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Bike2Box launched a modular bicycle parking box, which allows to transform a car parking slot into a locker accommodating 12 bicycles. It is designed to meet a growing demand in parking bicycles in post lockdown era, when people return to offices and seek for safe ways to commute. It’s quick, safe, uses existing spaces, does not require any mounting and can be rented for as long as needed.
Read MoreThe new wearable tag from Triax Technologies alerts workers when they are violating social distancing rules on job sites and provides contact tracing information if there is a chance that they have COVID-19.
Read MoreBobobox and Li Ka Shing Foundation in Collaboration with IDI Jawa Barat donated 100 sleeping pods for COVID-19 hospitals in Jakarta & West Java. The pods are intended for medical workers to take rest in between their long shifts.
Read MoreThe testing units are made with three walls of unused plexiglass recycled from Room's office phone booths, this makes it easy to clean and disinfect between patients. It can be assembled and installed on site in 30-minutes.
Read MoreArchitect Francesca Perani has designed a mini-flat which is just 25-square metres in size, that could be perfect for self-isolation. The space was designed for a couple living in a small Italian town, Albino, and has been added by transforming the couple’s porch, turning a storage space into a mini self-contained living area.
Read MoreUsing any cameras that Smartvid.io can connect to Vinnie, the company’s AI interface, it will be able to work as a virtual safety inspector and determine the distance between any two workers on construction jobsites.
Read MoreThe event tents company leveraged its strengths in custom fabrication and large-format printing to produce iterations of existing products, including pop-up mobile infirmaries and drive-through tents for Covid-19 screening.
Read MoreOpposite Office founder Benedikt Hartl wrote an open letter to the German minister of health, Jens Spahn, proposing the idea to temporarily convert the unopened, 220,000-square-metre airport, turning it into a ‘superhospital’ to treat COVID patients.
Read MoreWinsun Building Tech is 3D printing quarantine wards and has already donated 15 wards to the Xianning Central Hospital. One quarantine room can be printed in two hours and one printing machine can produce 15 rooms in a day.
Read MoreTo address the shortage of hospital rooms during COVID, Jupe Health is offering mobile shelters that can be produced at around 1/30th the cost of a standard hospital room and shipped anywhere using existing logistics infrastructure.
Read MoreThe architect and an international team of experts developed CURA (Connected Units for Respiratory Ailments), intensive-care pods specifically designed for COVID patients. The design is available as open-source online and the first units are currently under construction in Milan.
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