Reconfigurable

But increasingly, as with the operations of putting together a startup company, or venture capital, or financial derivatives, or digitization, or combinatorial biology, they are about combining functionalities—actions and business processes—for short-term reconfigurable purposes. ❋ W. Brain Arthur (2009)

A 'reconfigurable' computer, it can re-arrange its internal circuitry to suit the task at hand. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This kind of reconfigurable robot could have many uses in space, including performing inspections, assembling devices, and carrying objects. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I dig the idea of reconfigurable clothing that isn't ugly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He says few of his friends understand his day job in reconfigurable computing, and don't care to chat about it. ❋ Katy McLaughlin (2011)

Microsoft patents reconfigurable keyboard with touch inputs (electronista) ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

This year's unofficial better mousetrap award goes to the Trunk Organizer, a collapsible, reconfigurable, compartmentalized little polyester number that can keep all kinds of stuff from flopping around, and even has a removable insulated and waterproof cooler to keep groceries cool or warm. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Once this challenge is met, chief information officers will be able to think about an entirely different IT model: provisioning services by linking multiple providers and applications in a reconfigurable, end-to-end manner. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"They always told me that quitters never win and winners never quit, and they really believed in my idea," said Phillips, now 23 and an owner of Lindsay Phillips, maker of SwitchFlops, sandals with easily reconfigurable straps. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While more advanced production processes make it more costly and complicated to design custom chips from scratch, reconfigurable chips become economical for more applications, executives of the two companies argue. ❋ Don Clark (2010)

Doing so requires building an expanded, reconfigurable network of resources that goes beyond the traditional boundaries of the organization to expand stakeholder relationships including private-public-social enterprise partnerships, generating radically new economics for all participants in the ecosystem. ❋ Venkat Ramaswamy (2010)

Microsoft patents reconfigurable keyboard with touch inputs electronista ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sactionals are guaranteed for life, reconfigurable into dozens of shapes and they come with covers that are removable and washable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Akerley's rendition of this coming-of-age tale unfolds on a set whose bed, reconfigurable wall fragments and repeated pastel design motifs give the production a tinge of pot-brownie dreaminess -- a slightly abstract touch that helps fend off memories of the movie's visual specificity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When we were fantasizing about Venice as a reconfigurable jigsaw puzzle, we had in mind, among other things, PARA's submission for an ideas competition to “rejuvenate” the “ruins” of New York City's Roosevelt Island. ❋ Unknown (2008)