UpbeatIn Stockholm, Bangladeshi engineers won a 'Nobel of fashion' — for glasses that spot fabric flaws
Md Ridwan Hossain stood in Stockholm City Hall — where Nobel laureates dine — thinking of workers on factory floors back home. His startup threadBridge won the H&M Foundation's Global Change Award 2026 for AI-powered smart glasses that help fabric inspectors spot defects in real time, before cloth is cut and wasted. It was the only Bangladeshi winner among ten, and the tools are designed to support inspectors, not replace them.
The upbeat factoryoung engineers solving a home problem — and being honoured for it on the world's stage.
SDG 9 · Industry, innovation and infrastructure — Mechanism: tech innovation
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