is Double Tap where blind people talk tech. Here's Steven Scott and Sean Preece. Ahhh, Sean Preece how are you today? Why are you laughing? What's going on? Are we enjoying

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yourself over there? Are we talking to the invention? No we're talking to the inventor. Okay. All right. We're talking to the event. We're talking to a physical device. Are we?

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Yes. Beauty and the Beast. We're going to talk to the singing kettle. Oh, I love that song. Stop it. Okay. Do you can do that copyright strike? What do you want to do that? We're talking to the inventor of the invention or one of the inventions of the year of 2026 by

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