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.
Lindsay Medoff, CEO of Suay Sew Shop, a small boutique LA clothing manufacturer working with Patagonia, discovered that by adding two blue shop towels and using a design that produces a tighter-fitting mask, they could make a mask that can block up to 95% of the particles while standard cotton masks only block 20% to 60% of the particles.
Read MoreJohn Vincent, founder of Leon restaurants, partnered with international hospitality provider Absolute Taste to sell pre-packaged meals and ambient sauces to the public through delivery to the door and Leon’s chain of restaurants. Other restaurants and caterers are being invited to join the scheme.
Read MoreAmazon and SXSW Festival team up to launch a 10-day streaming event to bring a collection of movies from this year’s line-up, free to everyone in the U.S.
Read MoreThese Community Mobility Reports provide insights into what has changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID, thanks to anonymised data from products such as Google Maps. The reports chart movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, workplaces and more.
Read MoreGoogle helps keeping parents and children happy and healthy during lockdown with a new virtual tool. AR Animals enables smartphone users to bring select animals right into their home for a virtual safari.
Read MoreDeciem and Kiehl’s are among the businesses gearing up to launch one-on-one digital consultations, to keep employees employed, and help customers find the right products.
Read MoreDelhaize and Colruyt are joining forces in order to supply hospital staff with grocery deliveries, which will be free of charge. Both are inviting competitors to join the initiative.
Read MoreBoth airlines are reaching out to those staff who have not been working due to planes having been grounded following the COVID outbreak to consider helping at the new hospitals being built across the country.
Read MoreSix walk-in kiosks for mass collection of samples for COVID testing, seen first in South Korea, have been built in Kerala's Ernakulam district, at four hospitals. The kiosks are mobile cubicles with a sealed glass front and extended gloves attached in the front through which a medical worker can collect samples.
Read MoreAs the total raised by the Food for London Now initiative appeal achieved £850,000, the stadium’s underground “pitch pocket” was transformed into a production line with dozens of volunteers wearing masks and latex gloves to produce individual food parcels to be delivered to the doorsteps of poor, elderly and vulnerable residents of Haringey.
Read MoreFrom April 15, victims will be able to go to the Someplace Safe website and find a chat now button that will connect them directly to a domestic violence specialist. This will help women who are monitored, stalked, or never left alone calling from home to reach for help by texting.
Read MoreToys’R’Us Canada offers Stay-at-Home Play Packs, exclusive online resources with YouTube content, and the Wash Your Hands Challenge - a dance-along and scrub-along song on TikTok, to help keeping kids and families stay active and entertained during lockdown.
Read MoreThe award-winning distillery known for its whiskey and gin recently delivered over 100 gallons of its free hand sanitizer to Chicago Police and O’Hare Airport’s air traffic controllers, produced in only one week.
Read MoreFour graduate students remotely operated "newme" robots accepting graduation certificates on behalf of the graduating cohort. The newme robots, developed by ANA Holdings, had a display screen showing the faces of the students while the robots were dressed in graduation gowns.
Read MoreThe new course is designed to keep people company while stuck at home and use the time to create a healthy new habit of mindfulness, which has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety while boosting the immune system.
Read MoreKids everywhere can instantly stream the collection of stories on Audible, including titles across six different languages, to stay entertained and educated during lockdown.
Read MoreConstant Aviation is working around the clock to treat business and private aircraft with MicroShield 360, an FDA-approved antimicrobial shield that kills 99.99 percent of bacteria.
Read MoreUber is pledging to deliver free meals to first responders and healthcare workers on the front line of COVID across the U.S. and Canada. The meals will be delivered to medical workers and first responders in coordination with local, state and provincial governments.
Read MoreSummersalt opened up a free text message hotline, a ‘Joycast’, that will allow people to reach out if they need something to lift their mood during isolation. Someone from Summersalt’s ‘customer happiness’ team will answer by sending over a 10-minute meditation video, self-care ideas, or a puppy GIF.
Read MoreRosebud, an AI face generator, wants people to upload their profile pictures to automatically fit a mask to them. The initiative was developed to support the #Masks4All movement.
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