In addition, because biomedical engineers often develop devices and technologies for " consumer " use, such as physical therapy devices ( which are also " medical " devices ), these may also be governed in some respects by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

In India, the Consumer Protection Act 1986 clearly differentiates a consumer as consuming a commodity or service either for his personal domestic use or to earn his livelihood.

Consumer advocacy groups such as Public Citizen or Food and Water Watch maintain that the safety of irradiated food is not proven, in particular long-term studies are still lacking, and strongly oppose the use of the technology.

Paint manufacturers began replacing white lead pigments with the less toxic substitute, titanium white ( titanium dioxide ), before lead was banned in paint for residential use in 1978 by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Consumer applications ( as in home use ) are considerably less demanding due to much smaller listening space and lower playback levels.

Consumer goods such as pharmaceuticals, perfume, fashion clothing can use either type of authentication method to prevent counterfeit goods from taking advantage of a popular brand's reputation ( damaging the brand owner's sales and reputation ).

Consumer electronics ( abbreviated CE ) are electronic equipment intended for everyday use, most often in entertainment, communications and office productivity.

Consumer can freely download software in smart phone or use web widget to check drug-drug interaction.

The Ethical Consumer Research Association once recommended that its readers do not buy Colgate because of its use of animal testing, though this is no longer the case.

Consumer electronics devices make use of flexible circuits in cameras, personal entertainment devices, calculators, or exercise monitors.

Consumer Reports graphs use a modified form of Harvey Balls for qualitative comparison.

Consumer Reports recommended that policyholders use the money instead to buy lower-deductible insurance.

As of Spring 2010, all new Olympus cameras announced at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show and Photo Marketing Association International Trade Show can use SD cards.

In the U. S., the passage of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in 1991 along with action by individual states reduced the use of junk faxes at that time.

Consumer behaviour is the study of individuals, groups, or organizations and the processes they use to select, secure, and dispose of products, services, experiences, or ideas to satisfy needs and the impacts that these processes have on the consumer and society.

The U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reports its receives about 10 reports per year where nightlights close to flammable materials were cited as responsible for fires ; they recommend the use of nightlight with bulbs cooler than the four or seven watt bulbs used in some products.

Some older systems such as those that use MK or old MEM Consumer Units that used fuses had one fuse per spur so for instance:

It was founded by William Allen, who allowed the use of his laboratory at No. 2 Plough Court for the Society's scientific experiments ; Alex Hearn, founder of Kind Consumer and Oxford Entrepreneurs, and the other two principal founders were Richard Phillips and William Haseldine Pepys, both Quakers from the Lombard Street area.

In June 2002, recognising the potential of Fairtrade as a successful tool to alleviate poverty, Mel founded New Consumer Magazine, the UK ’ s leading ethical lifestyle magazine, enabling consumers to use their purchasing power to change the world.

Australian Consumer Association ( CHOICE ) confronted their concern about the consumers growing interest from green consumption to food production, like, use of pesticides, organic production, and genetic modification etc.

Consumer grade microphones use screened copper wire with one central conductor in an unbalanced configuration.

* Consumer health informatics: use of electronic resources on medical topics by healthy individuals or patients ;

Consumer and many professional camcorders do not use PsF to record 24-frame / s video ; instead they either record it natively in progressive form or apply 2: 3 pulldown.

Consumer non-durable goods are purchased either for the immediate use or to keep it for very short span of time.

A prototype of the full computer was shown to the public for the first time at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in 1984.

Epyx first showed the Handy system at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) in January 1989.

Kazaa was introduced by the Dutch company Consumer Empowerment in March 2001, near the end of the first generation of P2P networks typified by the shutdown of Napster in July 2001.

The term PDA was first used on January 7, 1992 by Apple Computer CEO John Sculley at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, referring to the Apple Newton.

After exhibiting at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 1999, Mike Ramsay announced to the company that the first version of the TiVo digital video recorder would ship " In Q1 ," ( the last day of which is 31 March ) despite an estimated four to five months of work remaining to complete the device.

* January – The world's first personal all-in-one computer ( keyboard / screen / tape storage ), the Commodore PET, is demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago

Consumer dry cells would first appear in the 1890s.

Consumer psychologists suggest that most buyers tend to enter the store and shop to their right first.

It was first shown, privately, at the Chicago Consumer Electronics Show in 1977, and soon the company was receiving 50 calls a day from dealers wanting to sell the computer.

The BluFin India Consumer Confidence Index is the first monthly, statistically robust index of consumer sentiment in India.

The game was first shown by Bullet-Proof Software at the 1992 Consumer Electronics Show.

It is divided into two parts, the first being " The Consumer ", a series of short stories from the early 1990s, the second, " Various Traps, Some Weaknesses ", made up mostly of prose-poems and vignettes, all dating from 1983 – 1986.

Airborne's first of 30 total 767's arrived at Wilmington, and the airline won an award by The Business Consumer Guide.

We did Looking Back and Consumer Guide features that beat the competition out of sight, and we did this not just to surpass our rivals but because we reckoned that rock had finished its first wind around 1969 / 70 and deserved to be treated as history, as a canon of work.

The first ReplayTV model was introduced in January 1999 during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, at the same time as a competing DVR model from rival company TiVo.

Perc, however, was incidentally the first chemical to be classified as a carcinogen by the Consumer Product Safety Commission ( a classification later withdrawn ).

Consumer privacy concerns date back to the first commercial couriers and bankers, who in every culture took strong measures to protect customer privacy, but also in every culture tended to be subject to very harsh punitive measures for failures to keep a customer's information private.

Many systems were sold in the New Orleans area in the ensuing years before the first public demonstration of this integration occurred in 1982 at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, Illinois.

On January 6, 2011, Los Angeles based technology company, Recom Group introduced the first small screen consumer application of the OLED at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in 2012, Recom Group introduced the World's first Video Mic Flag incorporating three 2. 8 " OLED displays on a standard broadcasters mic flag.

The chip, like the first product using it ( the Commodore 64 ), was finished in time for the Consumer Electronics Show in the first weekend of January 1982.

Consumer prices doubled between May and August, alone, and though sharp, mandatory wage hikes had been negotiated between the government, labor and employers, the resulting shock ( known as the Rodrigazo ) ignited protest across Argentina, including a two-day general strike by the CGT ( the first ever against a Peronist administration ).

In 2009, the Consumer Price Index fell for the first time since 1955.

The well-known Nankai Institute of Economics was established in 1927 and soon became one of the most prominent in China being the first non-foreign entity to calculate a Chinese Consumer Price Index.