In order to celebrate our 35th episode, and at the cost of $35 no less, J.J. takes us on a path of audio bliss with his demo of the new Chromecast Audio device from Google. Joe talks about a low vision friendly time waster that returns "Back From The Future". Also there is the matter of the news, a tip, "Sound Off' and the infamous "Last Word" sporting a cameo from Mr. Patrick Perdue!
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In The News:
Horizons for the Blind service, Directions For me, back online
The Maker of the Fopydo Scanning Stand is Crowdfunding a Companion Book Reading Base
AFB Seeking Donations to Preserve Helen Keller Archive, Make it Accessible
For Fans of Audio Description, Movies Jumping from Netflix to Hulu is Bad News
The Apple Rundown: The iPhone 7 Is Only 11 Months Away Edition
Woman dreams of being blind
Review: Chromecast Audio
Google introduced a new device into the Chromecast family with the release of the amazingly affordable Chromecast Audio. J.J. demonstrates just how easy it is to use from both iOS and Android versions of the Chromecast app. he also explains why some may want to have this device over the new, or original, Chromecast players. Also, if you want to know more about these little round bits of audio goodness, check out this Ars Technica article on the teardown of a Chromecast Audio.
Review: Low vision friendly, Jetpack Joyride and the Back To The Future promotion
There have been at least a dozen video games over the past 30 years that will let you pretend to be Marty McFly from the "Back To The Future" series. But none of them are as easy to pick up and play as the endless side scrolling runner from Halfbrick Studios update to their classic game "jetpack joyride". Tap the screen to raise Marty higher to gain coins, dodge obstacles, gain the powers of the Hoverboard and even drive the DeLorian! Can you collect the 1.21 jigawatts before time runs out? This game is available on iOS, Android, Windows and probably a few dead platforms as well. in that way, it's just like Huey Lewis and the news.
Tip: Google Now Calling with Speaker Phone option
Joe shows you another reason for using Google now for hands free" calling on Android
Sound Off:
Here is the first of two emails we feature this week.

"enjoy your BB cast, and have a topic idea that's perfect for your irreverent style.
I'm blind and work at a college. More and more of my time is spent assisting low-vision young people master all kinds of technology. Though I wasn't hired as an access technology specialist and don't pretend to have any job experience in that area, I'm a power user of screen readers so people expect me to be a wiz at helping low-vision folks.
I've always maintained that I might be better at this than a sighted guy, simply because I don't make any assumptions about how much any given person can see. On the other hand, a sighted guy is better at, well, seeing. And it helps if you're actually seeing all this magnification stuff, even if you can't see inside the head of the low-vision user.
I don't want my students to depend on audio only if they still have usable vision because I use Braille with audio.
Yet, I don't want them to depend on flaky, unreliable vision when they could be using audio.
So Joe, when helping a low-vision person make informed choices, how do you approach the situation? If he asks whether K1000 or OpenBook is better; if he asks whether he should get Android or iOS; if he asks whether a Mac or Windows PC is best, what would you say? If he wants to know whether ZoomText or Magic is better; if he is re