Back in early 2020, TrendWatching launched ‘Covid Innovations’ to inspire entrepreneurs and marketers to serve their customers better in dire covid times.
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Heatmaps enables users to discover new training routes in their neighborhood, find the popular local spots or stay safe and keep their distance by avoiding the much-travelled trails. Heatmaps is available on Suunto app and offline with Suunto 7 sport watches.
Read MoreDrive-in gigs and paid virtual tours could change the party scene forever for innovative artists: event organisers see things getting better only by mid-2021 but even then new protocols would mean higher social distancing, small scale shows and lesser audiences.
Read MoreTops Market, a supermarket chain in Bangkok, placed a robot at the front of the store that can read customers' temperatures then trigger an alarm and deny entry if it is too high. The device was developed by Central Tech, a subsidiary of Central Group, the largest retailer in Thailand. Using facial recognition technology, the monitor also sounds an alarm and prevents customers from entering if they are not wearing masks.
Read MoreThe specific program, #HomelessHostelsWork, aims at saving lives and ensuring that homeless people who enter won't be forced into homelessness again as soon as the COVID crisis ends. The #HomelessEntrepreneur’s team works with hostel and hotels, active citizens and businesses, local NGOs and local governing bodies to offer the best support as possible.
Read MoreAs the majority of people's next interviews will be led and offered virtually due to COVID, Talent Web offers video interviews to practice a mock behavioural style interview and get real-time tips and advice by their Career Coaches. Then users will be able to receive their evaluation report and video, to practice and prepare.
Read MoreAs many retailers have been forced to cancel orders placed in factories in countries like Bangladesh, Lost Stock offers surprise boxes, which contain three tops, directly from the factories, made for well-known brands who cancelled their orders, such as Topshop or C&A. Nearly 40 % of the proceeds from the sale of the boxes are then donated to factory workers.
Read MoreThe Kids Education Engagement Program (KEEP) in Liberia with support from the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) has launched an easy-to-read book to teach children about the novel COVID pandemic. The book called 'An Activity Book for Early Learners' will be distributed free of charge to about 3,000 children and their parents
Read MoreLondon-based furniture designer Steve Brooks created a device to help people ‘touch’ surfaces safely: You can grip the hook and use it to push, pull or turn a door handle. Designed by Seattle-based designers, a wearable 'bracelet' alerts users when they mindlessly touch their face, eyes, lips or nose. Then the Danish company, UVD Robots, makes robots capable of disinfecting cabins and operating theatres in hospitals, using an array of ultraviolet C rays to destroy the RNA of the virus.
Read MoreThe UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has launched a trial for drones to ferry COVID tests and personal protective equipment to a hospital on the Isle of Mull, off the coast of Scotland. If the trial is successful, Skyports says it will expand drones to bring supplies to other remote parts of the UK.
Read MoreChola paceña' refers to women who were born in La Paz (paceñas) and are proud of their urban indigenous identity. Mónica Calizaya and her friend Reina Guitiérrez invented biosafety suits that have details to protect them while maintaining the elegance of the chola paceña suit.
Read MoreTyler Glaiel made a mask that mirrors the natural movement of the mouth with lights. He detailed how to make the mask at home thanks to photos and instructions in a DIY guide, and explained anyone 15 or older could make it (although comfort using soldering tools is required).
Read MoreMikomax Smart Office's ebook helps understand the concerns and needs of different employee groups in returning to the office and how to rearrange the office in a safe way, giving practical advice.
Read MoreAs more than 70% of transactions are made in cash in Latin America, Nos launched a money sanitizer: the device has an upper and lower surface of UVC LED lamps that emit light on both sides of coins and bills reducing substantially the risk of infection.
Read MoreThe Seaside Finolhu hotel in the Maldives will reopen in July 2020 with a novel room concept designed to lure guests: the Beach Bubble room, a private cocoon with a prime location on the beachfront. This Bubble room will be ideal for holidays in a post-COVID world.
Read MoreHorizon FCB Dubai created the campaign ‘Waste Can Mask Our Future’, launched remotely from the team’s homes in lockdowns across the Middle East and beyond. The idea is to make people aware of the impact disposable masks are having on our environment, while staying safe and getting the best possible protection thanks to reusable and washable masks.
Read MoreThe idea of the ‘ANYTHING’ face shield is that masks can be designed with anything that’s around you, from a used bag of pasta, to an empty packet of sweets, that can be added in the frame of the face shield taking the form of a pair of glasses with large clips at the top and bottom, into which you can insert your chosen transparent material.
Read MoreHyundai Motor provides fleets of vehicles to frontline personnel to better enable their mobility when they need it the most. The company also works closely with governments to support communities that have been hit hardest by COVID in the form of donations, medical equipment, and personal protection items, and offer programs to take care of their customers in need during this difficult time.
During quarantine, Lithuanians had their spirits lifted by the beautiful rendition of the patriotic song Lietuva Brangi ('Dear Lithuania') by 67 professional voices, members of multiple choirs from Vilnius University and the well-known singer Vaidas Baumila, who once sang for the country at Eurovision, all recorded remotely. It also featured social leaders repeating the message 'stay home, be happy' in sign language.
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Read MoreThe tent can be used with personal protective equipment as an additional protection in situations where healthcare workers are highly exposed to COVID. It is designed to be used in hospitals during intubation and extubation and at transporting highly infectious patients between wards as well as in ambulances.
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