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Note 2 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2014
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Property Plant and Equipment Estimated Useful Lives [Table Text Block] |
Category |  | Useful Lives (years) |
Office Equipment |  | 2 | - | 5 |
Vehicles |  | 3 | - | 5 |
Leasehold Improvements |  |  | 2 |  |
Schedule of Product Warranty Liability [Table Text Block] |
|  | Years Ended |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
Beginning accrued warranty balance |  | $ | 1,312,918 |  |  | $ | 1,372,342 |
Reduction for labor payments and claims made under the warranty |  |  | (75,966 | ) |  |  | (79,134 | )
Accruals related to warranties issued during the period |  |  | 25,863 |  |  |  | 19,710 |
Adjustment to warranty liability for discontinued operations |  |  | (324,349 | ) |  |  | — |
Ending accrued warranty balance |  | $ | 938,466 |  |  | $ | 1,312,918 |
Schedule of Earnings Per Share, Basic and Diluted [Table Text Block] |
|  | Year Ended December 31, |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
Basic: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Numerator: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net loss |  | $ | (1,852,301 | ) |  | $ | (2,830,047 | )
Preferred deemed dividend and preferred stock dividend |  |  | (18,927 | ) |  |  | (1,028,609 | )
Less: Net loss allocated to participating securities |  |  | 6,005 |  |  |  | 12,503 |
|  | $ | (1,865,223 | ) |  | $ | (3,846,153 | )
Denominator: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Weighted-average shares outstanding |  |  | 204,471,018 |  |  |  | 69,477,915 |
Weighted-average unvested restricted shares outstanding |  |  | (656,121 | ) |  |  | (306,958 | )
Denominator for basic net loss per share |  |  | 203,814,897 |  |  |  | 69,170,957 |
Basic net loss per share attributable to common stockholders |  | $ | (0.01 | ) |  | $ | (0.06 | )
Schedule of Antidilutive Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings Per Share [Table Text Block] |
|  | December 31, 2014 |  |  | December 31, 2013 |
Stock options outstanding |  |  | 37,034,483 |  |  |  | 5,368,233 |
Unvested restricted stock |  |  | 7,186 |  |  |  | 1,890,952 |
Warrants to purchase common stock |  |  | 22,148,045 |  |  |  | 9,648,045 |
Preferred stock convertible into common stock |  |  | — |  |  |  | 68,353,582 |

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