Taiwanese designs lit up this year's Red Dot Design Awards on Friday. A total of 17 design concepts garnered Red Dot awards and three won the "Best of the Best" title given only to the top designs.
This year's best design concepts and prototypes emerged in a total of 29 categories with 4,791 entries from 63 countries. A total of 202 designs won the Red Dot award while 40 were granted the Best of the Best designation.
The world's best designs of the year were honored at the Red Dot Design Museum Singapore on Friday evening, with winning designers including some from Taiwan, flying in to receive their awards.
One of Taiwan's three Best of the Best designs is an energy-harvesting technology developed by the Industrial Technology Research Institute. It uses heat flux created by temperature differences to create energy, allowing users to charge things like cell phone batteries.
Another one of the three top designs was a teaching tool called "Fun Pinball", developed by a group from National Yunlin University of Science and Technology. It allows students to draw and combine magnetic toy vehicle tracks on blackboards or whiteboards.