Stratos Innovations

Stratos has an enviable history of product development and design firsts, as a contractor to the world's leading corporations and VCs across a broad array of disciplines.

1987 Stratos Founded
1988 1st In-flight Video Entertainment: British Airlines 1st Class
1989 Lowest Cost Electrostatic Printer: Rastergraphics
1990 1st Automated Gas Meter Reader: Itron
1991 1st Portable Computer Input Device: Microsoft BallPoint
1992 1st PC Audio System: Microsoft Window Sound System
1993 1st Laptop Touchpad: Apple Computer
1994 1st In-Flight Passenger Phone: ATT Wireless/McCaw
1995 Top of Line Digital Multimeter: Fluke 70 Series
1996 Top of Line Portable Laptop: Apple 3400
1997 1st Wearable Thin-Client Computer: Stratos/Inroad
1998 Stratos Incubation Fund Created
1998 1st Automated Tagging and Marking of Live Fish: NMT
1998 National Grand Prize Engineering Award: Design News
1999 1st Imaging Flow Cytometer: Stratos/Amnis
1999 1st Non-Invasive Ultrasonic Therapy: Stratos/Therus
2000 Game Controller: Microsoft Xbox
2000 1st Multiple Medical Imaging Dry Printer: Codonics
2001 1st Low Cost Internet Data Collection Appliance: Sportbrain
2001 1st Optical Orthodontics Modeling of Teeth: Orametrix
2002 1st Commercial Microfluidic Station: Stratos/Micronics
2003 1st Mass Video Storage Based IDE Drives: Copan
2004 1st Electro-wetting Protein Array: Stratos/XMS