History
Stratos Product Development
Founded in 1987, Stratos is one of the leading full-service product design and development firms in the U.S. By employing a balanced combination of engineers, designers, scientists, marketers and business strategists under one roof, Stratos provides a complete range of product design and development solutions. With a 22-year history of solving complex problems for companies like Microsoft, Abbott Laboratories, Nike and Spacelabs Medical, our collaborative approach enables us to reduce time-to-market, anticipate problems and create solutions that compel the end-user to purchase.
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 SATA Based MAID System: Copan
- 2004 1st Electro-wetting Protein Array: Stratos Biosystems
- 2005 Cleavable Surface Chemistry: Stratos Biosystems
- 2006 Focusing BioChips for Affinity Mass Spectrometry: Stratos Biosystems
- 2007 Medical Design Excellence Award: Datascope Netguard
- 2008 Nucleic Acid Sequencing by Expansion: Stratos Genomics