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.
This school asks children to wear big, colorful, DIY hats to help enforce social distancing. These hats are made of easy-to-find craft materials like construction paper and foam and decorated with colorful paint, feathers, stickers, and even balloons.
Read MoreThe airport is focusing on a three-step quarantine, providing disinfection, sterilisation and sanitisation process with close cooperation with the government and other related agencies, including the KCDC (Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention), as well as several airlines.
Read More#ShineOnTravel is a user-generated database, where users can share stories of travel companies who are doing good during COVID. Whether they have been offering a full refund quickly and easily, rebooking holidays for future dates with as little hassle as possible, or helping to safely return travelers home when lockdown began.
Read MoreFrom Wednesday May 6th, people will be able to enjoy WatchApp theatre #1: Emmi & Leo. How does it work? The audience is 'secretly' in the same WhatsApp group and can read along with all the messages Emmi & Leo send to each other. You read how they get to know each other bit by bit and can follow the text-based performance.
Read MoreHelsinki hosted a virtual gathering and concert to celebrate May Day in a virtual version of the city made by Zoan that anyone could access. 700,000 viewers tuned into the virtual concert, meaning that nearly 12% (!) of Finland's population tuned in.
Read MoreCine Colombia is showing different films on the walls of buildings in different neighbourhoods of Bogotá, so that people can watch the movies from their balconies. To do so, Cine Colombia repurposed its Ruta 90 CSR program with which they have carried out mobile screenings of cinema to the most vulnerable and remote populations in the country, since 2017.
Read MoreRobots started caring for COVID patients at hotels who are only mildly sick under a new plan to free up beds at hospitals overwhelmed with more severe cases. Pepper, a talking robot, greets new guests at the lobby, while Whiz, a cleaning robot, operates in areas where patients pick up meals and other daily necessities.
Read MoreThe game starts by giving you the context: you are a housemaid living with your two sons, an in-law, and your husband who is an alcoholic. The rules are the following: you fail when you run out of money or when your risk of COVID reaches 100%.
Read MoreThis Instagram account is an archive of thank you messages from the citizens of New York to support and encourage workers on the frontlines fighting COVID-19.
Read MoreEach of their remote team activities are funny experiences with the aim of maximizing employee happiness, engagement and retention. Most of their virtual events are 90 minute video calls conducted over a high capacity and secure conference call platform.
Read MoreThe wrestler and his wife decided to make masks to fight COVID with different designs of wrestlers to be able to pay the bills, promote lucha libre wrestling and help out.
Read MoreAlphabet's life sciences arm Verily rolled out a screening tool, ‘COVID-19 Pathfinder’, to provide patients with answers to COVID-related questions concerning symptoms and health risk factors.
Read MoreVirBELA helps other companies connect their workforces online and has decided to launch a virtual workspace set up to host immersive events, meetings, classes, and other gatherings, where workers can meet in a different way.
Read MoreIn May, at least three couples will say yes to each other on the cinema stage of the drive-in cinema in Düsseldorf, Germany, while their guests watch the wedding ceremony from their cars.
Read MoreFashion design students and teachers from Bolivia teamed up with volunteers and medical doctors to develop a three-layer facial mask based on an open-source design. The design was developed in approximately one month and is currently in production and distribution.
Read MoreKeep Your City Smiling is an initiative supporting local businesses by selling boxes full of their products (craft coffee, candles, snack...) in city-themed subscription or gift boxes. Cities include amongst others Seattle, SF, LA and Portland.
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Read MoreThe Brewer’s Association has teamed up with Bottleshare, a nonprofit dedicated to the craft beverage community to create a new fund to help support US breweries that have been impacted by declining sales due to COVID.
Read MoreRound21 collaborates with artists to create handcrafted ping pong racquets printed with their art. As part of the Brand x Better coalition, Round21 will be donating 10% of net proceeds of all products sold in April to the Public Art Fund to help artists affected by COVID.
Read MoreA young couple in Columbus, Ohio, came up with a unique way to clean and reuse critically needed N95 masks. This breakthrough system rolling out across the country provides some relief for health care workers struggling with a lack of personal protective equipment.
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