That was the first little gadget fired off by the ITRI's electronics laboratory. It might have been small fry, but it did bring in no mean amount of foreign exchange. A number of other prominent Taiwanese exports, such as telephones, carbon-fiber bicycles and sunglasses are also due in large part to the sweat off the brows of the ITRI workers.
那是工研院電子所最早一砲打響的小玩意，雖是「小技」，卻也為台灣賺進不少外匯；其他許多「台灣第一」的出口商品如電話、碳纖維腳踏車、太陽眼鏡等等，也都有不少工研人的心血。