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.
Bobo Choses wants to help keeping kids happy, having fun and exploring their creativity during quarantine. They are asking their community to send pictures and share videos of their best #stayathome plans via Instagram to inspire other families around the globe.
Read MoreWeEatTogether has been launched by a group of restaurants who want to help small restaurants like themselves by selling vouchers, pieces of merchandise, or any other special offer, and asking people to redeem these when they open their doors again.
Read MoreIn partnership with Futur/io, Wirecard is launching the 'Innovation for Now' platform where merchants can find assistance packages from IT companies like SAP and Wirecard.The aim of the initiative is to bundle the offerings of all major tech companies in Germany and make them more easily accessible to merchants affected by COVID
Read MoreThe event tents company leveraged its strengths in custom fabrication and large-format printing to produce iterations of existing products, including pop-up mobile infirmaries and drive-through tents for Covid-19 screening.
Read MoreMasuno is a free and collaborative platform that curates the most extensive knowledge about COVID for Colombia and the Latin American region. It fights fake news by centralising all relevant information in one place, i.e. only actionable information that can help people make better choices and change behaviour.
Read More#milgracias is a non-profit initiative, promoted by the creative agency Idearideas with the aim to expose the small helpful actions that other people do for us and to give people the opportunity to be grateful in the way they want and to whom they want during these times of crisis.
Read MoreThe new Facebook app allows couples to create a digital scrapbook to help them cope better with social distancing and lockdowns.
Read MoreThe website classifies as 'Heroes' the companies and high profile people who have made positive changes and actions to support employees and society during COVID, and as 'Zeroes' those whose actions may have had a negative impact.
Read MoreThe company created wearable devices with passive GPS location tracking to enhance workplace safety for those who have to be co-located at a physical workplace while social distancing and isolation measures are in place.
Read MoreThrough this free app parents have access to both English and Spanish eBooks that give them the opportunity to read to their children. Besides, every book that is on the app is attached to an activity that helps extend the learning that comes with each book.
Read MoreBoth companies took the initiative, in view of the increased demand for raw materials needed for the prevention of COVID, to put aside the commercial production of beverages and to produce alcohol available to health centers and municipalities in charge of distribution.
Read MoreThe contactless technology can monitor the temperature, heart and respiratory rate of any passenger using an airport touchpoint to detect any potential COVID symptoms.
Read MoreThis bakery invented a new type of pink bread, to reuse the massive amounts of dragon fruit that have been going unsold in Vietnam, as the country shut down much of its trade with China due to the coronavirus.
Read MoreHilton partnered with American Express to donate one million hotel rooms across the United States from next week until the end of May, to give doctors, nurses, EMTs, paramedics and other frontline medical staff a place to sleep, recharge or isolate.
Read MoreThe vending machines will be placed in buildings of at least 100 apartments and will stock around 70 Vkusvill products to better serve shoppers during the COVID lockdown in Moscow and St Petersburg.
Read MoreRenault-Sofasa has launched the campaign #SomosMásFuertes to motivate companies, unions and individuals to come together to generate a great movement to take care of people who keep the services of the country active to overcome the current crisis. Renault Sofasa has also launched other initiatives, like manufacturing ventilators or the campaign 'El campo viene a mí'.
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Read MoreThe Canadian beer company is rewarding hosts of its virtual meetings with a $25 gift card intended for use at their favourite local bar once restrictions put in place due to COVID-19 are lifted.
Read MoreTo help combat social isolation and depression among older adults during the COVID pandemic, the Association on Aging in partnership with robotic pet manufacturer Ageless Innovation, is distributing up to 1,100 robotic Joy for All Companion Pets.
Read MoreCreated by three friends, ‘Your Local Delivered’ is a free-to-use online community to connect local businesses (pubs, groceries, butchers, etc.) with people in lockdown at home in the UK.
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