Press and Awards

2021
	The venture empowering young Kiwi innovators and critical thinkers. 2021. University of Auckland Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
	Novel interactive science kits sent out free to schools \| Kiwrious. 2021. The University of Auckland
	World Changing Ideas Awards 2021: Education \| Finalist \| Kiwrious. 2021. Fast Company
	World Changing Ideas Awards 2021: Asia-Pacific \| Honorable Mention \| Kiwrious. 2021. Fast Company
	Excellence in graduate supervision 2020. 2021. The University of Auckland
	Excellence in research translation 2020. 2021. The University of Auckland
	WIPO Technology Trends Report: Assistive Technologies. 2021. World Intellectual Property Organization
	Inspiring curiosity for science in kids with Google Cloud solutions . 2021. Google Cloud

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

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

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

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

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. December 2016
	Ring helps people 'see', thanks to grant. September 2016. Straits Times
	Suranga received INK Fellowship. September 2016. INK Fellows Program
	Singapore Design Award 2016 for FingerReader. August 2016. Design Business Chamber Singapore
	Universal Design Enables Everyone \| Suranga Nanayakkara. June 2016. TEDxYouth@Palmerston
	Sharper Senses - Devices mimicking our natural senses. June 2016. BBC
	zSense: Most Promising Technology Award at IHL Tech Pitching Event. May 2016. InnovFest 2016
	El lector de libros artificial. April 2016. Antena3.com
	zSense: First place in Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Bootcamp pitch competition. February 2016
	Technology enables people with disabilities. February 2016. CCTV.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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