AWARD School graduate’s “Lights for the Blind” concept to feature on ABC TVs New Inventors

Rob Caslick, AWARD School graduate and inventor of “Lights for the Blind” will be presenting his concept on The New Inventors TV programme next Wednesday night (April 6) at 8pm.

Caslick’s revolutionary idea is designed to improve the lives of thousands of blind people. It all started in 2008 when he graduated from AWARD School.

He submitted his AWARD School folio to the internationally famous design school in Milan, the Scoula Politecnia di Design, hoping to be accepted. He was and moved to Milan. Caslick topped the class for the year with his revolutionary concept.

He started with the knowledge that 90% of people who are blind can see some light so he decided to use LEDs as Braille. These LEDs act as a beacon to assist in finding the location of the Braille.The tips of LEDs are round so the person can read the tips of the LEDs with their fingers as they would with regular Braille. This allows blind people to be more independent and secure when traversing through a public space.

Vision Australia were very impressed with Caslick’s concept and launched it for him at Sydney’s Customs House in January.

It is now planned to go on exhibition in other capital cities and in September to Leipzig, Germany.

Ray Black, AWARD School founder (pictured above with Caslick) whom he gave a scholarship to attend AWARD School, said: “Rob is a wonderful example of the creative talent we have in Australia and he is an inspiration to all AWARD School students on what they can achieve with the right encouragement and hard work.”