The phrase "a peripheral device" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to any external device that connects to a computer or other system to add functionality.
Example: "The printer is a peripheral device that allows users to produce hard copies of their documents."
Alternatives: "an external device" or "a supplementary device".
"What could work is using the Vita as a peripheral device in a real life game.
In the future, industry executives close to Microsoft's planning, the Xbox will be offered as a peripheral device for other Windows-based computers already in the home.
The serial peripheral interface master controller uses hardware slave selection to identify a peripheral device with which it wishes to exchange data.
[New; wording as approved by LC, CCC, BL, ACOC] Material (data and/or program(s)) encoded for manipulation by computer or by a peripheral device attached to a computer (e.g., CD-ROM player).
The Microsoft announcement is the clearest evidence yet that the company, which is struggling in a distant, unprofitable second place in the video game business against Sony, is trying to make its next-generation Xbox game machine more of a peripheral device connected to the PC in the home.
Besides the increased throughput and the inherent parallelization of the data flows, the serial nature of those links and the packet-based protocols allow an easy geographical decoupling of a peripheral device.
A shoe designer at Adidas uses SensAble's FreeForm, an upright peripheral device that resembles a desk lamp, to sculpt a sneaker on his screen as if he were sculpting the shoe out of rubber and foam.
The collaboration has resulted in the Optical Mouse by Starck, a slick peripheral device.
In order to hack into the traffic, it acquired a straightforward peripheral device using the 802.15.4 specification, in this case the ATMEL AVR Raven with Contiki firmware.
Except as required to comply with standards issued by the Access Board under paragraph (2), nothing in paragraph (1) requires the installation of specific accessibility-related software or the attachment of a specific accessibility-related peripheral device at a workstation of a Federal employee who is not an individual with a disability.
The company is creating a digital language for recording, recreating and transmitting fragrances, and is also preparing to sell a small computer peripheral device, called the iSmell, that would act as a personal scent synthesizer.
