Tech Pulse 10/6/25

This week on Tech Pulse, we narrate three articles spanning assistive technology, smart home innovation, and the space race.Meta's AI glasses were designed for mainstream consumers — but blind and visually impaired users have found ways to make them genuinely useful, from reading menus aloud to identifying objects in real time. The piece profiles one legally blind athlete who says the glasses make her days faster and less exhausting, while also being candid about where the technology still falls short.Amazon and Google have given their smart home assistants a generative AI overhaul — and the results are starting to feel less like novelty and more like something actually useful. Cameras that describe what they see, speakers that hold real conversations, and automations you can create just by describing what you want.A self-taught engineer from rural New Zealand who skipped college to become a tool and die apprentice is now building rockets designed to go head-to-head with SpaceX and Blue Origin.Aftersight is a media organization that serves individuals with barriers to print. This podcast is produced by Aftersight under the Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act which states that authorized nonprofit organizations whose primary mission is to provide copyrighted works in specialized formats to individuals with barriers to print are exempt. By continuing to listen, you verify you are blind, have low vision, or barriers to reading print materials.