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.
The ‘COVID-19 Preparedness’ app enables patients to self-screen and healthcare volunteers to triage using smartphones, broadening the capacity for emergency response in rural or underserved communities. The app can also help track the spread and containment of the virus.
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 MoreThe CEO of Lotus has offered the UK government its Hethel facility in Norfolk, England, to use it as a make-shift hospital in the war against COVID.
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 MoreMain Page fills its windows each week with different merchandise for people who want to get out and window shop from their cars or take a walk outside of their home. Customers who are interested in items can call or email the store and arrange for a touch-free pickup. Items can be taken home and tried on before finalising a purchase.
Read MoreUber Eats is teaming up with French supermarket group Carrefour for a new delivery service aimed at helping people stuck at home buy essential goods and food. Berlin-based online marketplace Delivery Hero has also made changes to its operations spanning more than 40 countries to help get groceries to customers.
Read MoreMattel launches the Playroom, a free online resource which features activities and content from the company’s portfolio of brands including American Girl, Barbie, Fisher-Price, Hot Wheels, Thomas & Friends and more.
Read MoreThe website launched by caretaking and mental health online blog Girl’s Night In is full of activities, recommendations, and other ideas to help people stay in and take care of themselves and others, with a daily updates.
Read MoreThe ‘Free Public Support Group to Manage Coronavirus Anxiety’ is a free therapist-led Facebook group by US online therapy platform Talkspace that can provide support to anyone struggling with anxiety during COVID.
Read MoreDylan Coonrad, the creative director at Cannon Design wonders what it would look like if the universally recognisable street signs were no longer applicable. And he proposes new ideas of street signs to navigate public spaces in times of social distancing.
Read MoreAlex Frost and Tyler Mantel, both entrepreneurs with startups in MassRobotics in Boston, co-founded a non-profit called 'The Ventilator Project'. They quickly recruited a team of over 15 engineers to rapidly prototype a low-cost ventilator for global distribution.
Read MoreThe new dashboard pinpoints how many days until hospitals in different regions of the US reach ‘capacity failure’. For example, it indicates, on 2nd April: Portland, Oregon: 18 days ; Los Angeles: 14 days.
Read MoreThe contactless platform aims to make physical contact for deliveries redundant as collecting signatures can further spread COVID. The app allows users to scan a shipping label on their package and provides a digital signature as proof-of-receipt.
Read MoreTo connect with the communities in Burlington County the police departments are holding Xbox live tournaments, buying hundreds of pizzas to deliver to the community’s children in need and much more.
Read MoreGlobal automotive giant Mercedes-Benz joins the world's biggest brands such as McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Volkswagen, Audi and Nike in promoting social distancing through new logos.
Read MoreThe cancellation of an opportunity to market cattle stock influenced Graham and Lynn Pluess to turn to social media with live video viewings of their cattle in order to continue selling them to customers across the region and beyond.
Read MoreA group of historians, public health officials, and students have created a digital archive named the Coronavirus Chronicles. The website invites people from across the globe to write about their day-to-day life, submit poems, and upload photos or videos.
Read MoreFilaindiana.it shows users how crowded supermarkets are in different areas, this allows them to make a more informed decision on when to shop safely.
Read MoreShift suggests that implementing micro-markets that operate on a hyper local scale during COVID could enable fresh food to continue being delivered to the city's inhabitants. The hyper-local nature limits the amount of traffic and reduces the pressure on supermarkets.
Read MoreAshley Lawrence created masks with a plastic window so that the mouth is visible for speech and lip-reading. This alteration makes the masks suitable for people with cochlear implants and hearing aids.
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