Tech Pulse 4/13/26

This week on Tech Pulse, we narrate three articles spanning assistive technology, battery science, and analog parenting.A blind ultramarathoner takes on the NYC Half Marathon with AI-powered glasses that describe the world around him in real time — attempting to hand off some of a guide runner's duties to technology. What the experiment reveals about AI's limits is as interesting as what it gets right.A Finnish startup claims to have cracked the solid-state battery, the field's long-sought holy grail. The piece weighs the test data against what remains unverified, and surveys a global race increasingly dominated by one country.Families fed up with smartphones are handing their kids landlines instead. The results are equal parts charming and chaotic — and the piece quietly asks how long nostalgia can hold before the pull of screens wins anyway.