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The solution, called The Interspace Lite, creates partitions around economy-class seats by leaving the middle seat of three vacant and by installing concave padded shells on them, which are the same height as the seat. These shells can be installed on 90% of economy seats and provide a degree of privacy as well as protection for post-COVID travels.
Read MoreThe Helios_DIY & Helios_Pro products are high-tech multipurpose devices to help hospital staff and patients during an emergency with recovery. They include daylight-therapy, video call devices, a live cam to monitor patient parameters, and enable a moment of privacy to break isolation and reconnect with the external world.
Read MoreThe performance rights organisation SOCAN has created a new program, called Encore!, to help deliver royalties to artists performing online during COVID. The program is retroactive from March 15 of this year until March 7, 2021. Each online concert on Facebook or Instagram is eligible for a total payment of CAD $150 (USD $109), with the royalties split amongst all the rights holders of the music performed.
Read MoreSince May 11, Paris has been partnering with advertising company JCDecaux to add hand sanitizer dispensers to the walls of 1,500 bus stations and 435 public restrooms, which represents three-quarters of bus shelters and all public toilets.
Read MoreMartin Binder and Claudio Rimmele came up with the Rimbin concept, a space that provides children with individual platforms, allowing them to see, communicate and play games with each other safely. Parents, meanwhile, are able to keep an eye out from a distance.The platforms, inspired by giant water lilies, are modular, meaning that the layout can be configured depending on expected traffic.
Read MoreThe 6 Feet Office solution includes the 6 Feet Routing, a visually displayed routing for each office, making traffic flows safe, the 6 Feet Workstation, an adapted and fully equipped workplace at which the user can work safely, and a 6 Feet Facility, a trained employee who advises on and ensures an optimally functioning and safe facility environment.
Read MoreThis conceptual toaster, designed by Lee Sungwook, makes disinfecting phones a little easier and more playful. The toaster also charges the phone while disinfecting it during the time it is being ‘toasted’ and you can’t take it out until it’s done. While the concept is still being developed, it certainly uses UV light to disinfect and sanitise the phone while wirelessly charging it.
Read MoreŠkoda has released a set of three new stop-frame adverts entirely shot from home using toy cars, made by agency Optimist and produced by Halal. Keen to show how 'creativity beats crisis', this campaign showcases a typical car ad made distinctive using miniatures of Škoda SUVs cars.
Read MoreIn a special online project, part of the city’s RISE season (which pays tribute to extraordinary women across the globe), Culture Liverpool will showcase podcasts, blogs, music, visual art, photography and film showing female responses to the crisis, exploring social inequalities, isolation and trying to understand the ‘new normal’.
Read MoreJapanese motorcycles manufacturer Yamaha launches the Remote Cheerer app that is meant to be linked to a stadium’s audio system so that athletes can hear the pre-recorded soundbites as if people were actually in the stands. They performed a field test earlier this month at Japan’s Shizuoka Stadium, with 58 speakers around the outdoor venue and users sending applause and jeers.
Read MoreEach Friday, shoppers can collect their orders where the market normally takes place. In this way and in a very short period of time, the Lokaalmarket has managed to keep its whole organisation going and to give access to a wide range of local and fresh products to its customers in one place.
Read MoreCentro Manufacturing Corporation is developing anti-COVID dividers for modern PUVs also available as ready-to-install kits that can be retrofitted to any existing utility vehicle (UV) and public utility vehicle (PUV). Installation can be done at any of Centro’s production facilities in the Philippines.
Read MoreLokaal Kilo's Schuiven, local food market in Groningen, partners with online platform De Streekboer from Drachten, which enables people to order directly from local farmers, to launch 'The Food Box'. The box is filled with local products from farmers (bread, dairy, fruits..), that would otherwise be wasted because the regular sales channels are closed due to COVID.
Read MoreA virtual protest on Animal Crossing: New Horizons made it possible to denounce violence without leaving home during COVID. It happened just after the Autonomous University of Nayarit (UAN) reported the death of Diana Carolina Raygoza Montes, a 21 year old who was studying law at the institution, which seemed to be a femicide and raised enormous social indignation.
Read MoreAGF Aarhus will welcome local rivals Randers for the reopening of the season, with a giant screen of 40 metres long and 3m high filled with fans watching via video link. Supporters have signed up for free tickets to take part, with two smaller screens allowing for neutrals and away fans to be there too. The concept, created in partnership with Zoom, has taken weeks of preparation.
Read MoreSupermarkets in Sweden like Axfood, Coop, Bergendahls and Lidl, have shown their willingness to support local producers by creating more space on store shelves for local products and by giving local food more ad space in the media.
Read MoreMask Neighbor is a list of more than 400 designers and retailers selling masks, with their price and availability (available, pre-order, out of stock) for anyone looking to buy a mask.
Read MoreLifeline Robotics' robot grabs the swab after the patient has scanned an ID card, then uses its vision system to identify the right points to swab in the patient’s throat. Once the swab is done, the robot places the sample in a jar and screws on the lid. The jar is then sent to a laboratory for analysis.
Read MoreWith the SODAR tool, your phone will use augmented reality to map the space around you, superimposing a two-meter radius circle on the view from your camera, to help keep proper social distancing. It is available on a Chrome browser at goo.gle/sodar (but won’t work on iOS or older Android devices).
Read MoreAt Bangkok's Central World, K9 patrols the ground floor with hand sanitiser strapped to his back, ready to provide it to any passing shopper. He is joined by LISA (Live Intelligent Service Assistant), a sleek white machine helping to direct people to the nearest bathroom and to remind them to wear their mandatory face masks. ROC (Robot For Care) uses a thermal scanner to take people's temperatures.
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