Cortex Design has won six International Design Awards (IDA), including three gold awards and three silver awards in the product design category. Cortex is pleased to announce that Lumatone, UVC Buddy and the Fusion Vision System have won big accolades in the 15th annual International Design Awards (IDA). This represents major recognition of…
Cloud DXVITALITI Sometimes a client arrives with challenging work. Others arrive with a moonshot. Overview Vitaliti The future has arrived. VITALITI is a “doctor in a box” – a wearable medical device paired with a diagnostic basestation that can diagnose 19 chronic medical conditions, monitor all 5 human vital signs, and stream that data to…
Lumatone A new tool for pure human expression. Some projects just need to be done because they’re cool. There are some projects that have compelled us for years — projects that we work on whenever we can find the time or the money, for no other reason than that they capture our imagination because they…
Longan Vision Augmented reality for firefighters to see the unseen. Firefighting for the future. Startup Longan Vision developed a functional prototype for the Fusion Vision System (FVS), an augmented reality visor to let firefighters see the unseen. Through thermal imaging, environmental analysis, and remote image sharing with command vehicles, the FVS had the potential to…
Raytheon – C-FAST Rapid Covid-19 Diagnostic Working with a world-class multidisciplinary team to deliver low-cost, lab-grade COVID-19 testing at home. The COVID-19 pandemic has raised a global need for tests that are fast, accurate and accessible. High-complexity lab-based PCR tests are accurate, but getting them to a centralized lab creates delays. Low-cost POC antigen tests…
Recognition our work has won for our clients About Us Human-centred design manifests itself in every element of what we do. As an award-winning ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016 design firm established in 1999, Cortex develops products that advance the human experience. Our clients engage us when they need a flexible, responsive team to augment…
Neursantys NEURVESTA Pioneering the discovery and delivery of bioelectronic treatments using non-invasive devices to target neuromotor conditions that have limited treatment options. NEURVESTA is an innovative bioelectronics platform designed to address and potentially treat various neuromotor conditions.* NEURVESTA targets age-related balance decline with its advanced technology. Utilizing very low-level, non-invasive electrical stimulation of the vestibular…
Cortex Design receives the Autodesk Excellence Award for our rapid COVID-19 diagnostic, developed for Raytheon in collaboration with a team of world-class companies. COVID-19 testing is a critical tool for the global community to fight the spread of the virus. Testing has also faced a host of persistent challenges: lab-based PCR tests are accurate, but…
A Guide for Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and C-Suite Executives. Let’s play out a scenario that might be familiar to you: your business has tasked you with building a product you’ve never done before. In fact, your company has never done anything like this before. You need to tell your boss or your stakeholders how…
The Association of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario (ACIDO) has just announced their annual Rocket Competition winners — including Cortex’s sponsored award! For the past 19 years, the ACIDO Rocket Competition has recognized the best work from Ontario’s graduating class of industrial designers. In addition to helping judge the competition, Cortex provides a special award…
Shout it from the rooftops: Cortex Client Voltera has just ranked #24th overall on Canadian Business’s Startup 50 list for 2018. Voltera makes the V-1 PCB Printer, which is a transformational rapid prototyping platform that allows product developers to quickly produce printed-circuit-board (PCB) prototypes in-house.
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…
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,…