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.
As lockdowns have made it impossible to visit new vegan restaurants and judge them on Yelp, Ginny Hogan has decided to recreate the experience by judging the world around himself and review the only places he is allowed to go right now: his bedroom, living room, grocery store or his friend’s apartment, visible only via Zoom.
Read MoreUsers of the website can simply open one of the online fashion stores listed, sign in and invite their friends to join their squad, then shop together. When adding items to their squad wishlist, their friends will be able to interact, give their advice by creating a poll or share their favorite looks, and create outfits.
Read MoreDevourin 'Spark In-room' provides contactless experience for both in room services and dining at hotel restaurants. A single QR code on your phone opens the doors to a variety of services including digital menu, digital ordering, payment, real-time feedback or spa appointments, playing the role of a virtual concierge.
Read MoreVirtual Mariachi aims at keeping the Mariachi beloved tradition alive and help you surprise your beloved ones. You can contact the page to ask the song you want, the message you want to send, for which date you need it and by which means do you want to receive it (mail or Whatsapp). Then they record it and send it to you!
Read MoreThe vending machines can already be found in Zurich Airport and Brussels' train station.. The vending machines feature face masks, hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes, items that will added to the brand's existing machines across Belgium, Austria, Germany, France and Switzerland.
Read MoreFish Tales has unveiled an innovative solution to help consumers respect social distance regulation: inner tubes on wheels. The special tables will be available to customers as soon as the bar will be allowed to reopen.
Read MoreMyant has designed a new antiviral and antibacterial mask knitted from copper and silver yarns. The startup's PPE series is comfortable and reusable, available in various styles depending on personal preference and range from Endura Mask to Flex Mask, among others.
Read MoreThe Clone Machine tool helps to create a stand-in for remote workers' video calls by helping people capture a video of themselves, so that a convincing double can be created in 30 seconds. With the tool, users can save the video and use it as a Zoom background the next time they need to escape.
Read MoreThe jacket called ‘Full Metal Jacket’ is designed out of seven miles of copper thread, well-known for its virus-killing properties. The copper releases electrically charged ions which makes it difficult for a microbe to breathe and could completely wipe out its DNA, preventing it from developing any further.
Read MoreThe objective of the COVID Donations Observatory is to consolidate and get to know the numbers of the donations made during COVID, to promote them and inspire even more donations.
Read MoreWhile couples are spending more time together at home, a recent survey, ‘Trojan Survey April 2020’, showed that only 19% of people are having more sex with their partner, while 37% are baking more instead. So just in time for #WorldBakingDay Trojan and 72andSunny New York have created a cookbook called ‘Rising Time’ with 69 pages of sensual baking recipes and surprisingly sexual bread photography.
Read MoreThe 'Deco Travel Collection', now in preorder, is made on-demand out of a waterproof, breathable, silk-blend fabric, currently available in a neutral light khaki. The jumpsuit is designed to be worn with or without clothes underneath, with elastic waist, wrist, and ankle bands to keep it comfortable.
Read MoreUnilever Russia's carrers fair was designed in the format of an online game, where users could visit 8-bit versions of company office buildings, learn job details and communicate with virtual representatives. Graduates were able to look for internships and vacancies at Unilever, as well as virtually meeting Unilever employees.
Read MoreChristophe Gernigon designed the PLEX'EAT concept of suspended, protective, XXL Plexiglas visors that let each person dine or have a drink in total safety during COVID.
Read MoreUnder the slogan: ‘If your home office is loud, make it count’, Wunderman Thompson transformed everyday decibels into discount coupons for Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700, by utilising a Noise-O-Meter algorithm engineered to interpret sound data from ambient noises.
Read MoreThe startup has launched ‘iMASQ’ (Intelligent Monitoring Analysis Services Quarantine), a bus that will have on-site doctors and nurses to provide medication stock, collection facility, remote consultation but also an inhouse quarantine berth with ventilator facilities. The bus aims to cover 3000 to 10,000 houses within a 3 km radius each day.
Read MoreRichard Wiseman designed ‘Can You Save the World?’, an online game that helps children understand the importance of social distancing in times of COVID. It also aims to show awareness about how positive social behavior taught in online games can impact people’s actions in real life.
Read MoreBio-designers Garrett Benisch and Elizabeth Bridges created a face mask out of bacterial cellulose called xylinum acetobacter. According to them, anyone can grow the bacteria with a few simple ingredients in the kitchen, using water, tea, sugar, and a small bacterial sample of xylinum acetobacter.
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Read MoreBBH Singapore has launched a ‘Sentosa Crossing’ campaign for Singapore's popular holiday island Sentosa. It is the country’s first branded virtual destination on the Nintendo Switch game Animal Crossing and allows visitors to enjoy the island from their homes during COVID.
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