🤓 Captify Wins AgeTech After Dark Competition at CES (AARP Article)

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Smart Glasses with Live Captions Wins AARP Pitch Contest at CES.

San Francisco start-up Captify aims to help deaf people, others focus on preventing falls and controlling digital devices without using hands.

By Edward C. Baig, AARP. Published January 08, 2026.

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(3) ATDev builds personal robotic devices to bolster mobility.

(4) Kinemo Proprio helps you control devices when you can’t use your hands.

(5) Memcara uses music therapy to help patients with dementia.

Like many people who suffer from moderate to severe hearing loss, Tom Pritsky would nod along and pretend he understood before withdrawing from a conversation. After spending around $20,000 over the years on hearing aids, Pritsky, who is just 27 and has experienced bilateral hearing loss since he was a child, realized, “I wasn’t alone.”

More than 1.5 billion people worldwide have some degree of hearing loss.

To address the problem, Pritsky cofounded a year-old smart glasses company called Captify, which delivers real-time captions from the field of view of the person wearing the specs, which he claims are accurate 98 percent of the time, even in noisy environments.

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