Blue Storm Media, a San Francisco-based company founded in 2016, is developing a digital badge device to help encourage social distancing. For wearers of the badge, the device can display a color or symbol corresponding to their health state and give them alerts when other badge wearers are nearby. 

Additionally, this week, Fully Promoted, a major branding company based out of Palm Beach, launched new color-coded bracelets to assist professionals going back to work while social distancing. In the coming months, it will be interesting to monitor how other companies attempt to capitalize on a growing number of people venturing outside while attempting to develop more reliable ways for efficient and effective social distancing. For updates on these social distancing efforts and other technologies related to the COVID-19 pandemic, subscribe to the interactive visual Pandemics Patent Forecast® offered by Magic Number®.