Product Development
Crafting a Comprehensive PRD: 5 Must-Have Elements
In the ever-evolving landscape of IoT products, a well-defined Product Requirements Document (PRD) is crucial to the development process. Whether you’re a product manager, engineer or…
Is Matter Stifling Smart Home Innovation?
With all due respect to the parties that are working hard to develop it, the Matter standard is struggling. Sure, it’s a new protocol and it…
Breaking Through Stigma in Senior Tech
For all its diversity, the huge Boomer generation usually has one experience in common: the challenge of helping aging parents and loved ones stay healthy and…
Year Zero: Moving Forward With Matter
This month’s launch event for the Matter interoperability standard was an undeniable high point in the nearly 50-year history of the smart home. Through the decades,…
Getting a Handle on OTC Hearing Aids
If you haven’t heard that over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids finally hit the market last month, you might be one of the 37 million Americans with hearing…
What Are Your Plans For Proptech?
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…
VR and the Return of Hardware
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…
Serving the Audio Prosumer
An old cliche tells us that a rising tide lifts all boats. The home audio industry could certainly use the lift. Over the past two decades,…
Will It Finally Matter?
It’s been nearly three years since the heavyweights of the connected world agreed to join forces on an interoperability standard for smart devices. What began as…
How Smart Does Your Smart Product Need to Be?
As is true of people, some smart devices are smarter than others. And as is true with people, greater “smarts” in devices usually cost more time…