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The owner of the business, Bobbi Barton, adjusted her 3D printing machine to manufacture headbands for protective face shields worn by doctors and nurses instead of the cookie cutters that it normally makes. The shields are donated and shipped to Newton Medical Center.
Read MoreThe company developed a documentary called ‘The Birders’ which tells the story of a birdwatching road trip. If the documentary is watched alongside the species-spying checklist created by the company then participants are able to play along and try their best to identify more than 100 Colombian bird species from home.
Read MoreOpposite Office founder Benedikt Hartl wrote an open letter to the German minister of health, Jens Spahn, proposing the idea to temporarily convert the unopened, 220,000-square-metre airport, turning it into a ‘superhospital’ to treat COVID patients.
Read MoreToo Good To Go CEO, Mette Lykke, launched “We Care” this week a non-profit initiative that makes the platform available to all food businesses looking to provide takeaway services during COVID.
Read MoreThe increase of searches for ‘working from home,’ ‘freezer meals,’ or ‘indoor activities with kids’ over the past two weeks in the US has encouraged the company to showcase inspiration from popular categories such as self-care tips and kid-friendly baking daily.
Read MoreThe IT tech company ICIT provided the shop with an intelligent camera that follows how many people enter and leave the shop. If there are too many people inside, a red traffic light signals other people to wait outside.
Read MoreLoganair has announced that it is working with the Scottish Ambulance Service. The company has converted one of its Twin Otter aircrafts enabling it to carry COVID-infected patients in Epishuttle isolation pods to support the NHS during this time of crisis.
Read MoreThe club is asking fans to join in on making donations that will provide meals to frontline caregivers as well as relief for their personal costs.
Read MoreThe closure of cinemas has prompted the studios to utilise streaming services. Disney released Frozen 2 as a surprise on its streaming service Disney+. Onward was made available for purchase via on-demand services for USD 19.99 and it will be added to Disney+ this month.
Read MoreThe world’s largest furniture manufacturer, Ikea, is using its vast supply chain to produce masks, hand sanitiser, visors, and aprons to help medical workers.
Read MoreSomething Positive helps people feel more optimistic by spreading the latest good news and success stories around COVID.
Read MoreBy entering details about your consumption of toilet paper - visits to the toilet per day, wipes per trip, your number of toilet paper rolls left and the number of people in the house - the toilet calculator will tell you how much toilet paper you need for your quarantine.
Read MoreThe initiative, the Covid-19 Health Literacy Project, has already translated essential COVID information about prevention and treatment options, among other issues, in over 35 languages, including Navajo, Oromo (spoken by an ethnic group in Ethiopia), and Swahili.
Read MoreThe MIT team created a ventilator design affordable and easily able to replicate that costs approximately $500. The team will share the design online so that companies can recreate the lifesaving device for hospitals around the world.
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 MoreEpic is transforming its former headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, into a child care centre open 24 hours a day and seven days a week for kids whose parents are working local hospitals treating patients with COVID - for free.
Read MoreBecky Wass from Cornwall (UK) created a postcard that allows people to offer help to their neighbours, with spaces for a name, address, phone number and possible tasks that the recipient might need help with, including “picking up shopping” and “a friendly phone call”.
Read MoreAlibaba's research institute said they had trained the AI model with sample data from more than 5,000 confirmed cases, and that it can complete its disease recognition process within 20 seconds with an accuracy of up to 96%.
Read MoreSeveral sports data companies now offer 'virtual' sports betting products powered by AI algorithms. The ATP Tennis Tour is now partnering with IMG Arena on the creation of an officially licensed tennis product with the hope that gamblers will be seduced by the authenticity.
Read MoreAny craft brewery in the world can download the open-source recipe and the label to join the All Together project, provided they donate a portion of the proceeds to an organisation that benefits hospitality workers.
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