2026 CES Review Part 2 & Tech Takeaway

On this episode we’re continuing our journey through the Consumer Electronics Show. Then, we’ll wrap up with our monthly Tech Takeaway, where we’ll explore six new apps featured in the recent 1.4 update.

On this episode (In order of appearance)

• Narrator
• Sara Brown, APH Public Relations Manager
• Gena Harper, Professional Athlete, Executive Business Woman
• Mike May, APH Consultant
• Jennifer Wenzel, Technology Product Specialist
• Michael Dennis, Technology Products Specialist

Additional links

• Indigo Nav App - Apple Store
• Indigo Nav App - Google Play Store
• Mike May's Podcast - The People Make the Places
• Gena Blind Woman of Action - Instagram
• Gena Blind Woman of Action - TikTok
• Gena@GenaHarper.com

Transcript

Narrator 0:00

Welcome to Change Makers, a podcast from APH. We're talking to people from around the world who are creating positive change in the lives of people who are blind or have low vision. Here's your host.

Sara Brown 0:15

Hello and welcome to Change Makers. I'm APH's public relations manager, Sara Brown, and on this episode, we're continuing our journey through the Consumer Electronics Show. Then we'll wrap up our monthly tech takeaway where we'll explore the six new apps that are featured in the recent 1.4 update. Let's dive back into the CES conversation.

Mike May 0:40

We'd like to cover some of the products for other disabilities, and there's a couple wheelchair products we'll talk about. And of course, there are blind people in wheelchairs, so we always press them about accessibility.

Gena Harper 0:54

Hey, another really cool invention at the Unveiled event.

Interview and Audio from CES 0:58

This is uh called uh EV1, so it stands for everyday vehicle. We combine the 20 sensors around the vehicle. So basically it sees everything around it, and especially during you know, um, a crowded space or a narrow corridor, things not easy to navigate around. These sensors will help people. So we have two different modes. So the first is actually the manual driving mode, like every other mobility product. And then the second is co-pilot. For example, in this congestion environment, yeah. It's very easy to hit someone, our system would be able to detect obstacles and then slow down or stop.

Gena Harper 1:31

Now, do you think a blind person could do this?

Interview and Audio from CES 1:33

That's a possibility for the future.

Gena Harper 1:35

Right now, it's good. No, you gotta know about the future. That would be so amazing. Could you imagine, even for elderly people like losing their vision? How do you control it?

Interview and Audio from CES 1:43

You control it still with a joystick here.

Gena Harper 1:45

Uh, I see, and then you go different direction. I got it. Yeah, I saw that, yeah. Wow. Well, thank you. And do keep accessibility in mind.

Interview and Audio from CES 1:54

This chair is able to go over an obstacle over about two inches. And that two inches is similar for a human foot, right? Yeah. So a lot of times, like you just run over people's toes. Right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Not ideal. Ideal case. Right. It does take out a human feet. Yeah. Then we'll try to avoid it.

Mike May 2:13

Yeah, that certainly would be a challenge if you were blinding in a wheelchair, not running people over. All of these um products tend to have apps, as I've said, and so we certainly asked the following company uh to make sure their app to control this unique product was accessible.

Gena Harper 2:31

We are at CES 2026. Woohoo! This is an event called Unveiled, where there are companies unveiling new products. This is a product we've seen before, but it's new and improved. So it's called the Y Brush, the new and updated one. You cannot get on Amazon until 2027. You put this in your mouth and it brushes your teeth in 20 seconds. This particular version also has a breath analyzer and it can analyze 300 different conditions like diabetes, liver disease. What a cool device! The website is y brush dot co. About this product, they actually do have it available on Amazon, and what it really is, it's imagine like an Invisalign or retainers, and you literally just put one on the top for your top teeth and one on the bottom, and it brushes them super fast. What the current product does not have is it does not have the breath analyzer to identify different diseases and things. But I have thought this was really cool since we saw it the very first time. I think it's worth checking out.

Mike May 3:42

So one question is what happens if you're in a manual wheelchair and you want to upgrade to an electric one? Here's an option.

Interview and Audio from CES 3:50

This is the first compact and lightweight solution in the market that enables to transform any manual wheelchair into an off-road and electrical assistance wheelchair. Here there is a battery, there is a wheel.

Gena Harper 4:02

Oh uh.

Interview and Audio from CES 4:03

Uh, you can see it. There is a mechanical fixation. Okay. And then here, this is a wheelchair.

Gena Harper 4:08

Ah, when is it available?

Interview and Audio from CES 4:10

We start production and save this year. It will be something of around $6,000.

Gena Harper 4:15

So it basically just turns a manual wheelchair into something that can have a lot more accessibility, right?

Interview and Audio from CES 4:21

Exactly. You use your wheelchair, the one that is uh adapted to you, to your disability. Uh-huh. And then you take wheel move, you put it on your wheelchair, and it connects to my wrist. I have a remote.

Gena Harper 4:33

Oh, I see. Oh, neat! Okay. Oh wow, that is very interesting.

Interview and Audio from CES 4:36

So I put the brakes, you push one button, and then effortlessly it lifts up the front wheels.

Gena Harper 4:41

Well, that is wonderful. Thank you for the demonstration.

Mike May 4:45

I've always been interested in drones as they've evolved, and particularly now that they're autonomous. I thought, well, shoot, a blind person could run a drone. And they buzz pretty loudly, so I thought I could control it by just listening to where it is. And you can tip your phone to direct it, but you know, up, down, left, right. And so I bought one recently to play with, and I'm I'm still getting acquainted with the app.

Gena Harper 5:14

Here we are, we found a really cool thing. We had a company called DIC Corporation based in Japan. This spiritual drone here is made by special resins that can fly in the sky but also roll on the ground. So it could be used in a tough situation like disaster inspection, inspections for buildings where people can hardly access cameras inside, like here.

Interview and Audio from CES 5:34

Yeah, there's a space here to apply cameras.

Gena Harper 5:37

This has blades inside, right? Is that what makes it spin?

Interview and Audio from CES 5:40

Yes, that's right. These kinds of applications could be applied for entertainment. Here we are displaying the videos doing the Japanese sumo. Do you know sumo? Oh, uh-huh. So we are playing two drones here, rolling each other doing sumo here. Oh, I see. We hooked it, launched it in the market within this year, end of the year. We expect to be around $1,500 for business. That seems very reasonable.

Gena Harper 6:04

This is a really neat product. It's very hard to describe, but it's about the size of a big exercise ball, the kind you would sit on to do sit-up, so not a small one. And it has all kinds of open spaces where you could put your hand in and touch the inside and the blades and things like that. But just you can also put your hands on the outside and hold it like a big ball. And I think this could be a lot of fun for blind people playing some kind of sport that probably needs to be invented. And I thought it was very interesting about how it could easily be used in natural disasters, because the thing about this drone is that you can just roll it or push it in, say an earthquake zone or something. And because it's round in shape and it's controlled, it can just go over things and around things and really type spaces. And it seemed like it has tons of potential.

Mike May 7:06

A lot of products in the culinary product category, and here's one of them.

Gena Harper 7:11

Hey, we found another cool product, a smart oven. It's a company called Nosh.

Interview and Audio from CES 7:16

Nosh is a RoboChef that has 500 plus recipes that are already programmed into it. If you can touch here, this is so. So this is the trace where all the perishable ingredients can go in. You can load it here. Yeah, there we go. You can push it. Yep. And done. All the seasonings are stored in this container. So there is salt, there is chili powder, this goes at the top of the product. That's how that's how you can put it. We use induction because induction is completely healthy, has a temperature sensor. We use time, we use temperature, and we use vision to cook your dish. Notch can cook dishes which we eat as a whole meal for four members. The tray which you initially saw, right? Users can prepare multiple of those trays in one go, store it in the refrigerator. Whenever you want to cook, you can take one tray, remove the lid, put it into product, and command it to cook.

Gena Harper 8:05

So very convenient. Yeah, I love it. Thank you.

Interview and Audio from CES 8:08

Website is let's notch.io.

Gena Harper 8:11

I found one of my favorite products. We're trying to provide convenient solutions for the home. In particular, we're the first ever company to make frozen carbonated slushy machine for the home market. And you can make your favorite flushes, fizzy, non-fizzy, and also ice cold sodas in as little as two to four minutes. So you have a syrup capsule. Okay, and then how do I put it in?

Interview and Audio from CES 8:31

Just slide that in. There we go.

Gena Harper 8:33

That's enough for one.

Interview and Audio from CES 8:33

That's enough for one. You've add the water as well. It will be NFT, so it will actually recognize what the flavor type is automatically. What the drink type is, and even the used by date. But we've got 20 flavors at the moment. So it's sugar, sugar free. We're looking to have it on the shelves before the summer. US will be our biggest market for sugar. We're looking at approximately $700 for the machine is the price point. And we're looking at approximately a dollar for the stew up capsule.

Gena Harper 8:56

Well, this is really neat. Thank you for this sample. It was delicious.

Interview and Audio from CES 8:58

My pleasure.

Gena Harper 8:59

I need a spoon.

Interview and Audio from CES 9:00

Yeah, I know. I need a spoon too. From an accessibility point of view, it's really important that everybody's covered. You're not leaving anybody out for a product like this. So already we have NFT technology. So you put the stirrup capsule in, and the machine will recognise what the flavor is, what the drink type is, what the use by date is. Yes, there'll be a visual reference, but there should also be an audio reference as well. Say, would you like to make the drink now? And you could say, yes. Amazing. Yeah, well, it's easy to do, absolutely.

Gena Harper 9:25

And also our app, a lot of blind people are very tech savvy. So apps, you know, and it uses voiceover on the iPhone. Having a talk would be more unique than the other thing. Yeah, I agree.

Interview and Audio from CES 9:34

Yeah, I don't have all the answers now.

Gena Harper 9:36

But you're thinking it through.

Interview and Audio from CES 9:38

Absolutely.

Gena Harper 9:38

Great.

Mike May 9:39

It's quite the United Nations of accents that you've been hearing from all over the world at CES.

Gena Harper 9:46

We found yet another super cool thing it unveiled. And what is it, Bob?

Interview and Audio from CES 9:51

This is the Defy Sidekick. It is the world's first powered wearable at the ankle. It's for anyone who wants to walk more with less discomfort or fatigue and more ease. And we're gonna get her suited up in the Defy Sidekick. So first step is Okay, so this is the sidekick here. What you're feeling right here is the shin hub. It's gonna strip around your cap. So what you're gonna feel is like a little hub to your shin. Okay. Okay, yeah. Okay, so we're gonna take 20 strides. Right now, the device is just learning how you walk. You start to feel a little boost in your heel.

Gena Harper 10:26

Oh my god! Like extra energy.

Interview and Audio from CES 10:28

Wow, these are you are the first blind person to talk about. I could super see myself using it with a my dog. It's going to be able to adjust to the adventure you take yourself on. This is perfect for being in a CES when you have those tired legs. If you are walking all day long, and so being in the common stomach kick is gonna help you reduce that fatigue, help you go further and faster. Our CEO and co-founder Luke Mooney, after doing a lot of research on helping people who needed prosthetic legs, how they can have powered legs, he said, What if I can help people who have both limbs, but they may have discomfort, um, they might have fatigue, and walking may not be the easiest. Right. One of the things that we had heard people talk about while we were doing testing and development is like just the commuter lifestyle for people who are just hypermobile. Cut your commute down or your walk down. Exactly. It's available now for purchase. We're shipping about late January. Do they come in fun colors? So there's blush, blue titanium, charcoal green, crushed orchid, and black.

Gena Harper 11:39

I always like products that definitely care about how we look because there are a lot of products that we look dorky wearing. And this was really neat. You wear the shoes, so you're it's not your own shoes, it's part of the product is the shoes. I was a little nervous when I started to test it out because I thought it was gonna run away with me or something. And what I really liked about it after testing it was that if I don't move, it doesn't move. So the second I stop moving my feet, it just stops. And it it definitely seems like it could add more efficiency to walking and add endurance. So I really enjoyed this.

Mike May 12:16

It makes me think of when I was a kid, there was I think they might have called rocket shoes, and they were strings that you had between your foot and the platform, and you bounced along this spring forward. This next product is just the opposite of the robotic dog that we heard about. And I can't help but think that this would be a great replacement for the proliferation of emotional support animals that we run into on airplanes, which for us guide dog users can sometimes be a bit annoying. Maybe they could use one of these products instead.

Gena Harper 12:54

It's so amazing how soft Jenny is and she's moving and vibrating. Oh my god, she's so cute!

Interview and Audio from CES 13:02

Jenny is a fully interactive robotic emotional support animal. She was inspired by my mother, who, after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's dementia, I had to take away her dog for safety reasons. I looked around for substitutes for live animal companion, but she didn't like anything that I brought home. And so I realized there was a large unmet need. Jenny is designed to treat the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, reducing the need for certain medications, including psychotropics. She'll be the first puppy to be both an FDA medical device and a remote safety and health monitoring platform.

Gena Harper 13:37

My mom, she has dementia too, and she too had a dog and the dog passed away. I think she would love this idea.

Interview and Audio from CES 13:43

Well, thank you. We also sell through assisted living, memory care, and hospital health systems that want to buy it or rent it on behalf of the residents of patients. She has a sensory system so she can feel how and where she's being touched.

Gena Harper 13:56

So that's how she knows how to wag her tail when I move my hand.

Interview and Audio from CES 13:59

Exactly, but she can also hear us talking if it responds to a long list of voice commands, but only to her name. We come with a smartphone app that allows people to name the robot, and then once name she'll only respond to that given name. She has over a hundred unique sounds that she can make. Authentic puppy recordings. It's amazing how many sounds a Labrador puppy will make. We teamed up with Jim Henson's Creature Shop to do all of our artistic design.

Gena Harper 14:23

Wow. Hi, Jenny. How are you, sweetheart? I lost my beautiful guy dog Yuli in September, and I need a Jenny.

Interview and Audio from CES 14:32

My mother was a special education teacher, and her specialization was people with visual impairment. Uh and she loved the fact that not only could she benefit from the puppy, but also many of her students.

Gena Harper 14:43

I think she likes me. She seems very happy. She's very content. She seems very happy. So this dog is bigger than a cat. Like I'd say the third of a size of a golden retriever in the space that she takes up. Like you could hold her in your arms like a big baby. And she probably weighs about 10 pounds. It really does seem like the best technology that I've seen for people that aren't able to really have a dog for whatever the reason is. And she was neat that just moving my hands or talking to her is what made her react. I didn't have to give any special commands or anything like that. I think there's a lot of possibility for this product.

Mike May 15:27

Yeah, and speaking of dogs, when I'm traveling, my beautiful golden retriever Johnny gets lots of attention, lots of comments, but here's a product that gets even more attention than my dogs.

Gena Harper 15:41

Gina, why woman of action at CES 2026? And I am using my favorite rainbow glam cane, which I love and matches most of my outfits. I have many glam canes, and I want to say thank you to Arthur and Washing for developing this and then creating them because they have really added to my own self-esteem for feeling beautiful, looking beautiful. I get so many comments and people that are interested because this makes a big difference. So thank you. These glam canes come in a myriad of different colors, and they are regular, normal, usable canes for blind people that are all sparkly. So I have sparkly purple, sparkly pink, sparkly rainbow, and I love that I can mix and match them to match my wardrobe. And people do really think they're unique and special and want to help or engage with me more than they normally do when I'm using just my white canes. So I really enjoyed these glam canes.

Mike May 16:41

So that's our summary, our wrap on the consumer electronic show 2026. And I'm sure we'll be back next year with more. But we also hope to be following up with some of these companies and others that we met at CES to help their products to be accessible and check them out. I would mention that I'm gonna do a version of this CES wrap-up on my podcast called The People Make the Places. It's about traveling and about the places that I encounter. And CES is something I've been going through since 1984. And so I have uh a history of that and some other experiences that I'll fold in with um the highlights from this CES.

Gena Harper 17:27

You can follow all of Mike's and my travels and our endless search for new and interesting technology by watching my posts on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook under Gena Blind Woman of Action. And Gena is spelt G-E-N-A. So Gina Blind Woman of Action. And you can also contact me with my email at Gena@Genaharper.com. And it was great having the opportunity to share all this with all of you. And thank you, Sara.

Sara Brown 18:01

It was great having you both on here. And before I let you two go, is there anything else you would like to talk about outside of CES?

Gena Harper 18:09

One thing I'd like to add that I think is really interesting that was at CES in 2017 or 18, and is similar to a product we featured today, the oven, is Mike and I just got a new oven called a Brava. And uh what is significant about Brava is that from day one, the company has cared about accessibility. So their app is about 98% accessible, and from our experience, uh, just this connecting it to Wi-Fi, you have to use a screen. But that took about two minutes of working with a cited person. And we've had such a fun time using this oven. And the most important part is that the company continues to care about accessibility. So if we're using the app and we find a feature that doesn't work right or doesn't make sense, or the flicking isn't the general gesture used on an iPhone, I just connect with them. They are super responsive, they fix it immediately, they pretty much do an update every week. And it's amazing working with a company that's so committed and they've been committed from the beginning. So we can only hope that our work at CES also does influence other companies to be like this company. So thank you, Brava.

Mike May 19:26

It's not cheap, but I think they offer an NFD discount, right?

Sara Brown 19:30

Correct. Mike, what about you?

Mike May 19:34

Well, of course, I'd like to talk about Indigo if I could.

Sara Brown 19:38

Yes, go for it. Tell us tell us about Indigo and what's the latest.

Mike May 19:42

Yeah, Indigo is a fully accessible navigation app from APH. The first version was released in October of 2025, and the second version was released this January of '26. And the big difference, of course, in a fully accessible navigation app is that it's more verbose. And then that's it. But with an accessible app, uh with Indigo, you will hear turn right and a hundred feet. Turn now. Continue straight. So it gives you prompting so that you're reassured that you did the right thing in the right spot. And of course the other thing is points of interest. Commercial apps don't tell you about all the points you're passing because people would get annoyed by that. But you want to know your environment. I call it location literacy. I mean you know your environment because you're hearing what you pass. Not just the things you want in your destination, but the things that you're actually going by so you have those for future reference. So the uh second version of Indigo, uh now available free in the app store for both Android and iOS, is something you should check out. Give us feedback as APH is continuing to make improvements on this app, and it's already uh pretty significant and with a lot more uh changes to come, including uh some AI features. You know, everybody's gotta add AI to their products, so we'll be doing some fun things making Indigo improve over the coming months.

Sara Brown 21:33

All right. Gena and Mike, thank you both so much for taking time out of your day to share your experience at CES on Change Makers.

Gena Harper and Mike May 21:42

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Sara Brown 21:46

I've included links in the show notes to Gina's and Mike's social media channels if you'd like to connect with them and continue the conversation. Now it's time for our Tech Takeaway. Here's Jennifer Wenzel and Michael Dennis.

Jennifer Wenzel 22:00

Hello and welcome to this month's edition of Tech Takeaways. I'm Jennifer Wenzel.

Michael Dennis 22:06

And my name is Michael Dennis, and we're very excited to introduce now some new features or new apps of the monarch. We have already teased this in our last episode, but now we have the ability to actually introduce you to a total of six new apps released between the 1.4 update early on in February, or actually in January already, and a CSAN, which is going to take place at the beginning of March. And one of the most important ones I want to kick it off with is KeyDrive. We've talked about it in our last episode, and if you haven't listened to that one, go back into the Changemakers podcasts and tune in. And uh KeyDrive is the access to OneDrive as well as Google Drive. This will definitely help a lot of schools getting their documents over to their students, especially those using the Google Classroom settings. So that are the two main ones. You can just log in through the Key Drive application. And you will also have the access basically through the file management system, or also when you want to save documents. This will be all over the monarch now, available definitely for working, collaboration, and everything. As I said, further details in the last episode of our podcast. It's a lot of pages, a lot of letters, a lot of numbers, but this one is basically compromised onto the monarch. You have the ability to search by the name of an element. You can um search the element by its periodic number or even only by its symbols. And uh you really have the ability to find all the elements in here. And uh, Jennifer, I think especially for you for you, this is a great, great deal to have that not anymore in a paper trail and that it is digital now, isn't it?

Jennifer Wenzel 24:21

Yes, and it's all laid out. You can actually understand the columns, the rows. Um, so I think it's a great thing. You can point and click on an element to get more information. You can, as Michael said, search in different ways for elements. I think it's just a great reference tool and will be a huge help for students in chemistry. I wish I would have had this when I was in chemistry.

Michael Dennis 24:41

Fun fact on my end, since I went to school in Germany, I got rid of chemistry as quickly as possible. So I was not a lot in touch with that particular periodic table. Um but fun facts is a good keyword because next to some educational things, what we see more key word uh key drive and the periodic table under. There's also something for fun which still teaches you a little bit, uh, and that is called mm word stocks. This is basically uh a little word game where you can um guess three or five letter words. Um maybe some people know uh the game Wordle. It's very similar to this one. So the whole idea is that you uh guess the words and you try to build a streak as long as possible. Maybe you can beat Jennifer with her 130-something day streak. Um or Jennifer, are you uh have you set a new record?

Jennifer Wenzel 25:41

Oh, I had broken, I had a 141-day streak that I broke, so now I'm I'm working on um I'm only at like 17 right now. So, you know, people might be able to beat me. Um, but right now that game, um, Wordstock is super fun. It you can get the word of the day from the New York Times Wordle game. You also have a bank of words you can play Dictionary 5 or Dictionary 4, which are from um word banks, those can be played offline. And another game that can be played online, just like the Wordle type game needs to be played online, um, is um a game called Previous Days Words, which draws from a previous bank of those types of words. So there's two online games, two offline games, and then you have the statistics, and you can send those statistics and share them with your contacts so you can try to get some friendly competition going.

Michael Dennis 26:32

So it's actually an exciting way to work on your words, especially maybe if you're more um a younger student, to extend your vocabulary, um, but also really to like challenge yourself mentally to guess the right word in a limited amount of tries. So uh definitely uh check that one out. And um, next to um Wordstock, Jennifer has also another game which is under the releases and some more educational apps and Jennifer.

Jennifer Wenzel 27:07

Yeah, so all of my apps that I'm gonna talk about, um one is a pure game. It's the um PBS Kids Cyber Chase Echo Explorer, although it actually has some educational value as well. It is a game that is fully accessible with tactographics and speech and haptic feedback, and it is a game about using coordinates, understanding the way a grid is laid out and using directions and coordinates to find items on a grid. You're trying to find items to build a cave crasher, to crash through walls that hacker has built to rescue bats. It's it's it's a very fun game. And toward the end of the game, in more advanced levels, you actually need to type in coordinate letters and numbers to get to where you need to be. At the beginning, you're just using your arrows to send little echo pings in a direction. But it is a very fun game, and it is a completely mainstream game that sighted students are playing online through BBS Kids. So it's really exciting that we have this version on the monarch. And this opens the realm of many, I hope, many more accessible educational games to come. We also have two apps that are called Flip Over Concepts. One is called Flip Over Concepts Lines, and one is called Flip Over Concepts Textures. And these are a little bit of a game, um, more like an activity, and or a couple of different activities. They're really great for some of those pre-braille skills like tracking, tactile discrimination. They can be used with older students for some tactile discrimination and for some navigation on the monarch. They are great activities. So there's a tutorial mode that kind of explains how to how you play it. Then there is an exploration mode, which gives you the different types of lines and textures and gives you some description of them. And then there is, and they're two separate apps, but they're they're laid out very similarly. So one is textures, one is lines. So in both of them, you can do some matching activities. You can do two-panel matching where you're matching the line or the texture on the left with the line or the texture on the right. And then when you get good at that, and when you when you do match it, um you use your arrows to move to change type of line or type of texture so that you can match it. And when you believe they match, you use enter to submit a guess. And if it does match, it gives you a little sound, a little kind of happy sound, I would say, positive sound, and some haptic feedback, and then the line on the left or the texture on the left changes. If you are wrong, you get a different sound and some some more haptic feedback to say nope, try again, and so then you you continue to try. Um once you're good at that two-panel matching, you can advance to three-panel matching. So you have a the left texture or line, and then you have a middle and a right textures and lines, and so you would use your arrows. Um, the left D-pad moves the middle, the right d-pad moves the other part, the right side, and um you try to get them all to match. So it's a really fun thing. It's kind of a game, but it continues on with no limit. So it doesn't give you points or um change you when you when you've done a certain number of tries. It's just sort of an activity that can keep going, but it's got that little feedback, and it's it's kind of a fun activity. Um, helps with tracking, helps with texture discrimination. Um, and it is, it can be a lot of fun and very educational for some tactile literacy. So I really wanted to quickly tell you how you get some of these apps. Because you may be asking, okay, this is great, but how do I get these apps? Well, I can tell you. You can go to KeyUpdater, and now in Key Updater, there is a section that says install new app applications. And you can use enter to select that, and it will give you a list of the applications that you can install. And you can just you can install all of them if you want to, or whichever ones you may need, and you can come back to this at any time to install different apps. So it gives you choices then, so it's not going to install all of them when you update, um, and you're able to install different apps as they release. So this is a great way to continue to change your monarch for your students' needs.

Michael Dennis 31:30

So some exciting things, some exciting things, as you guys may see, uh APH and its partners came up with for the uh monarch releases. Jennifer, is there anything we need to maybe add to the to those six applications?

Jennifer Wenzel 31:47

No, but I believe there are more apps in the works, so you should keep paying attention to that area and to your EOT emails, and we will also talk about future applications in future podcasts. So please, if you have again um different topics, other either ideas for our podcast, please email changemakers at aph.org. And I'm Jennifer Wenzel.

Michael Dennis 32:10

And my name is Michael Dennis, and thank you for joining us for our second episode. Actually, it's the third episode for Change Makers, the Tech Takeaways in 2026.

Sara Brown 32:22

Thank you so much for listening to this episode of Change Makers. Do you have a topic you'd love for us to cover? Be sure to send it my way by emailing changemakers@ aph.org. And as always, be sure to look for ways you can be a change maker this week.