Two INFE Year-3 students, Miss Do Ka Yui and Miss Tong Ka Yan, have won the Special Inventor Award for their project titled “Figano” (an invisible musical instrument gadget consisting of a pair of gloves and an app) and the Turkish Inventors and Inventions Association (TUMMIAD) Special Award for another project called “Veinian” (the finger vein authenticator) at iCAN 2017. The two winning projects are both supervised by Dr Ray Cheung, Associate Professor of EE. The two projects were awarded Gold Award and Silver Award respectively at the preliminaries in order to enter the final round.
Organized by Toronto International Society of Innovation & Advanced Skills (TISIAS), iCAN 2017 is arguably the first international invention exhibition and global networking event ever created in Canada for worldwide inventors to showcase their creative inventions, innovation projects and scientific research outcomes. The event this year attracted 415 applications from more than 30 countries and 121 inventions were exhibited at the Finals.
