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.
For unemployed people in Vietnam, businessmen and donors have set up Rice ATMs that dispense free rice at several cities across Vietnam. In Hanoi, rice contained in a large water tank pours into residents' bags from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
Read MoreIn cooperation with Erasmus Medical Center (Rotterdam), Jeroen Bosch Hospital (‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands) and the Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS), Philips created an online portal that allows Dutch hospitals to easily share COVID patient information with one another.
Read MoreThe website shows a collection of 'bright spots', i.e. pockets of positivity, new projects, community initiatives, or technologies that have emerged from this crisis, and enables anyone to submit and share new Bright Spots thanks to a list of curated websites.
Read MoreThe founder of the website wants to study how the anxieties of the moment would translate into our dreams. Anyone that wants to tell their dream can fill an anonymous form and choose to share the dream publically or not, and read about other people's dreams.
Read MoreAmbev has started producing masks and hand sanitizers to help hospitals. In partnership with the Municipality of São Paulo, Ambev is also expanding the M'boi Mirim Hospital in São Paulo by 100 beds and has transformed bar owners in different regions of Brazil into beverage distribution points for Zé Delivery, to help them receive additional income.
Read MoreThe initiative aims at supporting workers on the frontlines by ordering a favourite dish on food delivery services and put the address of one of the hospital, fire station or nurse home in your city. People that participate are asked to share their Instagram account in their order so that workers can thank them directly.
Read MoreThe website pairs you with a world-class hair stylist or barber via video chat to get your hair through these hard times, thereby helping hair stylists making money during lockdown.
Read MoreMonadd helps UK residents financially affected by COVID receive payment reliefs by helping them conveniently begin conversations for payment reliefs with their service providers, for free.
Read MoreKeep Moving is giving individuals the opportunity to compete in the Düsseldorf METRO Marathon without physically running together. Each participant runs alone but tracks their movements and can then share it with others online.
Read MoreThe website created by two social workers shares information about all the ways people can help each other during COVID. Some of these suggestions include petitions, volunteering, donating to charities and other ways to keep busy and healthy.
Read MoreThe free Google Chrome extension Vemos enables you to watch movies with friends remotely, on the most popular streaming services (Netflix, Disney +, Prime video, Youtube), with a full video chat built-in.
Read MoreRelocrew believes that candidates who have been dismissed due to COVID-19 may be perfectly suitable for another company and tries to become a platform matching companies in need of people with those recently losing their job.
Read MoreAchtung! recreated their real office in a virtual reality (VR) environment to enable their colleagues to gather together in the office. Last Friday, the first joint after-work drink gathering was held with 70 employees taking part.
Read MoreTo celebrate Easter, the Düsseldorf drive-in cinema together with the local catholic church organised a drive-in Easter service with space for 500 cars.
Read MoreUntil April 30, Right Hub's consultants will accompany companies and their HR functions through an evaluation of the information prospectus for people with disabilities and the identification of the most suitable tools to comply with the obligations of the legislation in force.
Read MoreThe website raises money for restaurants so that they can keep their kitchens running and deliver meals to people who urgently require them. These people include healthcare workers, elderly and homeless people.
Read MoreThe Beat Bus project is a free bus service that aims to facilitate the transfer of health professionals to hospitals in Lima and Buenos Aires. The project is a cooperation with the local authorities to ensure that it complies with all the disinfection and sanitation protocols necessary to transport doctors, nurses and technical personnel safely.
Read MoreThe new kit made from a storage box from IKEA and a UV-C light, at a cost of around $55-$75, is designed to quickly give hospitals and other key locations such as nursing homes and grocery stores a solution to decontaminate masks so they can be used several times.
Read MoreWith clubs and bars closed due to COVID, the Portland strip club started offering a new service to keep its employees working: Boober Eats. For a $30 delivery fee, customers can order a burger and fries to their homes, where two dancers will show up with a driver/security guard. Equipped with masks, gloves, and hand sanitizers, but topless, the dancers deliver food to the customer’s doorstep.
Read MoreApple is allowing healthcare providers, hospitals, and other businesses to submit an application for their testing locations. Once a location is approved, it will appear right on Apple Maps.
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