Want China Times
Date: 2015-10-16
By: CNA

Taiwanese inventors have won 35 gold medals, 23 silver and 11 bronze, as

Prizewinning members of Taiwan’s delegation at the show. (Photo courtesy of Chinese Innovation and Invention Society)

well as eight special prizes, at the 2015 International Warsaw Invention Show, making the country the second-biggest winner after the host country Poland, the Taipei-based Chinese Innovation and Invention Society said Thursday.

A total of 425 submissions from 25 countries, including 82 from Taiwan, were entered in the Oct. 12-14 show, according to the society.

Among Taiwan’s top winners is a group from Kaohsiung’s Cheng Shiu University, which has designed a modular “air bag” system that can prevent ships from sinking.