The phrase "a device that performs" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the functionality or purpose of a device in a technical or general context.
Example: "The new smartphone is a device that performs multiple functions, including calling, texting, and browsing the internet."
Alternatives: "a gadget that executes" or "an instrument that carries out".
To achieve this without presuming something about the physics which governs a device that performs the resetting, they explicitly accepted the sound approach to Earman and Norton's Sound vs. Profound dilemma.
Parenthetically, a device that performs at least as well as, and potentially better than, conventional pens may be a good option for any patient who does not tolerate insulin injections by needle or regards these as otherwise uncomfortable.
A clock is a machine in which a device that performs regular movements in equal intervals of time is linked to a counting mechanism that records the number of movements.
And even while protesting that the company had no plans to introduce such a device, he grudgingly acknowledged that combining some of Apple's industrial design and user-interface innovations would be a good idea in a device that performed both phone and computing functions.
While Chinese manufacturers fought price wars over Android handsets, Apple proved people would pay a premium for a device that performed seamlessly and hosted the best third-party apps.
Arising from an array of small scale analytical techniques, an early biological application of microfluidics was a device that performed PCR, improving upon large-scale methods by decreasing the time of each step.
In the EMIME project, we developed a mobile device that performs personalized speech-to-speech translation such that a user's spoken input in one language is used to produce spoken output in another language, while continuing to sound like the user's voice.
"We developed an entirely new product to provide consumers with a stylish, affordable device that performs exactly as a sophisticated yet easy to use player should".
It includes a built-in head tracking device that performs sensor fusion at 1000 Hz of gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer data (https://www.oculus.com/dk2/).
We report a new two-step microfluidic device that performs efficient, continuous, and high throughput small particle separation.
That sensor is far smaller, and far cheaper, than the towering device that performs a similar job from on top of one of Google's cars, which use a lidar instrument, made by a California company called Velodyne that costs around $70,000.
