“The battle for dominance in the voicemail-to-text field is heating up and PhoneTag (formerly known as SimulScribe) is coming out swinging. The idea behind the service is simple: voicemail that would typically go through your carrier gets rerouted through PhoneTag, which transcribes the message and pushes it out as either a text message or an e-mail…”
“No medicine can do its job if it’s not taken on the right schedule, yet only about half of people with chronic diseases adhere faithfully to their dosing regimen, according to the World Health Organization. Aimed at improving that statistic, GlowCaps are a line of electronic pill caps that use multiple means to ensure patients take their medicine when they should.”
“In a bid to capitalize on escalating demand for potable water, Boston-based Oasys Water Inc. has raised $10 million to pilot a technology it says could halve the cost of desalination and wastewater treatment.”
“Oasys, short for Osmotic Application Systems, is developing a proprietary desalination system that Oasys calls Engineered Osmosis (EO). Rob McGinnis, Oasys’ founder conceived EO with Dr. Menachem Elimelech while studying environmental engineering at Yale. Oasys claims EO does not require the high water pressure of the decades-old Reverse Osmosis (RO) technology.”
“EO is an osmosis system requiring 90 percent less fuel than the typical high-pressure Reverse Osmosis (RO) system employed by many desalination systems today, according to company statistics”
Aside from The Boston Globe Oasys so far has made headlines (so far):
“Oasys Water Inc. says it hopes to market a process that reduces by 90 percent the amount of energy needed to convert saltwater, compared with current methods that use reverse osmosis – the filtration of water through a membrane.”
