A primer from Cortex Design. All medical devices marketed in the U.S. are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA classifies any new medical device as either Class I, Class II, or Class III, depending on the device’s risk, invasiveness, and a number of other factors. If you want to market a…
Awesome products deserve to be appreciated, so as an exercise we put together a quick list of some of our favourite product designs — both past and present — to try to get at what makes a product great. It’s something we think about a lot at Cortex: why do some products fail to resonate,…
Any business leader (along with the venture capitalist who invests in them) knows that there’s no defined skill-set to success — no formula. That said, over the course of my career, I’ve noticed shared habits of successful leaders designing incredibly innovative hardware solutions. Cortex spoke with some of those leaders, both on the entrepreneurial side…
Cortex Design uses 3D printing to rapidly prototype hardware ideas in a physical form. Our in-house Objet polyjet 3D printer allows us to quickly print parts that could cost hundreds or thousands of dollars with subtractive CNC prototyping methods. It’s exciting technology, and it’s easy to understand why startups and Fortune 500 companies alike think…
If the tech world was a baseball game, the rules would change every time a new player stepped onto the field, a seasoned pitcher unveiled a new pitch, or a spectator entered the stadium. That’s basically how we won $100,000 + $5.4 million in R&D for the XPRIZE we’d already been disqualified for. Here’s how…
In 2015 the Voltera V-One team became the first Canadian winner of the international James Dyson Award, a prestigious engineering design competition judged by the British inventor.
The Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE is a $10 million global competition to stimulate innovation and integration of precision diagnostic technologies, helping consumers make their own reliable health diagnoses anywhere, anytime. Later this year the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE will announce its winners. The VITALITI Health Monitoring System has been named a top-7 finalist in the prestigious $10M…
Spark — creator of the Spark Award — is first and foremost a community of designers and creative people, bound together by the idea that Design can make significant, positive changes in the world and help make it better. The way we promote this Good Design is through the annual organization of international design competitions,…
Cortex’s Client CloudDX is featured in the HuffPost Video series Now What hosted by Ryan Duffy! In this video (filmed at our head office!), Dr. Sonny Kohli (Chief Medical Officer of CloudDX), recounts a life-changing trip to Haiti that inspired him to take action. Along with a small bioengineering company, he set out on a…