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EQUITY (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2013
Equity [Abstract] |
Disclosure of Share-based Compensation Arrangements by Share-based Payment Award [Table Text Block] | A summary of stock option activity for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 is as follows:
|  | Number of Options (in shares) |  | Weighted Average Exercise Price Per Share |  | Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life |  | Aggregate Intrinsic Value
Outstanding at December 31, 2012 |  | 1,311,397 |  |  | $ | 5.20 |  |  |  |  |
Granted |  | 192,485 |  |  | $ | 6.79 |  |  |  |  |
Exercised |  | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  |  |  |
Forfeited or expired |  | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  |  |  |
Outstanding at September 30, 2013 |  | 1,503,882 |  |  | $ | 5.41 |  |  | 4.0 years |  | $ | 1,632 |
Exercisable at September 30, 2013 |  | 1,107,159 |  |  | $ | 4.78 |  |  | 3.1 years |  | $ | 1,616 |
Schedule of Share-based Payment Award, Stock Options, Valuation Assumptions [Table Text Block] | The fair value of the options granted was estimated on the grant date using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the following weighted average assumptions:
Risk-free interest rate |  | 1.7 | %
Expected term of options |  | 6.7 years |
Expected annual volatility |  | 58 | %
Expected dividend yield |  | 0.5 | %
Schedule of Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Allocation of Recognized Period Costs [Table Text Block] | Stock-based compensation expense included in the Company’s Condensed Statements of Operations for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2012 and 2013 was as follows:
|  | Nine months ended September 30, |  | Three months ended September 30,
|  | 2012 |  | 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2013
Cost of sales |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 44 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 44 |
Research and development expenses, net of credits |  | 68 |  |  | 31 |  |  | 68 |  |  | 10 |
Selling, general and administrative expenses |  | 522 |  |  | 907 |  |  | 340 |  |  | 329 |
Total stock-based compensation expense |  | $ | 590 |  |  | $ | 982 |  |  | $ | 408 |  |  | $ | 383 |
Changes in outstanding warrants to purchase common stock [Table Text Block] | The Company previously issued warrants at exercise prices equal to or greater than market value of the Company’s common stock at the date of issuance. A summary of warrant activity follows:
|  | Number of Warrants (in shares) |  | Weighted Average Exercise Price Per Share |  | Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life
Outstanding at December 31, 2012 |  | 28,750 |  |  | $ | 3.68 |  |  |
Granted |  | — |  |  |  |  |
Exercised |  | (2,954 | ) |  | $ | 3.68 |  |  |
Forfeited or expired |  | (2,796 | ) |  | $ | 3.68 |  |  |
Outstanding at September 30, 2013 |  | 23,000 |  |  | $ | 3.68 |  |  | 2.2 years

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of components of a stock option or other award plan under which equity-based compensation is awarded to employees, typically comprised of the amount of unearned compensation (deferred compensation cost), compensation expense, and changes in the quantity and fair value of the shares (or other type of equity) granted, exercised, forfeited, and issued and outstanding pertaining to that plan. Disclosure may also include nature and general terms of such arrangements that existed during the period and potential effects of those arrangements on shareholders, effect of compensation cost arising from equity-based payment arrangements on the income statement, method of estimating the fair value of the goods or services received, or the fair value of the equity instruments granted, during the period, cash flow effects resulting from equity-based payment arrangements and, for registrants that accelerate vesting of out of the money share options, reasons for the decision to accelerate. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6415400&loc=d3e5047-113901 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6415400&loc=d3e5070-113901 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS) -Number 123R -Paragraph 64, 65, A240 -LegacyDoc This reference is SUPERSEDED by the Accounting Standards Codification effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. This reference is included to help users transition from the previous accounting hierarchy and will be removed from future versions of this taxonomy. + Details
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