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How we won an XPRIZE when they said we’d already lost
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…
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Hardware Startups: Design for Manufacturing Summit
Heads up hardware startups; I am a panelist at two upcoming Design for Manufacturing Summits in Brooklyn NY Oct 6 2016 and Toronto Nov 3 2016.
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Human-Centered Design Course Completed by Cortex Team
Design Kit: The Course for Human-Centred Design is a seven-week curriculum that introduces you to the concepts of human-centered design and how this approach can be used to create innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions for social change. Working in teams of 2-6 people, we learned this design process by applying it to one of three…
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Accolades Received by Cortex Client, Cloud DX
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…
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James Dyson Award Goes to Voltera V-One
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.
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BUBLCAM Awarded 2015 Spark Award
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,…
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HuffPost Feature! Cortex Client CloudDX
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…
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What it takes to become ISO-13485 design compliant
“It creates a discipline and an internal corporate culture that can help you grow. -Robert Kaul Medical products are entering the consumer space at a growing rate, providing safer and more effective health outcomes for the public. For prospective device manufacturers, it’s important to understand the impact that quality certifications like ISO-13485 have on the…
