Despite D-Rev colleagues’ advice to not razz Bill Gates in my TEDxStanford talk Saturday, I started with his Annual Letter for the Gates Foundation from January.  He uses the word “innovation” a lot − 23 times if you include innovate, innovator, and innovative.  He says innovation is key to changing the world.  I agree with [...]

April is World Autism Awareness Month.  On April 2nd, Niagara Falls, Christ the Redeemer in Brazil, and The Great Buddha in Japan were among over 4,000 recognizable international landmarks to be lit blue in support of Autism Speaks and the UN’s World Autism Awareness Day. Researchers estimate that 70 million people worldwide land on the [...]

We are happy to announce that we have signed an unprecedented licensing agreement with Chennai, India-based Phoenix Medical Systems Private Ltd. for the manufacturing and distribution of Brilliance! This deal marks the first time that an American nonprofit will receive licensing fees and royalties for its technology from an Indian for-profit company in the healthcare [...]

We’re excited that Brilliance, our low-cost phototherapy device for treating newborn jaundice, will be featured in Global Giving’s Open Challenge for the next 3.5 weeks!  If we raise $4,000 from 50 unique donors by December 22, Brilliance and other D-Rev projects will become a permanent part of Global Giving’s listings. Here are 11 things you can [...]

When the D-Rev team brainstormed names for our low-cost phototherapy device last year, “Blue Star” seemed like a fitting tribute to a device that uses bright blue LEDs to cure babies with jaundice – and our analogical finesse. Ten months later, while conversing with our Indian production and distribution partner for “Blue Star,” their CEO [...]