A Taiwanese delegation received 28 gold medals, 24 silver and four special awards at the World Genius Convention and Education Expo held on Saturday and Sunday in Tokyo, the team leader said on Monday.
The haul made Taiwan the biggest winner in terms of medal count.
A team from Chienkuo Technology University in Changhua City won a special award for their design of an unplugged, portable outdoor cooking kit equipped with lamps and an exhaust emission system that generates power using exhaust gas, said Wu Chih-yao (吳智堯), the team leader and secretary-general of the Chinese Innovation and Invention Society.
A subsidiary of the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation secured a gold medal and a special award for a multi-functional folding furniture series that can be used for disaster relief work.
A team from Chung Hua University in Hsinchu won a gold medal for its invention of Plantimal, an Internet of Things device that can detect soil humidity and plays music to alert plant owners when the soil is too dry.
TCI Co, which operates four factories at the Pingtung Agricultural Biotechnology Park, took a gold medal and a special award for developing a health product using traditional Chinese medicine to improve erectile function.
It also won a silver medal for developing an enzyme using bananas, dubbed benzyme, that can prevent constipation.
This year, Taiwan’s winning works have high potential business value that can help domestic industries expand into international markets, Wu said.
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