VITALITI Tricorder wins Epic Innovator Prize at XPRIZE Awards
When AgeWell Toronto invited Cortex President Dylan Horvath to present a workshop to their network of researchers and entrepreneurs, our goal was to relate the vital importance of using ethnography to de-risk the product design process. Many startups (especially those under time pressure and budget limitations) choose to dive straight into development, assuming the product…
Outsourced Manufacturing “Welcome to the Design to Product Podcast! In this interview episode, we talked to Dylan Horvath about saving cost and time with outsourced manufacturing. Dylan Horvath is the founder and president of Cortex Design, a product design + manufacturing firm. Dylan talked about common mistakes of product builders and innovators that drive up timelines and…
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.
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…
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…
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…