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White Sepal helps traditional learning institutes adopt technology services to keep going after lockdowns with the latest classroom technology and seamless fee payment, in addition to conducting live classes. It also offers special services like Tutoreal, an analytics-driven assessment platform.
Read MoreClients ordering meals at Bij de Tuinman can share a picture of their nicely made board on Facebook or instagram, tagging @At the Gardener in their message with #BordjevanBijdeTuinman. Every week, the best photo wins a bottle of wine. And the restaurant also makes Saturday's pick up dinners special with intimate performances in the vegetable garden.
Read MoreMatrix Booking helps its clients and staff going back to work by reducing the maximum capacity for each room to ensure the required distancing, by helping them eliminating the need for shared screens or increasing the distance in the shared area and sharing data like occupancy rates and real time statistics.
Read MoreThe exhibition, called ‘BEDSIT’, will showcase pieces made at home during the lockdown period by students who have applied to study, or are currently studying, at the Canterbury School of Visual Arts (CSVA), and aims at showing the current mood, focusing on the themes of ‘isolation’, ‘working from home’ and ‘lockdown’.
Read MoreIzu Shaboten zoo in Shizuoka has employed capybara stuffed animals in its restaurant to ensure distancing amid COVID regulations. The plush toys have been strategically placed throughout the restaurant’s tables and chairs, keeping customers company while making sure they maintain the right distance from each other.
Read MoreThe studio now offers public health and sanitisation products, like sanitising tunnels and booths. These tunnels can be used at the entry of high-density public places such as malls, airports, hospitals, bus and train stations, commercial and residential complexes and religious places.
Read MoreThis solution works on predictive analysis and uses layers of geospatial data to track, monitor, analyze and visually represent them into data stacks. These data stacks will help in route optimization in COVID positive zones that will help businesses in making statistically driven decisions.
Read MoreWith services running to revised timetables and passenger capacity reduced to as low as 10 per cent, this flexible new design can potentially alleviate the pressure on bus and underground services that are also under severe capacity constraints and commuters may be reluctant to use.
Read MoreBrewDog has been one of the first brewery to switch production to hand sanitizer for NHS staff and has now launched its 'manifesto' for the future of its bars, with a reduction of furniture for social distancing, capacity monitoring, cashless service and it own app to order beer from customers' table.
Read MoreChautauqua Park, that has always been a landmark for concerts, TEDx events or craft fairs, launches The Creative Community Project, an online art auction, featuring more than 70 pieces donated by local and international artists. All the proceeds will go to the park’s COVID-19 Relief Fund, COVID-19 Response Fund Boulder County and Boulder artists.
Read MoreTechbase aims to reduce the need for contact between package delivery personnel and customers. Techbase is currently seeking ideas and participation from the open source and industrial communities, based on its Smart Delivery Box.
Read MoreiWant released ‘Love Lockdown’, a fist of its kind film that has been shot by the actors themselves from their own homes. This was done in virtual coordination with their team of directors. Therefore, these actors had to also be responsible for their own production design, costumes, hair and makeup.
Read MoreMount Laurel native and Hollywood veteran Josh Sugarman partners with restaurateur Stephen Starr to launch an immersive pop-up experience. Philadelphia residents can order a 'Vampire.Pizza' meal for two or four that will be delivered by a Pizza Vamp (who will practice proper social distancing), along with a black box containing an interactive, immersive experience.
Read MoreRather than dumping its kegs of beer, Revolution Brewing teams up with Chicago’s CH Distillery to launch a first: Malort made from beer. The product, which goes on sale on Friday, 22nd May, is a mix between the city’s top-selling craft beer and the city’s most iconic spirit and badge of pride, an intensely bitter liqueur.
Read MoreMr Angilletta, owner of the restaurant, reopened it this week and will use fifteen cardboard customers to fill the space, along with a playlist of background noise simulating ‘guest chatter’ to ‘recreate a busy restaurant atmosphere.’
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Read MoreIkea has designed a set of manuals to fight against lockdown boredom, to teach people at home how to build fortresses, caves and wigwams out of furniture and household items.
Read MoreAirplanes have the unique ability to carry germs across continents and oceans, and they are not bound by regulations or standards for hygiene onboard. GermFalcon is a fast system in routine and emergency situations, that offers a solution for infection prevention and emergency preparedness in air travel.
Read MoreRamo modifies the packaging of its flagship product, chocoramo, and three other products to give a message of hope amid COVID. Its sliced bread is now called 'Unidos', 'Together', and other messages like 'Hugs' or 'Courage' are showcased on its products.
Read MoreVisitors to this traditional Japanese-style pub, Kichiri Shinjuku, are sprayed with a mist of disinfectant before they enter. Customers are greeted by a hostess on a monitor, who tells them to wash their hands and take their temperature with a thermometer.
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