Fauxsee Innovation Case Study

They say necessity is the mother of all invention. But, in one local man’s life, invention is a necessity. Magnolia resident Brandon Foshee lost his sight in his early twenties due to a rare condition, but instead of relying only on traditional visual and sense aids, he became an innovator in new technology to help others like him. Always an “idea man”, Brandon became infatuated with new and alternative ways to guide people who live each day without sight. He thought there had to be a better way to aid the blind to his or her immediate surroundings. Foshee and his company, FauxSee Innovations LLC, have been pushing the envelope in terms of technological research and aid for the blind since 2011. “We’ve actually got five different products now in various stages of development. If the technology exists that allow robots and now even cars to drive safely themselves, then there must be ways to make better and safer methods to aid the visually impaired. Our Roboglasses are a pair of
Department of Agriculture and the National Science Foundation. All of the grants are approved through the Small Business Innovation Research Program, or SBIR. FauxSee Innovations is the only Arkansas business or resident south of Little Rock ever to receive a grant from this program. “Normally, we apply for around two grants a year. It’s been working out where we get about one of them… which is actually pretty good considering only 14 or 15% normally get funded. I like to think it’s because we have such good ideas,” Foshee says with a laugh. FauxSee Innovations LLC holds and has applied for multiple U.S. patents and won its first grant from the National Science Foundation in 2013. It has received over $400,000 in research and development money in total and they are trying to win a guaranteed, two-year, one-million dollar grant which will hopefully fully fund all of their