Inventions on show in Warsaw
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
12.02.2014 10:18
Inventors showed off some innovative new gadgets produced last year at the Warsaw Stock Exchange on Tuesday ahead of a special event at the Copernicus Science Centre.
Marek Rauchfleisz with his Mars rover. Photo: PAP/Leszek Szymanski
The 21st Exchange of Inventions event brings together 51 groundbreaking Polish ideas that were recognised internationally in 2013.
“What we have here is the creme de la creme of the most innovative part of society,” enthused Professor Jacek Gulinski, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education.
Gulinski said that the inventors “somehow manage to think differently to the rest of us.”
Photo: PAP/Leszek Szymanski
The inventions on display take in novelties created by schoolchildren, students, teachers and full-fledged engineers.
Visitors to the free event will be able to peruse such contraptions as talking maps, and a 'torch' for blind people.
The gadgets include creations by youngsters who have yet to enter secondary school. Nine-year-old Marek Rauchfleisz (pictured above) managed to create a Mars rover for exploring the “Red Planet.”
Meanwhile, student Przemyslaw Wolnicki (pictured left) has built a contraption that increases the power of the human grip.
The 21st Exchange of Inventions lasts until 5 pm local time on Wednesday. Works on dislpay were recognised at international design fairs in Brussels, Paris and Seoul, among others. (nh)
Source: PAP