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The Biosensor Patch 1AX, affixed on the chest area, will record temperature, respiration rate, ECG trace, heart rate and movement, in real-time. The data can then be sent wirelessly from the patch to an app on the user’s phone, where it is displayed and analysed.
Read MoreDevelopers in Singapore undertook a huge effort to build a comprehensive app for contact tracing and now want to help others by making it open source. The app helps identify people who have had close contact with a COVID patient to prevent spreading the infection further.
Read MoreStudents from colleges including the University of Pennsylvania, Berklee School of Music, and Oberlin College are recreating physical buildings on their campuses by designing 1:1-scale replicas within the popular Minecraft’s game universe.
Read MoreThe free-to-download app is designed to make it easy to self-report whether or not people feel well and what symptoms they are experiencing. It also asks for information about being tested for COVID and whether they are in self-isolation.
Read MoreAI Biokinetic Technologies and Aspen Clinical Research are hoping to get a final approval for their COVID AI 19 app which uses AI to give COVID test results, thanks to a thermal temperature reading, an audio analysis and an X-ray analysis of the lungs, all on your phone.
Read MoreDaniel Ahmadizadeh and Christopher Smeder designed Quarantine Together, an app for virtual dating. Every day at 6 p.m., the app asks its users whether they washed their hands. If they say yes, they are introduced to another user by text, and will be offered a link to video chat after 15 minutes.
Read MoreThis tool developed in partnership with The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) enables people to know more about COVID and to understand what to do depending on their symptoms, after answering a few questions.
Read MoreTom Goddard, a programmer at the University of California, San Francisco, has created with his colleagues a molecular vizualisation program called ChimeraX that enables to manipulate 3D models of the COVID virus with a depth-sensing camera and a VR headset.
Read MoreThe WHO Viber chatbot is giving users notifications with the latest news and information regarding the virus. The chatbot allows people to verify true and false assumptions regarding the virus through an interactive quiz that is available in multiple languages.
Read MoreSPACES allows a user to join a video conference from within VR and use an adjustable virtual camera and whiteboard with markers. It is available to download for PC VR and is easy to install and use.
Read MoreThe social platform Nextdoor enables people to offer services to their neighbours in need, like buying groceries, sharing their toilet paper or walking people’s dogs.
Read MoreThe website enables people that can provide support on subjects like working from home, navigating being suddenly out of work, taking care of a child or ailing parent care to connect remotely with people that need help.
Read MoreTo fight COVID, Nvidia is asking PC gamers to download an application that links computers into an international network using distributed processing power to chew through massive computing tasks.
Read MoreThe government of South Korea asks travelers to the country to download a self-quarantine app to curb the spread of COVID. The GPS-based app helps monitor people self-quarantined at home, by for example setting off an alarm if people leave their designated location.
Read MoreThe AVATOUR remote presence platform enables business people to visit and inspect facilities remotely in real-time thanks to the use of Insta360’s 360-degree cameras, providing a substitute for travel during the lockdown.
Read MoreChatbot app DoNotPay launched a new service to help you delay your rent, credit card, or utility bill payments. The company opened a new chatbot that requests waivers and payment extensions to both landlords and companies, using relevant local and state laws.
Read MoreLiveMD launched a new app where people can track COVID in their local area, self-diagnose themselves using an AI-based integrated tool, report their coronavirus status for tracking, and connect with local government and medical agencies for help and guidance.
Read MoreVula Mobile - an app for secure medical referral and chat - is being used to direct funds raised by the non-profit Gift of the Givers to medical facilities throughout South Africa. These funds are intended to assist in treating coronavirus patients.
Read MoreResearchers of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) developed a solution to assist the government in monitoring citizens in quarantine during the coronavirus outbreak by introducing geo-fencing technology.
Read MoreAn MIT app that tracks where you have been and who you have crossed paths with—and then shares this personal data with other users in a privacy-preserving way—could help curb the spread of Covid.
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