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 digital rooms enable doctor offices to reduce the spread of COVID in waiting rooms. Patients call the reception from their home, get a personal waiting number and a link via SMS to check the status online and can then enter the medical practice after being called, when their turn comes.
Read MoreThe app aims to protect essential workers on the frontlines - in food service, grocery, delivery, retail and facilities - with high-impact COVID training delivered via text message, and it’s completely free.
Read MoreFor WhatsApp messages that have already been forwarded five times, users will no longer be able to forward that message to more than one chat at a time. Recently, WhatsApp saw a significant increase in message forwarding which can contribute to the spread of misinformation.
Read MoreSonaviaTech's technology has the potential to dramatically reduce the transmission of disease caused by bacteria. The company is currently seeking to raise funds to scale up, commercialise and bring their life-saving technology to the market, which could help in the fight against COVID.
Read MoreThe website is a platform that connects people in Colombia with the closest shopkeepers from their homes. With a call or a message from WhatsApp people can order anything they want from their neighbourhood shops and receive it at their doorstep.
Read MoreVolare Sports launched the ‘CoronaRun Half Marathon’ that involved over two dozen runners running in isolation. They competed in a half marathon race in the Netherlands on April 4th with each athlete racing around his/her home area in compliance with government directives. The runners timed themselves and, via the GPS system, clocked their finishing times.
Read MoreFoster+partners shared a template for a general-purpose visor that can be cleaned and reused, composed of just three pieces, with the aim of facilitating quick mass production of the visors for healthcare professionals.
Read MoreFonterra is now manufacturing an additional 220,000 litres, on top of the 375,000 litres they have already made available to sanitiser manufacturers in recent weeks and are also looking at all viable options to increase ethanol production to help with the supply of sanitiser.
Read MoreZeSight helps companies to take proactive measures to keep their workforce safe from COVID, capturing real-time health status and working conditions of their teams and assessing the capacity and resilience of the workforce.
Read MoreMoscow’s city bikesharing service will start operating earlier this year (in mid-April) and will also be free of charge for delivery services and volunteers - who will be the only ones who can use the service.
Read MoreCGI influencer Knox Frost, an artistic rendering of a young man who has over a million followers on Instagram, partnered with the World Health Organization to spread awareness about COVID to youngsters.
Read MoreThe website by open-source community Precious Plastic gives access to free-to-download source files of face visors, hand free door openers and intensive care respirator masks produced using Precious Plastic injection machines.
Read MoreDocked Living is opening one of its 8-bedroom, 9.5 bath co-living properties to healthcare providers who need to quarantine themselves away from loved ones. The temporary housing will be provided for free and will include all offerings in Docked Living's normal co-living spaces.
Read MoreVoxel51 is tracking the impact of COVID on social behavior using a metric they call the Voxel51 Physical Distancing Index (PDI). With computer vision models and live video streams from some of the most visited streets in the world, the PDI captures the average amount of human activity and social distancing behaviors in major cities over time.
Read MoreBogota opened nearly 72 miles (117 kilometers) of new bike routes in March in hopes of reducing congestion and person-to-person contact on the perpetually crowded TransMilenio bus system.
Read MoreBloom Energy is collecting and refurbishing some of the thousands of ventilators that currently sit in storage because they have reached their end-of-service life, to send them back out to hospitals in dire need.
Read MoreThe application forecasts the impact of COVID on employee populations throughout the US, to help employers anticipate medical costs, absenteeism and potential needs to shift work operations due to the spread of COVID.
Read MoreHero is helping stores use digital tools to stay connected with their customers during lockdown. For example, the Hero platform offers video calling between store associates and customers from each others smartphones, as well as coordinating follow-up questions via texts.
Read MoreFamous Bolivian chefs Alejandra Peredo, Javier Libera, Ricardo Cortez, Markus Ruegg and Ramón Freixa are offering a shopping guide and a recipe book that includes how to cook three meals a week economically.
Read MoreThe web app includes reviews of health apps across a range of health conditions relevant to COVID, including reviews of COVID apps launched to date. ORCHA is also offering free professional accounts to all NHS staff for the next three months, which let healthcare professionals find and recommend health apps to patients via text or email.
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