Hacking firmwares, ROMs, and OS distributions is a long and noble tradition, and provide many wonderful proofs of concept.

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But one of GlycoFi's proofs of concept was a scientific paper showing its method could be used to create a copy of Amgen's Epogen.

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So, through our customer engagements team, we work with customers to identify use cases and proofs of concept, where we identify the challenges to help them start on the journey.

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Also, both of these successes are proofs-of-concept.

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Like other proofs-of-concept with Fujitsu's PalmSecure technology, you don't actually have to lay your hand on the sensor to make it work -- hovering above it will work just fine.

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