The PDA cortex Golden Gadget Award recipients exemplify the creativity, innovation and achievement in technology, that bridge the divide between concept and reality. These are companies and individuals that transform the mundane into the compelling, and the ordinary into the stellar. They are the pioneers that know you won't get there doing the same old thing.

The criteria for selection of a Golden Gadget Award is a ground breaking innovation in hardware, one that bestows a compelling and obvious advantage to the mobile practitioner.

The following companies and/or individuals are recognized for their significant achievements and major contributions that have helped to shape the industry:

The Active Corporation of Castine Maine for the the ActiveECG, the worlds first pocket sized ECG machine.

MARGI Systems Inc., of Fremont, California for the Presenter-to-Go, the truly mobile PowerPoint presentation system.