Back in early 2020, TrendWatching launched ‘Covid Innovations’ to inspire entrepreneurs and marketers to serve their customers better in dire covid times.
With Covid thankfully no longer impacting daily life, we’re fully focused again on all innovations that make the world a little bit better - check out Daily, our free publication to stay on top of the latest trends, insights and innovations.
Starting in June, library patrons will be able to place orders for Curbside Pickup by calling or emailing their local branch, or by filling out a form on the library website. A maximum of 10 titles can be requested at once, and a maximum of 10 items can be checked out at one time.
Read MoreLondon Business School’s Real Innovation Awards is seeking to celebrate exciting business innovations forged during COVID in their ‘Innovation in Adversity Award’. Businesses can enter their application until May 29th.
Read MoreThe Royal Academy of Engineering launched its Project CARE (COVID Africa Rapid Entrepreneurs) initiative, an international collaboration of academic, health and funding bodies in the UK and engineering entrepreneurs in Africa. The program is already helping local engineers to deliver products and services needed in the fight against COVID in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa.
Read MoreThe testing of robots is made using Kiwibot, a delivery robot from a Colombian owned company in California, and is part of a pilot in Medellin, with potential to expand. The project aims at limiting contact in times of COVID.
Read MoreBangkok's Seacon Square has swapped elevator buttons for foot pedals in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID as well as help restore normalcy and get shoppers spending again.
The iSpere is made out of 2 transparent hollow hemispheres tapped together, with a hole that fits our heads. The whole procedure takes around 30 minutes to make and the costs for the material are around 24,- €. Additional gadgets can give a unique touch to any iSphere: it can have a sunshade, a mirrored layer, an integrated microphone, a speaker, a ventilator, or a snorkel.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 Design Directory, made possible thanks to a grant from the Kelson Foundation, gathers all new design initiatives born during COVID in 3 areas: Personal Protective Equipment, Safety Guidelines & Campaigns and Physical & Social Distancing.
Read MoreThe country's Health Ministry announced that five anti-epidemic robots, named Akazuba, Ikirezi, Mwiza, Ngabo, and Urumuri, will be used to administer temperature checks, monitor patient status, and keep medical records of COVID patients.
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Read MoreTo help local business owners struggling to meet an increased demand for online deliveries during COVID, HERE Technologies helps them move their business from storefront to delivery with their route planning tool, at no cost until the end of 2020.
Read MoreThe platform aims at making visible the needs of the hospitals, captures the donations, channels the deliveries to the beneficiaries, records the deliveries in images and publishes them in the same space as a proof of the cleanliness of the process, making donations transparent from their collection to their delivery.
Read MoreThe Flame Jazz home delivery car can be ordered in the Turku area for people's own yard between 3 pm and 9 pm. The band will play about 15 minutes for one performance and subscribers can listen to music in the yard or from a window at a suitable safe distance. The initiative aims at supporting artists impacted by COVID.
Read MoreThe strong blast of ethanol or isopropyl alcohol in the disinfection unit intends to eliminate harmful infection-causing materials just before health care workers take off their personal protective equipment (PPE) .The modified disinfection units (MUDs) are donated to hospitals treating COVID patients by Favori Ventures Inc.
Read MoreThe Sound Of Colleagues is a substitute to the sound of colleagues in a workplace to anyone working from home, missing it. Just unmute the website and start working with typical workplace background noise.
Read MoreIn Domino Park in Brooklyn, people sit in circles designed to encourage social distancing as they relax. Another creative example are the plastic barriers ensuring social distancing between diners at Penguin Eat Shabu restaurant in Bangkok, or the directions drawn on the ground to enter the buildings while maintaining social distancing in an Albanese secondary school.
Read MoreUK Innovate agency has awarded UrbanThings a grant to develop COVID social distancing and contact tracing platform for public transport operators. It will capture occupancy information in transports from sources including smart card tap-in data, and forward it to the operators and passengers.
Read MoreThe fast food giant posted on social media that some restaurants in Germany are handing out the DIY social distance crowns to enforce rules of high safety and hygiene, and remind guests to practice social distancing in a fun and playful way.
Read MoreIn collaboration with artists Craig Hemming and Lucy Bradbury, Carolina Mizrahi created Exquisite, the isolation muse. The muse, that 'loves to collect handbags and dance in the nude', is featured on different pictures with the team's favorite Spring/Summer accessories.
Read MoreWorried about how her 11-year-old son Harry would be able to keep to social distancing once he was back in the classroom, she designed a low-cost desk divider with a Perspex window which still allows the child to see out into the classroom while being protected.
Read MoreThe Administrator says the city needs to be creative and take risks by creating a pedestrian promenade on State Street in favour of pedestrians to accommodate restaurants that will need to place tables at least 6 feet apart to meet social distancing rules.
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