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 online platform connects companies in need of support with other businesses who lost projects and/or clients interested to share their employees’ costs and skills with another company, temporarily. This reduces layoffs and helps companies in need of support.
Read MoreTesla is using parts from its Model 3 cars to build the ventilators.. Model 3 parts used include a mixing chamber, vehicle controllers and several components of its Model 3 infotainment system, including the touchscreen and infotainment computer.
Read MoreBecause of hand sanitiser used multiple times a day, hands might be looking less than healthy at the moment. Hand masks that work like face masks, can hydrate hands, ridding them of dryness, and can even remove wrinkles and repair damaged skin.
Read MoreThe website Space Out helps shoppers check how crowded malls are with colour codes according to current crowd levels, in hopes that people will make better decisions about where to go amid the COVID outbreak.
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Read MoreMiyoko is repurposing its truck to provide 1,500 to 2,000 vegan grilled cheese sandwiches per week to frontline workers, starting with three hospitals in Northern California’s Sonoma County and several food banks, including St. Vincent’s in Marin County.
Read MoreAfter the Paris fashion week was cancelled, Shiatzy Chen still found a way to present its autumn/winter 2020 collection inviting editors and buyers to intimate one-on-one meetings with founder Wang Chen Tsai-hsia in Paris.
Read MoreThe app system accurately measures patterns and volume of breath using a wearable sensor, a dedicated smartphone application and a cloud infrastructure to deliver information and alerts to the medical team in real time. The app features a unique algorithm for early detection of respiratory aggravation.
Read MoreA group of Spanish innovators uses car windscreen-wiper motors to turn a manual resuscitation bag into an automated breathing aid. The machine can be made in four hours by an untrained person using simple materials such as wood, acrylic or aluminium.
Read MoreEnigma's team developed SafeTrace to facilitate privacy-preserving contact tracing. The app lets users share sensitive location and health data with other users and officials, without compromising the privacy of that personal data.
Read MoreThis office noise generator helps people focus while working from home. They can choose the number of colleagues they want to hear from, then enjoy background noise from a typical office life.
Read MoreThe 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.
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