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Volunteers create platform to provide meals to people in need
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-04 18:32
A team of volunteers created OpenMeal, a platform that supports two vulnerable communities: restaurants struggling to keep their businesses open and families struggling to get food. The platform was developed during the Covid-19 pandemic, when the team of ...
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Youth Group creates public hands-free handwashing system
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-26 16:12
Members of the CII-Young Indians from Chennai worked together with two other association to launch the Sugadharam project, to provide the Chennai population with safe stations where people can sanitize their hands. The idea came as a result of the ...
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Students develop game to raise awareness about social distancing measures
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-04 11:20
Members of a game development university students’ club, called “GameDev Técnico”, from Instituto Superior Técnico, designed a new computer game to raise awareness about the importance of good social distancing practices during the Covid-19 pandemic. The ...
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Families lifted in cranes to see their loved ones in nursing homes
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-29 12:24
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, nursing homes all over the world had to forbid visitations from the resident’s loved ones, causing a sense of loneliness and isolation. At the same time, many business also had to be shut down during the pandemic, due to the ...
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Website offers free tools to prevent burnout of people working from home during the pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-12-16 14:19
Due to the Covid-19, many people all around the world had to adjust to a new reality of working from home. Working Den was created to help remote workers create a healthier, motivating and sustainable work environment. The website offers a range of free ...
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Researchers create drones to disinfect public spaces
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-08 20:16
A team of researchers from the Health Innovation via Engineering lab, at NUI Galway, have created an autonomous drone that uses ultraviolet light to strerilize surfaces. It is called the UVCDrone and was developed after the first surge of COVID-19 in ...
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Engineer developed ventilator powered by Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-04 10:53
During the Covid-19 pandemic, many countries around the world were experiencing a lack of ventilators necessary to treat patients. Aware of this situation, Marco Mascorro decided to use his engineering expertise and build a simple, low-cost, Pandemic ...
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NASA develops vibrating necklace to help people avoid touching their faces
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-02 18:32
A small team of three, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, has developed a pendant designed to help people avoid touching their face. This invention was created amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, following the World Health Organization’s recommendation that people ...
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Computing power devoted to finding treatments for Covid-19
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-30 11:47
Folding@home is a project that borrows your PC’s unused computing power to research treatments for the coronavirus. The system in place thanks to Folding@home has more computing power than the top 100 supercomputers combined. It is capable of calculating ...
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Video-calling robots to keep elderly connected during Covid-19
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-17 11:02
The Belgian robotic firm, ZoraBots, is lending robots for free to elderly care homes to help residents stay connected despite the ban on visits imposed to fight the spread of Coronavirus. The robot is a 1.2-metre-tall butler-style machine that can ...
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