2024

VR.net | Best Paper Award
IEEE VR
2024
Researchers develop AI-powered 'eye' for visually impaired people to 'see' objects
Tech Xplore
2024
NUS team develops affordable headset to help visually impaired ‘see’
The Straits Times
2024
NUS researchers launch AiSee to help the visually impaired “see” with the help of AI
Hardware Zone Singapore
2024
NUS researchers develop AI-powered headset to help visually impaired "see"
Channel NewsAsia (CNA)
2024
NUS researchers develop AI-powered ‘eye’ for visually impaired people to ‘see’ objects
National University of Singapore
2024
I Was Blind, But Now AiSee
hackster.io
2024
An experimental AI wearable recognises objects and tells visually-impaired users details of what they're holding
Yahoo News
2024
AiSee: Wearable lets visually impaired users ‘see’
FocusTechnica
2024
AiSee: AI-powered ‘eye’ for visually impaired people to ‘see’ objects
National University of Singapore
2024
AiSee: AI-Powered ‘Eye’ for Visually Impaired People to ‘See’ Objects
Adafruit
2024
AiSee wearable tells blind users what they're holding in their hand
News Atlas
2024

2023

Toro | Prototypes for Humanity
2023

2022

Watch a foot-tickling machine discover the most ticklish spot on feet
NewScientist
2022
Sri Lankan mastermind dedicated to enhancing the limits of physical, sensorial, and cognitive capabilities of human beings through technology
Lanka Business News
2022
Research Team Boosts Science Learning for Children: The Kiwrious Project
United Nations
2022
LightSense | Best Design Awards | Installation & Exhibition: Silver
Designers Institute of New Zealand
2022
KinVoice | Prototypes for Humanity
2022

2021

World Changing Ideas Awards 2021: Education | Finalist | Kiwrious
Fast Company
2021
World Changing Ideas Awards 2021: Asia-Pacific | Honorable Mention | Kiwrious
Fast Company
2021
WIPO Technology Trends Report: Assistive Technologies
World Intellectual Property Organization
2021
Ready, Steady, Learn w/ Samantha Chan
95bFM
2021
Ready Steady Learn w/ Tharindu Kaluarachchi
95bFM
2021
Novel interactive science kits sent out free to schools | Kiwrious
The University of Auckland
2021
New technology to take temperature of the feet of diabetics
The University of Auckland
2021
LightSense
Ars Electronica
2021
Kiwrious | Social Impact Winner
Good Design Australia
2021
Kiwrious | Best Design Awards | Value of Design : Bronze
Designers Institute of New Zealand
2021
Kiwrious | Best Design Awards | User Experience: Bronze
Designers Institute of New Zealand
2021
Kiwrious | Best Design Awards | Public Good Award: Silver
Designers Institute of New Zealand
2021
Inspiring curiosity for science in kids with Google Cloud solutions
Google Cloud
2021
Excellence in research translation 2020
The University of Auckland
2021
Excellence in graduate supervision 2020
The University of Auckland
2021
Cutting-edge festival brings together digital art, technology and virtual experience
The University of Auckland
2021
ClothTiles: A Prototyping Platform to Fabricate Customized Actuators on Clothing
Ars Electronica
2021
Architects and bioengineers create shape-shifting structure that talks in poetry
The University of Auckland
2021

2020

Touch me Gently Recreates Natural Touch Sensation Using Shape-Memory Alloy Matrix
hackster.io
2020
Touch me Gently | Global Grad Show
2020
Touch me Gently | Best Design Awards | Student Digital: Finalist
Designers Institute of New Zealand
2020
Top Games To Tryout in October 2020: DartsAR Pro
Games Keys
2020
This app is a digital punching bag for all your 2020 rage
FastCompany
2020
The light installation that lets you play a part
The University of Auckland
2020
The best student-designed projects of 2020
FastCompany
2020
Suranga wins Research Excellence Award
University of Auckland
2020
Serious scientific fun a winner at Velocity
The University of Auckland
2020
Run agency and Auckland Council bring Pride to the CBD
StopPress
2020
Prospero | Best Design Awards | Student Digital: Gold
Designers Institute of New Zealand
2020
Propsero | Best Design Awards | Public Good Award: Finalist
Designers Institute of New Zealand
2020
Pride in Lights | Best Design Awards | Lighting Design: Gold
Designers Institute of New Zealand
2020
Pride in Lights | Best Design Awards | Exhibitions & Temporary Structures: Gold
Designers Institute of New Zealand
2020
PhantomTouch | Global Grad Show
MediaGrab
2020
OM | Best Design Awards | User Experience: Finalist
Designers Institute of New Zealand
2020
OM | Best Design Awards | Public Good Award: Finalist
Designers Institute of New Zealand
2020
Maia | Best Design Awards | User Experience: Bronze
Designers Institute of New Zealand
2020
LightTank
SIGGRAPH Asia
2020
Lights, Web App, Action!
M+AD!
2020
Lighting up the foyer of the ABI
University of Auckland
2020
Light Tank| Best Design Awards | Installation & Exhibition: Gold. 2020.
Designers Institute of New Zealand
2020
Jammify | Best Design Awards | Student Spatial: Bronze
Designers Institute of New Zealand
2020
Jammify | Best Design Awards | Student Digital: Silver
Designers Institute of New Zealand
2020
Jammify
ARS Electronica
2020
GymSoles | Best Design Awards | Student Digital: Bronze
Designers Institute of New Zealand
2020
Fresh From The Field — RUN’s Auckland Rainbow Hub
Design Assembly
2020
Field Guide 2020: Navigating new realities
Design Assembly
2020
Fast Company 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards | Honorable Mention | Prospero: A Biosignal-Sensitive Memory Assistant
FastCompany
2020
Auckland Council Transforms the Ellen Melville Centre with new Pride Installation via Run
CampaignBrief
2020
ABI and CAI work together to show their arty-science side
The university of Auckland
2020
A triumvirate of medals for the Auckland Bioengineering Institute
Auckland Bioengineering Institute
2020
‘Lab in a pocket’ awakens young minds to the world around them, making scientific inquiry fun
The University of Auckland
2020

2019

Velocity Innovation Challenge 2019 | Female Founders Prize by UniServices | Prospero
Velocity
2019
This Doormat Can Tell Who You Are for Multi-Factor Authentication
hackter.io
2019
The interactive device you can stick in your mouth
2019
SUTD renews partnership with Eastern Health Alliance
Channel News Asia
2019
Inside Professor Nanayakkara’s Futuristic Augmented Human Lab
Smithsonian
2019
How an Auckland lab is using tech to help deaf people experience music
Noted
2019
GymSoles Help You Improve Your Squats and Deadlifts by Monitoring and Correcting Your Form
hackster.io
2019
Go Hands Free with Mobile Devices Using ChewIt Intraoral Input Interface
Hackster.io
2019
ChewIt - novel way to answer your mobile
RadioNZ
2019
Bite-sized device a new take on wearable tech
NZ Herald
2019
Best Design Awards | Public Good Award | MussBits
Designer Institute of New Zealand
2019
Bad, good, great: Auckland creative agency RUN is launching a stress app for students
Idealog
2019
A watch-like device that helps people feel the music
The University of Auckland
2019
A watch-like device that helps people feel the music
prweb
2019
A new way to answer your phone by biting a piece of tech
Springwise
2019

2018

The Six: Innovations at the Global Grad Show in Dubai
Arab News
2018
The Finger Reader
TVNZ
2018
SwimSight: a Sound of Hope for Deaf Swimmers
The Sunday Times
2018
Step inside the MIT lab designing new human-computer interfaces
Wired.UK
2018
How inventor Suranga Nanayakkara is humanising technology
Metro Magazine
2018
Futuristic solutions revealed at Global Grad Show at Dubai Design Week: Finger Reader
GULF News
2018
FingerReader: World Changing Ideas Award Finalist
FastCompany
2018
Finger Reader
Channel NewsAsia
2018
180 Seconds of Discovery video competition : Peoples Award
Royal Society Te Apārangi
2018

2017

Swimming: Sight-based starting system a green signal for deaf swimmers
Straits Times
2017
Sight-based starting system a green signal for deaf swimmers
Sunday Times
2017
Our edited volume on 'Assistive Augmentations'
Springer Singapore
2017
Making Technology more Humane
Echelon
2017
FingerReader: Winner of Accelerator Program
Modern Aging Singapore
2017
FingerReader: Golden Pin Concept Design Award
Design Center Taiwan
2017
AH Lab moves to Auckland
University of Auckland
2017

2016

zSense: Most Promising Technology Award at IHL Tech Pitching Event
InnovFest 2016
2016
zSense: First place in Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Bootcamp pitch competition
2016
Universal Design Enables Everyone | Suranga Nanayakkara
TEDxYouth@Palmerston
2016
Technology enables people with disabilities
CCTV.com
2016
Suranga received INK Fellowship
INK Fellows Program
2016
Steve Howard Award - for the best long paper by a student presented during OZCHI, CHISIG’s Annual Conference: MuSS-Bits: Sensor-Display Blocks for Deaf People to Explore Musical Sounds
2016
Singapore Design Award 2016 for FingerReader
Design Business Chamber Singapore
2016
Sharper Senses - Devices mimicking our natural senses
BBC
2016
Ring helps people 'see', thanks to grant
Straits Times
2016
El lector de libros artificial
Antena3.com
2016

2015

Wear to Read it
2015
The More Well Wishes for the Nation, the Brighter the Interactive Light Up
Lianhe Zaobao (Print)
2015
Suranga received The Ten Outstanding Young Person (TOYP) Award, Sri Lanka. December 2015
2015
Singapore designers create lights for the deaf and rings for the blind
Hilary Whiteman, CNN
2015
Read Bridge lights up for the festive season
Shivaanan Selvasevaran, Channel NewsAsia
2015
Blinking curtain of lights to bring SG50 to a close
Berita Harian (Print)
2015
An interactive tribute to Singapore
The Straits Times
2015

2014

Wearable device helps you read with your finger
Fox Business News
2014
Wear this ring to hear what's written
Hoe Pei Shan, Straits Times
2014
Tomorrow Daily: Reading with Your Finger
c|net
2014
This Ring Scans Text And Reads It Aloud For Visually Impaired People
Jordan Kushins, Gizmodo
2014
This Ring Reads Books And Magazines To The Blind
Huffington Post
2014
This Decoder Ring Helps The Blind Read Without Braille
Sydney Brownstone, Fast Company
2014
The ring that READS for you: Finger-worn gadget reads aloud when you point at words
Ellie Zolfagharifard, Daily Mail
2014
Suranga received Innovator under 35 (MIT TR35) award for Asia Pacific Region
2014
Sponsor's Choice Award
Student Innovation Contest (UIST 2014)
2014
New Invention: FingerReader
Fox 10
2014
New Finger Device Reads Books To The Blind
Janet Fang, IFL Science!
2014
MIT’s FingerReader Helps The Blind Read With A Swipe Of A Digit
Evan Fleischer, TechCrunch
2014
MIT's FingerReader Could Make Life Easier For The Blind
Federico Guerrini, Forbes
2014
MIT Researchers Design Ring To Help Visually-Impaired People Read
Olivia B. Waxman, TIME
2014
MIT finger device reads to the blind in real time
WCVB TV
2014
MIT Finger Device Reads to the Blind in Real Time
Rodrique Ngowi, Associated Press (ABC, CBC and others)
2014
Interactive lighting experiences at ‘i Light Marina Bay 2014’
The Singapore Engineer Magazine
2014
FingerReader Is a 3D-Printed Device That Reads Text Aloud to the Blind
Kari Paul, Mashable
2014
Finger reader for the blind
SPH Razor TV
2014
Finger Computer Reads Books Aloud
Nic Halverson, Discovery News
2014
Der Ring, der lesen kann [The ring that can read]
Christina Endruschat, RTL
2014
Creating the next generation of innovators
Sunday Times, Sri Lanka
2014
A ring that reads text for the blind
Reuters Videos
2014
A New Type Of Ring Worn On The Finger Eliminates The Need For The Blind To Learn Braille
Dylan Love, Business Insider
2014
A device that could help the blind read
Craig Melvin, MSNBC
2014
5 amazing gadgets that are helping the blind see again
Simon Hill, Digital Trends
2014
3D-printed ring reads out text in real-time for the blind
Liat Clark, Wired (UK)
2014
300 Students Unite To Light-up Marina Bay
Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore
2014
'Seeing-Eye' Ring Helps Blind Read With Finger
Associated Press
2014

2013

Stick-on device helps the deaf to ‘hear’
RazorTV
2013
"Wireless device lends a listening ear"
Straits Times, Singapore
2013

2012

Suranga Nanayakkara – Against the Odds
2012
EyeRing finger-mounted connected cam captures signs and dollar bills, identifies them with OCR
Engadget
2012
Camera-toting EyeRing could help blind people to "see" objects
Gizmag
2012
Augmented Reality, Wrapped Around Your Finger
Technology Review
2012

2010

Haptic Chair - rupavahini interview Part 2
Sri Lanka Rupavahini, 2010
2010
Haptic Chair - rupavahini interview Part 1
Sri Lanka Rupavahini, 2010
2010
"New Technology to Help the Hearing Impaired Enjoy Music"
Innovation: The magazine of Research & Technology
2010

2009

"New technology to help the deaf enjoy music"
National University of Singapore Research Gallery
2009
"Hearing through sight"
National University of Singapore Research Gallery
2009

2008

"Haptic Chair hearing for the deaf"
The Island, Sri Lanka
2008