IoT product development and cloud integration Ontario businesses can rely on means treating the device and the cloud as one product, designed together by a single accountable team. For most non-technical companies, the journey runs 12 to 18 months from idea to first production run, and a working proof of concept is realistic in 6 […]

A Bluetooth wearable prototype with sensor dashboard is a small battery-powered device that measures something on the body, such as motion, heart rate, skin temperature or muscle activity, and sends those readings over Bluetooth Low Energy to a phone, tablet or web app where your team can see the data live and act on it. […]

A wearable becomes a real product through two linked disciplines, and pcb design and firmware development for wearables is the pairing that turns a concept sketch into hardware you can charge, strap on and ship. The printed circuit board is the physical body: the board that holds the processor, the radio, the sensors, the battery […]

A patent search before building a product is the cheapest engineering decision you will ever make, because it costs a few hundred dollars and a week of calendar time to find out whether the thing you are about to spend six months and six figures building is already owned by someone else. Most non-technical founders […]

If nobody put in writing who owns IP in prototype development before the first line of code was written, the default legal answer is probably not the one you expect: in Canada, the person or company that actually creates a work is its first owner of copyright, and a patent belongs to the named inventor. […]

Most of the risk in hardware product development for first time founders sits in the first ninety days, long before a factory is involved: you either prove the thing works and can be built at a price people will pay, or you spend two years finding out it cannot. The path from idea to shippable […]

The first steps for an invention idea are not drawing it, patenting it, or pitching it. They are writing it down with a date, checking whether someone has already built it, and defining the smallest possible test that would prove the idea works. Those three moves cost almost nothing, take a week or two, and […]

The seven new product development process stages that move a product from a rough idea to a real launch are discovery, validation, concept and scoping, design and prototyping, engineering build, testing and compliance, then launch and iteration. Each stage ends with a decision, not a celebration: you either fund the next stage, change direction, or […]

The whole question of proof of concept vs prototype vs MVP comes down to what each stage is trying to prove: a proof of concept proves the hard technical part is possible, a prototype proves the idea makes sense to the people who will use it, and a minimum viable product proves someone will pay […]

The product feasibility study cost Canada businesses should budget for runs from roughly $8,000 for a focused two week software assessment to $75,000 or more for a deep-tech hardware program that includes bench testing. Most of the studies we scope at Prototype Toronto land between $15,000 and $35,000 and take four to eight weeks. That […]