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Category: New Products in Taiwan
We’ve been to some of these fine shows in the past. (SEARCH will display pictures). Inventions show was enjoyable, Plastics and Rubber Show was not about wet suit neoprene as I’d hoped, it was more to do with huge machines made in Taiwan. Taiwan International Voltaic Exhibition was solar power panels – very interesting indeed. I’m not familiar with the others listed here. Computer and camera shows attract a huge audience when held earlier in the year. The travel expo was the busiest I’ve attended. The auto show is also huge.
Catch the MRT to Taipei City Hall station then a bus or taxi to the World Trade Centre next door to Taipei 101 building. Admission is usually quickly organized if you have a few business cards, (name cards) with you.
Events are usually promoted in the daily English language newspaper, Taipei Times, a day before the show.
What a treat for the kids in Taipei. Outside the summer temperature is in the mid- thirties, inside it’s well below freezing. Polar Expo is a giant warehouse-like building full of ice sculptures and giant fans keeping things freezing. Warm jackets are essential. Admission tickets might be purchased from a scalper nearby – slightly cheaper than at the door.
Indoors kids pelt frozen balls of ice at anyone within range. After half an hour it’s beginning to get cold. Our rear ends are wet from a slide down a real slippery dip of solid ice.
What a good idea for North Queensland (Australia) – it will never happen though.
Tip #1 – select a day when the sky is clear
Tip #2. Avoid the glass bottom version (every fourth cabin) if there is a long line waiting. The gondola is too high above the rain forest canopy to see anything worthwhile below.
Tip #3 If the view is exceptional, chances are the food isn’t. Near Maokong Station.
Tip #4 Go for a walk along ZhiNan Road. There’s a regular bus if you need a ride. Beautiful rain forest scenery far superior to anything available in the tropical north of Australia. Highly under-rated by locals I fear.
Tip #5 Sample some tea but don’t expect same value as McDonald’s.
Tip#6 It can be cool, have a jacket handy.
Patented Japanese invention purifies fresh or sea water aquariums with the slow-release of a biological agent.
Lasts 12-18 months. Price about US$50 per block. Larger industrial versions for creeks, large tanks, available.
Inquiries to http://be-bio.com.tw Also http://big-bio.com
AquaPets magazine is published six times each year. NT $160 per copy. Pictured: Cherrie Chen Website: http://aqua-pets.com.tw
Mr Yu-Ho Lin (left) of JY LIN TRADING CO LTD
World breakthrough. With gene technology, seven years work in the laboratory and NT $10 million spent so far, fluorescent fish of various colors. Not yet permitted for sale – awaiting approval. jylin1236 (at) gmail.com
Plants, flowers with an aquarium below. Cost about US $15,000 including installation. Get’s my vote as best display of the show. The artist is Vic, pictured. http://gardenmall.com.tw
Taiwanese have not been keen swimmers or divers. A current study in the number of swimming pools in Japan and Taiwan shows a ratio difference of 188 to 9.6 in Taiwan, per 100,000 people.
The ratio of drownings for kids under age 14 per 100,000 is 0.6 and 1.8 between Japan and Taiwan.
It’s a pity that Taiwanese have been missing out on enjoying the beauties and adventure of the real underwater world, (not just in fish tanks) which is hopefully, soon to change.
John Harding as interviewed for Chinese language TV show – New York and Taipei. Praise for the quality of exhibits “some are better than what we see underwater – within reason”.
AMAZING CLOTHES LINE
There’s an outdoor sensor which detects moisture. So the washing is automatically withdrawn into the tiny shed by a motor somewhere.
MINI BUBBLE & SPAR BATH FOR FEET OR PETS
The English language newspaper mentioned this as a device for washing small pampered pets, which it can be. Pictures elsewhere show a cat that was cured of dermatitis after two weeks of daily baths. (I bet it was glad when that was over)! Similar benefits for people with skin problems. The water gets energized somehow with positive or negative ions. They are claiming it’s oxygen doing the trick but I feel it’s compressed air. (A common translation error – if it is an error)?
At about AUD $3000 it’s a luxury hot bath for feet.
A compressor somewhere puts tiny bubbles in the water which account for the milky look. There is a heater somewhere that will keep hot water hot.
The benefits are many.
Ideal for hospitals or for those who have know the benefit of hot foot-baths.
I would not mind one of these……
Website details will be added here, later. Remember to click your refresh button.
LED LIGHT BULBS
Tonia Jiang of unibrite-tech.com
Many Australians are seriously worried about the new light bulbs which are being forced upon us as energy saving devices. (If you break one there are toxic fumes – warning leave the house).
Here is the solution but it’s five times more expensive than the current expensive bulbs. In a few years the cost of LED bulbs will reduce dramatically. This is the future. LED bulbs are cool to touch.
DEVICE FOR MODERN DOCTORS
This diagnostic apparatus is being used by about eighty physicians in Taiwan already. In ten minutes a patient’s weak points in various organs can be determined. Cancer (whether present or not present) can be detected. Plus the aura and strong points.
Both hands are firmly placed on the metal sensors. Results for the physician are shown on a computer monitor nearby.
Probably only Chinese and complimentary practitioners are going to be interested in Australia. Mainstream might take more convincing. How it actually works is for the buyer to determine.
The website details will be posted here. Thanks to Mr. Kevin Chen (pictured) for demonstrating and giving me the result, a reading to that of a 30 year-old, if I understood correctly.
WATERPROOF ROLLER DOOR AND MORE
The main invention is a water-tight door, a roller door. Not for a garage but for any building in a flood prone area. (Lower right picture with model).
Other devices by the same company are odor prevention drain plugs that also prevent regurgitation of drain water – a problem when flood waters begin to rise. The secret in a rubber flange fitted to a spring loaded lid (in reverse). That’s probably an hilarious description for experts but so long as you get the gist of it. (Both larger pictures show this device).
The toilet idea (top left picture) would be ideal for ships in a rough sea. It’s a method of stopping septic tank contents spilling. Brilliant – even luxury ships can have a serious problem in the lower deck cabins.
‘GROWING YOUR OWN’ – NOW WITH LED LIGHTS
This would be popular in South Australia I’d imagine. Saves money on power bills too.
