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What Does It Really Take To Get a Patent?

Ended soon Intellectual property (IP) can be a byproduct of successful innovation, however IP is not always easy to understand. There are various types of intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. These rights represent different types of protection for a company’s IP. If the different types of protection are not understood,…

What Are Your Plans For Proptech?

Ended soon Lately we at bluesalve have been paying close attention to the red-hot market for proptech. Most of the buzz has focused on how these technologies are making it easy to buy, sell, share and manage physical properties. While proptech may be disrupting real estate, banking, hospitality and construction, among other mature industries, we…

What Are the Trends From CES 2021? What’s New Part II

Ended soon Here at bluesalve partners, we all love CES. Our team has attended almost all of them. The show is always filled with an astounding number of new products, technologies and business opportunities. To help those who attended this year’s virtual show but may have missed some highlights, or professionals that did not attend…

What (I Hope) We Learned About the Future at CES 2023

Ended soon I have long maintained that one should never underestimate the power of a random encounter in a trade show aisle. Humans are wired for interaction, and it was great to be back at a live show with a big crowd to experience the universe of consumer technology. Following 2021’s interruption and last year’s…

Wearables vs. Med Devices: Visualizing a Third Way

Ended soon Hardware and software makers are naturally bullish on the future of consumer-facing wearables for health and wellness. So far, physicians and providers have remained circumspect. It’s been a dozen years since the first Fitbits helped launch the quantified self movement. What have we learned so far and what are the opportunities going forward?…

VR and the Return of Hardware

Ended soon Here at bluesalve we’ve been closely watching the evolution of virtual reality for the consumer market. When you’re looking at a genuinely revolutionary technology, you can’t help but get excited about the business possibilities. We believe VR will create the next major product category in consumer electronics. Is your company ready? Where Are…

Voice Control: Stuck in Place at 100 MPH?

Ended soon Written by: Mary Miller For many consumers, the concept of voice control at home has become synonymous with the name Alexa. Given the immense popularity of Amazon’s voice control platform and Echo devices, along with similar smart speakers from Google, Apple, and others, many companies that could be innovating in this field mistakenly…

Voice Assistants for Better or Worse?

Ended soon We are all busy giving all sorts of information to these platforms seemingly willingly in exchange for ease of purpose, or the answer to some question. That certainly is the position of these platforms, but as we see in the press (as I alluded to in my ISC West Re-Cap) and the minds…

Video or Bust: The New Physical Security

Ended soon Don’t look now, but traditional security integration as we know it today may be moving toward the exit. Business and technology trends are shifting the industry toward a software-and-services model that not all integrators are ready or willing to accept. High on the list of disruptors is the expanding importance of video and…

Unlocking the Power of IoT: Building Your Own Ecosystem on AWS—-Part One

Over the coming weeks I will be sending out articles discussing the current IoT landscape and discussing all of the considerations a company must make when deciding their path forward in the ever changing landscape of IoT ecosystems. Introduction to IoT and It’s Growing Significance The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the network of…