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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.

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Stockholders' Equity and Convertible Preferred Stock (Details Narrative) (USD $) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands		1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended
	May 29, 2019	Jun. 06, 2019	Jun. 30, 2019	Jun. 30, 2018	Jun. 30, 2019	Jun. 30, 2018	Jun. 28, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018
Number of common stock issued			2,321,091		2,321,091			2,010,028
Stock-based compensation			$ 109	$ 98	$ 115	$ 286
Master Service Agreement [Member] \| Consultant [Member]
Stock-based compensation			$ 100
Master Service Agreement [Member] \| Warrant [Member] \| Consultant [Member]
Description of issued of warrants	The Company paid to Consultant three warrants, with each warrant immediately exercisable for 33,333 shares of common stock with a $0.01 strike price.
Master Service Agreement [Member] \| First Warrant [Member] \| Consultant [Member]
Number of common stock issued							33,333
Securities Purchase Agreement [Member]
Number of common stock issued	221,000
Purchase price (in dollars per share)	$ 2.60
Net proceeds from sale of shares and warrants	$ 787
Securities Purchase Agreement [Member] \| Warrant [Member]
Number of common stock issued	86,692
Purchase price (in dollars per warrant)	$ 2.5999
Exercise price (in dollars per share)	$ 0.0001
Amendment Securities Purchase Agreement [Member] \| Warrant [Member]
Number of share surrendered		115,269
Number of penny warrants issued		115,269