Huron Technologies How Cortex Used Design to Turn Huron Technologies’ Fragmented Portfolio Into a Cohesive Product Family Huron Technologies How Cortex Used Design to Turn Huron Technologies’ Fragmented Portfolio Into a Cohesive Product Family Huron Technologies How Cortex Used Design to Turn Huron Technologies’ Fragmented Portfolio Into a Cohesive Product Family From Fragmented Portfolio to…
TheraB Medical: SnugLit™ Wearable Phototherapy System The Bonding Breakthrough: How Cortex Design steered TheraB Medical from a senior thesis to FDA 510(k) clearance and a successful acquisition in just 30 months. TheraB Medical: SnugLit™ Wearable Phototherapy System The Bonding Breakthrough: How Cortex Design steered TheraB Medical from a senior thesis to FDA 510(k) clearance and…
AceAge – Karie How design thinking led to a 10x valuation for a medical startup. The Challenge. AceAge CEO Spencer Waugh first came to Cortex with a simple prototype for what would become a revolutionary method for distributing medication in the home. Spencer had a great deal of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, and his…
Blue Orchid How empathy-led design helped a founder get back on his feet and create a new category of assistive devices. The Challenge. Blue Orchid CEO Sina Afshani was caring for an elderly loved one who needed assistance getting out of bed. When he went to go out and buy an assistive device to make…
DeloitteSmart Helmet Clip Digging deep to uncover a new world of wearables for an enterprise client. Overview Deloitte Safety in real-time. The Smart Helmet Clip is an industrial-grade wearable device that facilitates safer productivity in heavy industries. It has a modular sensor suite that enables situational awareness (including location, presence of dangerous gasses, and a…
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…
ConnectTech – SentryX Things don’t have to look cool. They have to be cool. Edge computing firm ConnectTech developed a new embedded system for Augmented Reality applications aboard aircraft. Their camera and sensor system to overlay rich data on cockpit displays had such large requirements for data storage that the device had to be physically removed after…
Sidekick – Fuse 2.0 How we helped an innovative consumer products company develop their next-generation IP. The next generation of athletic recovery. CEO Hin Lai, an athlete with his own share of injuries, founded Sidekick to develop innovative muscle recovery tools for professional and high-performance athletes — tools that had helped him in his own…
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…
FluidAI – Origin How our design and manufacturing experience helped the team at FluidAI bring their aspirational prototype to a market-ready solution. A device to monitor and better understand a patient’s post-operative wound recovery. FluidAI’s INLINE MONITOR is designed to be used with existing closed wound drainage systems to monitor the pH and electrical conductivity…
MacLean Engineering Entirely re-thought user interface design for the next generation of electric underground mining equipment. MacLean is the world’s largest, Canadian-based manufacturer of underground mining vehicles, with 50+ years of experience in helping mining companies around the globe realize safer, more productive operations. State-of-the-art machines need state-of-the-art interfaces. Environmental Challenges Miners have to navigate…
eye3 PD-ID The next generation solution for roadside drug and alcohol screening PI-ID is a handheld quantitative drug testing platform that delivers lab-quality accuracy in detecting trace amounts of drugs quickly and efficiently. Traditional oral fluid testing devices for roadside drug and alcohol screening have been plagued by a range of issues: they are slow,…
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…