Note 5 - Property and Equipment and Assets Held for Sale

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract]

Property, Plant and Equipment Disclosure [Text Block]

5.       Property and Equipment and Assets Held for Sale

Property and equipment is stated at cost and is depreciated using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the related assets and consists of the following (in thousands):

	December 31,
	2013			2012
Equipment (useful life 3 - 15 years)	$	1,472		$	5,963
Tooling (useful life 2 - 5 years)		769			2,600
Furniture and fixtures (useful life 5 years)		115			132
Computer software (useful life 3 years)		521			462
Leasehold improvements (the shorter of useful life or lease life)		589			633
Construction in progress		9			50
Property and equipment at cost		3,475			9,840
Less: accumulated depreciation		(2,939	)		(8,040	)
Property and equipment, net	$	536		$	1,800

Depreciation expense was $660 thousand, $637 thousand and $589 thousand for the years ending December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

Due to the sale of our pool products business in November 2013 and the closing of our facilities in Pleasanton, California, we performed an evaluation of property, plant and equipment located in California. In performing this review, we sought out a buyer of the assets for which we no longer had use, and recorded an impairment charge of $608 thousand, which represented the difference between the fair value of the asset group and its carrying value. These assets were reclassified on our Consolidated Balance Sheets under the caption “Assets held for sale” as of December 31, 2013, and were subsequently sold for $130 thousand; the carrying value of the assets after the impairment charge.