The invention relates to a device for cutting a workpiece, mounted onto an elongate rod, into a spiral formation. The composition includes a polymer containing low amounts of sulfonate that prove as effective in carbonate and phosphate inhibition as polymers containing much higher amounts of sulfonate. An elastic member made of a material having an elastic property so as to deform in accordance with a surface shape of the slave medium during contact pressure application and to restore to an original surface shape thereof during release of the slave medium from the master medium can be interposed between a back of the slave medium and a pressing surface of a pressing support member. Both the receptors and the devices and circuits have metallization contacts enabling to establish electrical contact between them. With the projections being tapered, modules of adjacent rows can be put together by interdigiting the projections with the modules of adjacent rows held at an angle, preferably an acute angle beyond 90\xb0. The method also includes distributing the first function from the mobile endpoint to the first component device in response to determining that the first component device is operable to perform a first function of the plurality of functions associated with the mobile endpoint.