Linda Din’s Linhorn Indicator
Written by Peter Li-Chang Kuo ( Chinese ) The soul of technology is “ compassion .” In 1986, when Mattel closed its Taiwan factory (MLT) and moved to Malaysia , leaving 5,000 people unemployed, Linda Din witnessed the pain of laid-off workers who had switched to driving taxis but were then robbed. She therefore made a vow to invent a safe, cashless in-car earning system — known as “ TES ” for short. This invention, based on “ Social Responsibility Investment ” (SRI), was reported in 1989 by " Economic Daily News " and " Commercial Times " for its development progress in the “ RF Transmitter ” and “ TAXI CHIP ,” and thus became a paradigm for the world’s new technology-based economic system. Fig 1: 1989 Report and RF Transmitter Social Responsibility Investment (SRI) Ahead of the World This SRI invention integrated " RF Transmitter, Power Chip, and TranSmart Card ," with complete functions for “ identity identification and cashless payment .” Whe...