A Bible on a screen was the beginning. Logos built a business in the connections between books, then learned how expensive it could be to wander beyond them.

The Pure Blue Tech founder has spent more than a decade pursuing a stubborn idea: a membrane should defend itself. Now his ultrasonic reverse-osmosis technology is headed into the XPRIZE Water Scarcity semifinals.
Reverse-osmosis plants spend their lives fighting what sticks to a membrane. This 13-person Washington manufacturer wants to make the filter defend itself - without making operators rebuild the plant around it.