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Stories about D-Rev

If Mother Teresa Hacked

She might’ve started a company like D-Rev, which is bringing low-cost prosthetic knees to the world. The company’s Vin Narayan reveals how the non-profit is re-imagining do-gooderism.

If Mother Teresa Hacked

A Cheap Prosthetic Knee For The Developing World, Designed From Patient Feedback

Want to make something that people want to use? It turns out, it’s helpful to ask them what they want. That’s why D-Rev’s new knee for people in the developing world is turning into such a big success. Here’s how they did it.

A Cheap Prosthetic Knee For The Developing World, Designed From Patient Feedback

Designing For More Than Just Looks: Inside Public Interest Design

How To Create Products For People Living On Less Than $4 Per Day

You probably haven’t heard of D-Rev, but its products–including a revolutionary new prosthetic knee–are making a huge splash in the rest of the world.

How To Create Products For People Living On Less Than $4 Per Day

Brilliance in India: New Deal Allows Bay Area Firm to Fight Jaundice

Impact

Could the military’s focus on climate readiness be the way to convince climate deniers?

Jeff Bezos, here’s how to give away $10 billion to stop climate change

This shape-shifting jacket automatically gets warmer as the temperature drops

Creativity

Amazon’s ‘Hunters’ brings Nazis, Al Pacino, and muddled morality to ’70s New York

Which celebrity has all the range? Twitter’s latest meme has some answers

How Jane Austen’s ‘Emma.’ got the rock-star treatment it never knew it needed

Co.Design

A tribute to Larry Tesler, the father of user-friendly design

How cities are making the obesity epidemic worse

See Bjarke Ingels Group’s first couch. It’s like a building you sit on

Work Life

A time management coach’s surprising advice for the overly organized

How on-the-job training became the new graduate degree

Why I encourage daydreaming at work and how to turn it into innovation