COVID CONNECT is focused on reducing feelings of loneliness and social isolation. It is available to people who do not have good social networks to address despair, fear, loneliness, and other mental health concerns.
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This Mobile PPS is an hermetic space where doctors can treat patients in a transparent protective space. It has constant overpressure, so the air flows only toward outside of the space, not letting the virus go inside. The clean air supply is guaranteed by a ventilator located outside or in an extra decontaminated space.
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The fully interactive applications of the 'TouchSource Contactless Suite' allow visitors to see and scan information from digital displays to mobile phones without touching the screen, to deliver information keeping pace with rapid messaging changes in any location at a safe distance, and also let visitors scan that information to their personal mobile device.
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The project aims at proving a list of businesses and restaurants in Seattle, hit severely by COVID, and linking to their gift cards site so that customers can easily support them during this time of need.
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Ktc gives access to a practical A3-format Unicorn Canvas + post-its, to help businesses redefine their model in times of COVID, against a €10 donation to UNICEF. Ktc will pay for the material and shipping costs of the home-kits, so that 100% of the donation goes to UNICEF.
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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.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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To 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.
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This 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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Factorydesign'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.
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On 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.
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Match 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.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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To 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.
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With 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.
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