'clever invention' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, "Jeff's clever invention revolutionized the way we use electricity."
Clever invention does not equal market demand.
"I think Naxos is a very clever invention," he said.
A clever invention meant large pieces could be accurately shrunk to table-centrepiece size.
The other clever invention is an oversized electronic, interactive pillbox that reminds users the time and dosage of their medicines.
One company or country can benefit from the development and marketing of a clever invention, while the robust diffusion and adoption of such inventions can also benefit many others.
With his clever invention of a tragic case that sounds all too real, Kelly lampoons and excoriates documentary drama, presenting less a search for the truth than a troubling exploration of whether truth — treacherous, tortuous, mutable — can ever be found.
In that context, are these clever inventions?
My favourite character is Professor Shackleton, one of the other racers, because of his clever inventions including SNOBOT.
The surprise (to me) is that it does so more in the prose itself than the many clever inventions comprising the story.
In the early 17th century, Jacques Callot rose to prominence in French art: gifted as a draftsman above all, he recorded with the pen his clever inventions and great picture stories, primarily in bold abbreviations.
These are all clever inventions, but what makes the novel (translated by Noura Wedell) so haunting is its vision of a near future in which society has fractured along every possible national, tribal and sectarian fault line.
