It comes in many flavours, but the ur-myth runs thus: a young man with more ideas than dollars hides in his parents' garage, has a eureka moment and devises some new gadget or program that changes the world – or at least distracts swaths of its population.
The walls display new products such as marshmallow-flavoured vodka not quite Wonka's edible marshmallow pillows, but as likely to send you to sleep.The centre devises new ideas for Africa, the world's most exciting market for stiff drinks.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said that his cabinet will consider splitting TEPCO and reviewing Japan's energy monopolies when it devises a new energy policy this year.
I don't, however, see him as the right man for righting the ship.DIA: Sarah PalinMr Salam: If Sarah Palin focuses on energy policy and devises a brilliant programme to decarbonise the American economy and create millions of high-wage jobs, she will be very good for the Republican Party.
It has devised a testing system, called Agitator, that examines a program and devises test-scripts automatically.
Meanwhile Mr Osborne devises cunning traps for Labour over welfare spending.This is a forensic blinkered pursuit of votes, rather than growth, and it could backfire.
That logic prompted the Bank of England to outsource its printing to De La Rue in 2003.The firm devises 100 or so new banknotes each year as well as around 2,000 "design concepts"—a security feature, say, or a new image for a big-denomination bill.
The live situations that Mr Sehgal devises are memorable for another, simpler reason: memory is the only way to recall them.
Traditionally, a researcher postulates an idea, devises an experiment to test it and then reports the results.
In January the city of San Francisco agreed to allow Lyft and Uber to continue operating while it devises new rules, due by July.
But from the 2008 model year onwards, the Environmental Protection Agency EPAA)—the body that devises the fuel-economy tests and checks the data that vehicle manufacturers provide for the government's Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) programme revised its testing procedure to match peoples' driving habits much better.
