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The Chkin.Me app enables users to check-in to a venue by scanning a QR code with their phone's camera. Each club, charity or church will be issued with a unique QR code, and data will be encrypted and stored using Microsoft's Azure platform.
Read MoreThe tour company Walks has launched “Tours from Home,” a calendar of virtual excursions within city tour locations, featuring expert guides or chefs. FTLO Travel, a Millennial group travel company, is holding 'Travel Trivia Tuesday Happy Hours', where participants can meet online and earn FTLO Travel credits.
Read MoreThe designer has launched this initiative as a complement to medical diagnostics, to help people be able to track the symptoms of COVID on a daily, even hourly basis.
Read MorePeople that want to share a message of love and support with a store, a company or an institution, can simply mark it and the 'Ik jou ook' collective will then walk past and offer them one of their posters.
Read MoreThe five-part series showcases all elements of the Gifu prefecture including the great outdoors, timeless tradition, local culture and good foods, with a new video being released each week.
Read MoreThe wedding package called 'Just Me & You, Let’s Say “I Do"' is available from June 1 to Aug. 31 and will help couples in planning small summer wedding celebrations, with up to 14 people invited. The price of the package starts at $750 plus tax and service fees, which includes a two-hour ceremony time with photography throughout the hotel’s gardens.
Read MoreThe trio just released a new music video for their single "X," which came out last week, featuring Colombian singer Karol G, shot with the help of directors via the video conferencing app Zoom.
Read MoreAs an example, Mark Tadros, who owns Aziz Farms, where he grows dates, decided to hound local politicians and school districts, formed partnerships with other growers and a Palm Springs restaurateur, and made up his lost business by pivoting to delivery boxes and school lunches.
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Read MoreAs 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.
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