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 robot 'dog' is used in the Bishan-Ang Mo Kio park in Singapore to encourage social distancing. 'For your own safety, and those around you, please stand at least one meter apart. Thank you', sounds a recording from the robot as it walks by two people relaxing on a park bench.
Read MoreThe initiative, launched by a pediatric nurse at UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay in San Francisco and a local restaurant, helps paying struggling restaurants thanks to donations, while feeding hungry hospital workers. Frontline Foods is now expanding to NYC and tries to prioritize hospitals that are already triaging COVID patients and dealing with a high demand.
Read MoreThe main objective of this company is to minimize environmental impact and maximize social impact by taking on vernacular construction techniques and enhancing them with innovative technologies. Their newest project is bio clinics dedicated for COVID patient treatment.
Read MoreThe student team used their experience with biosensors to come up with the winning idea at the annual AI Health Hackathon hosted by Weill Cornell Medicine’s Clinical & Translational Science Center in New York City: a “smart” respiratory mask that prevents the spread of airborne diseases while monitoring the wearer’s vital signs.
Read MoreTo raise money for frontline workers, Earl of East, in collaboration with Uncommon Creative Studio, has launched this initiative, selling candles with different evocative scents that transport you to different places in the world, from Amsterdam to Japan.
Read MoreThis initiative, promoted mainly by the non-profit organisation ‘United Way’ allows people in Guatemala to help each other and to make donations to give away boxes of food and basic hygiene products, to support a family for 15 days.
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Read MoreFactorydesign's Isolate Kit transforms the middle seat into a screen to provide maximum personal space and separation between passengers. The lightweight table-top supports a screen in transparent thermoplastic which enables light to go through and maintain an airy cabin. The feature is supported by the armrests and securely belted in position.
Read MoreOn its website, Jiggy Puzzles features hand drawn and painted puzzles by working artists, each one being a 500 piece, one-of-a-kind puzzle. Proceeds go to the artist directly and to a COVID Artist Relief Fund. New auctions will be added weekly to support those artists hit severely by COVID.
Read MoreMatch Group, the brand’s parent company, announced this new feature coming up, one of the largest feature introductions for the brand. As abuse could be difficult to screen for on video, the team is said to be looking at building its own offensive image detection system.
Read MoreThe Blacklist show didn’t finish filming the finale before they halted production with lockdowns. But they found a creative solution: they asked actors to mail sound equipment so they could record their lines at home, then combine live-action footage and 'graphic novel' animation. They managed to complete an episode that will air on May 15.
Read MoreThe face shields were given to two 'unique cases' newborn babies as a short-term protection for the babies’ journey from hostpital to home, because their parents needed to take a taxi or public transport.
Read MoreThe measures taken for the so-called contactless flights include masks requirement and physical distancing with markers, frequent sanitation of passenger areas, self check-in and no-touch boarding, rapid testing and PPEs for operating crew, as well as extensive aircraft disinfection but also hospital-grade HEPA air filters in Airbus aircraft.
Read MoreTo help people at home missing the draught beer experience, The Five Points Brewering Co launched casks to sell, available on their online store, enabling consumers to turn their home into mini-pubs.
Read MoreWith barbers or hair salons being closed during lockdowns, different brands launched kits to help you get a decent haircut at home, like Wahl Professional with its Peanut Clipper and Trimmer set which includes the clipper/trimmer, the four comb attachments, oil, cleaning brush and a blade guard.
Read MoreThe North Sydney cafe is one of the coffee places in Sydney getting innovative by selling its remaining stock as groceries. They offer rice, flour, canned goods, coffee beans and alcohol to those who come to get a coffee or some food to go. When cafes will be allowed to re-open, many said that their grocery offerings will remain.
Read MoreSurrey Heartlands Health and Care Partnership, Surrey County Council and Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation team up to support the most vulnerable and sometimes socially isolated residents remain connected thanks to a platform where they can view, register and access online activities, like virtual coffee mornings, group chat sessions and tailored exercise classes.
Read MoreThe festival has decided to rehearse and record all seven of its planned productions and release them in audio form on Audible. The productions will feature the same performers that would have appeared on stage, including Dylan Baker, Kate Burton, Bobby Cannavale and Anna Chlumsky.
Read MoreTrade Me is working with local suppliers - often hit had by the pandemic - to sell fresh grocery boxes. These boxes include organic meat, produce and baked goods.
Read MoreLifesaver's campaign, Lifeline To The Frontline, has given 400 pre-charged power banks using 100 per cent renewable energy to NHS and frontline workers so they can stay connected whilst on shift during COVID.
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