It involves the transfer and displacement of interests, purposes, devices, and inscriptions.
For industrial purposes devices for robotic cell and sample propagation were developed that support high throughput screenings of millions of individual cell clones, thereby allowing the identification of those cell clones with favorable expression of the transgene.
We have a general purpose device for acquiring culture, technology and language.
Google unveiled a "conceptual" version of a multi-purpose device last year at a developer conference.
For those who simply want to send and receive e-mail, there is a simpler, single-purpose device called MailStation.
He rebelled at building a special-purpose device when the technology existed to build a general-purpose one.
The implications were clear: Flip was a fat, single-purpose device that was about to be out-classed by the ultrathin Nano.
But if you're saying everyone is your competitor in entertainment, then why not just turn that second screen into a general-purpose device like a tablet?
The general-purpose device he had in mind, however, would be a lot like a computer, and at that time computers intimidated people while calculators did not.
Chris Green, vice president of industrial design of devices for Amazon said: "The Kindle is like a hammer, a single purpose device, and this is the best we can make it.
Alan Turing, who had earlier articulated the concept of a universal computing device (described in the section The Turing machine), may have pushed the project farther in the direction of a general-purpose device than his government originally had in mind.
