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.
Doe Pro Gol helps charity campaigns reach their goals and promote the culture of donation by publicising and involving people through a game of solidarity with football teams. People can simply click on the campaign represented by their favourite team and donate. The team with the most donations is on top.
Read MoreKomak (Persian for 'Help') is an app created by a group of volunteers that enables 'healthy' people to help people 'in need' with their groceries or getting medicine from pharmacies during COVID, available anywhere in the world.
Read MoreCovid-19 Tech Support is a community of over 900 tech volunteers supporting COVID efforts worldwide. From IT requests for mutual aid groups to organising tech teams to build COVID projects, the volunteers want to remove technical obstacles and pressure for non-profits during this difficult time.
Read MoreThe device by Vega Innovations, a subsidiary of CodeGen travel software solution Group, is designed to treat COVID patients in critical care and it is currently being tested in Sri Lanka.
Read MoreStudents in the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at the South African Central University of Technology are producing 3D non-invasive ventilation masks, hand sanitisers and other much needed medical equipment to combat COVID.
Read MoreOpen Table, a popular restaurant reservation platform provides a new option to customers to reserve shopping time slots at selective grocery and retail stores in the US during COVID.
Read MoreThe website helps Portuguese people remain informed, safe, and healthy with answers to questions and tips from experts. Everything is written in Portuguese.
Read MoreKämp Hotel now also offers its room service as a delivery service in the Helsinki area, with The Room Service Menu, designed to honour the classic tastes of Kämp.
Read MoreEvery week, three new videos are posted on social media showcasing the flowers and blossoming in the park in South Holland. Usually the park welcomes 1.5 million visitors from around the world during its eight-week season between March and May. The team now tries to bring Keukenhof to the people at home via virtual tours.
Read MoreA video, posted on Facebook by Maam Yaa, shows an automatic hand-wash unit placed on the taxi of a Ghanaian driver, and a passenger is seen making use of the creative invention.
Read MoreBleach London's co-founder and creative director Alex Brownsell invited her celebrity friends, including Georgia May Jagger, Pixie Geldof, Nick Grimshaw, and Mesh Henry to come together for a virtual salon fête and receive step-by-step instructions for DIY dye hair jobs.
Read MoreVipu is a simple add-on to existing door handles, allowing people to open doors with their forearm, minimizing touching the handles with their palms and fingers. The handle add-om is made of Fortum Circo, a post-consumer plastic recyclate collected from consumer and commercial plastic waste.
Read MoreThe new website offers information regarding why recovered COVID patients should be able to donate plasma whilst outlining what conditions need to be met in order for an individual to be qualified to donate blood.
Read MoreStanford Medicine partners with Fitbit and other tech and academic partners on the effort, and is now looking for participants to help refine the diagnostic tool. The idea is that smartwatches or other wearable sensors may have the ability to detect symptoms that indicate a viral infection before a person notices it themselves, like higher skin temperature or elevated heart rate.
Read MoreThe Tower of David Museum has released 'The Holy City', an immersive VR experience that’s free of charge through April 24, the first day of Ramadan. In collaboration with two VR firms, the museum allows users to walk through the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during Easter’s Holy Fire ceremony or with the throngs at the Western Wall as they receive the ancient priestly blessing.
Read MoreThe mobile zone sanitation system, presented as an innovative idea by a team of 11 students from the UMSA electronics engineering degree during a hackathon, is a device designed for the sanitation of open and closed areas that could be contaminated by COVID and have a large influx of people, such as hospitals, markets and streets.
Read MoreShock’s free guide helps brands to think about their future, by giving them insights on a post-COVID world and the changes the current crisis will mean in terms consumption behaviour and in the roles of brands.
Read MoreAfrica University, just outside the eastern city of Mutare, has a Facebook feed full of pictures of the hand sanitiser the institution's department of public health and nursing is producing, while the Harare Institute of Technology has produced a prototype oxygen ventilator.
Read MoreThe website enables people to throw different forms of online parties depending on their budget and preferred theme. Festinha then helps invite all guests and acts as MC.
Read MoreMajor airlines have been discussing the possibility of conducting passenger temperature checks prior to boarding flights, testing new technology that would screen passengers for dangerous medical conditions like COVID.
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