Touch Bionics said its "i-limb ultra revolution" product could be controlled by a new "biosim" app.
"It's difficult to reach into everyone's medicine cabinet to determine that that product has been controlled and returned or disposed of by the consumer, " he says.
Two other sections of S.1712 create worrisome loopholes: Section 204 allows the re-export of any product if the controlled U.S. content amounts to 25% or less of the value (not the strategic significance) of the product.
Production costs are controlled, staff is hired and every product that can be extended is extended.
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The device is similar to an Israeli product already on the market which is controlled by a computer.
In the Exeter case, Kwiatkowski has been charged with obtaining controlled substances by fraud and tampering with a consumer product, namely a hospital syringe, according to an affidavit filed in federal court.
And electronics makers are going to great lengths with smoke and mirrors to hopefully distract audiences from noticing the unknowns -- like how a product actually works when not under carefully controlled conditions.
Yandex, the Russian search giant, has just launched its first product for the US market: a voice-controlled social search app called Wonder.
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The buying decision and access to information about how to make that decision are now controlled by the customer, leaving sellers with control of just the product.
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The lean innovation process, the agile approach rather than the controlled approach, is oriented more towards involving users in the evolution of the product.
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