Now a related technology is on the verge of FDA approval for widespread use in blind patients.
Super efficient lights known as LEDs are in widespread use in car tail lights, cell phones, and TV screens around the world.
Fingerprint scanners are not for the mass market, says Avivah Litan, an analyst at Gartner, who does think that voice biometrics will be in widespread use in America within three years.
And even though most of these studies are small and none has led to regulatory approval for widespread use in the United States or Europe, Caplan says that he would use the cells.
They did not realise, for example, that once such enterprise software was in widespread use, business would have to be conducted in much the same way worldwide.
It added that allowing smoking on set could "signal a green light for much more widespread use of smoking in productions".
Researchers, led by Dr Richard Beasley, of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, warn the widespread use of computers in so many aspects of modern life may put many people at risk of developing DVT.
The FAA is supposed to allow widespread use of domestic drones in 2015.
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For some, the idea of this technology in widespread use suggests grim scenarios.
Meanwhile, Medicare has covered the CT scans since 2006, and the tests are in widespread use, even though their usefulness for patients is unclear.
Even the invention and widespread use of the telescope in the first decade of the 17th century did not radically change man's view of the heavens.
Herein lies the problem, the widespread use of bandwidth caps in Canada is partially the result of a market defined by vast geographies and a limited population base.
Other modules were designed to target files encrypted using a system known as Cryptofiler - an encryption standard that used to be in widespread use by intelligence agencies but is now less common.
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Samsung and Toshiba will focus on assuring a 400Mbps interface for the toggle DDR 2.0 specification, which provides a three-fold increase over toggle DDR 1.0, and a ten-fold increase over 40Mbps SDR NAND in widespread use today.
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But it is equally important to increase public expenditure: to revive demand in flagging economies, to manage the effects of climate change and bring in widespread use of green technologies, and importantly, to provide minimally acceptable standards of living for citizens of the developing world.
Even as fewer people seek vaccinations -- in part because they believe that they are safe without them -- there has been a widespread increase in the use of antibacterial soaps and sprays at home, and parents and patients demand antibiotics at every sign of infection.
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For its part, Intel is apparently well aware of the problem, and it has already fixed the vulnerability on some newer boards like the DQ45, but others still in widespread use (like the DQ35 pictured above) have seemingly been left hanging waiting for a fix of some sort.
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In 2007, the Justice Department's inspector general found widespread violations in the FBI's use of the letters, including demands without proper authorization and information obtained in non-emergency circumstances.
Metal-forming technologies have been in existence for thousands of years, but came into widespread use with the global industrialization that began to occur in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
For example, Australia, which is currently Varroa-free, boasts a thriving bee population in spite of widespread use of neonicotinoids.
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But they are critical to American competitiveness, technological innovation, and global trade because they facilitate manufacturing, speed delivery, and enable the widespread use of countless products and services in the market today.
But if further study confirms that very early treatment can cure HIV-infected newborns, it could spur widespread use of such an aggressive regimen in babies born with HIV, nearly all of them in low- and middle-income countries.
Because egg freezing requires the use of in vitro fertilization for future pregnancies, its widespread adoption would also likely increase the use of preimplantation sex selection and genetic diagnosis, practices which pose a range of ethical dilemmas.
But that research resulted in widespread scrutiny of electronic voting around the country, and Diebold machines were decertified for use in many states.
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It represented a wholesale rejection of a ballot overflowing with stars who posted astronomical numbers in an era known for its widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs.
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But no obvious health risks among operators or patients have been noted in the past couple of decades of widespread use.
Until recently another big deterrent to energy investment in South-East Asia was the widespread use of price controls and fuel subsidies.
More rules about bat performance resulted in more workarounds mainly the widespread use of non-aluminum, composite bats that got "springier" with more use after passing initial testing.
Since scarcely any electricity is generated in America by burning oil, the widespread use of such vehicles could greatly reduce our dependence on foreign sources of petroleum.
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