Taiwan finishes 3rd in terms of medal count at 2018 Invent Arena

　Taiwanese exhibitors took part in the 2018 INVENT ARENA in the Czech Republic to bag 6 gold medals, 3 silver medals, 1 bronze medal, and 1 special prize among 200 inventions, coming in third and trailing behind Czech at No. 1 and Poland at No. 2 among the 22 participating countries including the US, Russia, Poland, United Arab Emirates, China, and Indonesia.  

　One of the Taiwanese gold medalists is Professor HSU Tzu-Kui, who invents the “wind turbine with trailing jet pilot for continuous operation in all weather”.  Other Taiwanese gold-winning inventions include “QMAX Pillow Set”, which is an assistive pillow with rehabilitating function developed by a 70-year old rehabilitation therapist, HONG Si-Wen and his song HONG Qi-Wei, the “solar photovoltaic monitoring system with cost-efficiency, automatic monitoring, evaluation, and warning function” created by TSAI Liang-Huan, HUANG Rong-Geng, and XU Jia-Zhong of Da Yeh University, and also the “fire evacuation and warning device” developed by CHEN Wen-Liang, ZHU Xiu-Yi, and ZHANG Jia-Yu.  In addition, 3D Global Biotech Inc. also received a gold medal and a special prize with its invention, “a technology platform for hair regeneration using stem cell”.  (June 2018)

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