Sentence examples for cumbersome device from inspiring English sources

Mr. Russo uses the slightly cumbersome device of having Lucy write about this in a memoir.

He was not the inventor of the stereoscope; that honor belongs to Charles Wheatstone, a British scientist who had built a more cumbersome device twenty years earlier.

." and other works, imagines a real-life trolley case on trial in the "Court of Public Opinion," a clever but slightly cumbersome device.

Although Edison had invented the phonograph in 1877, he soon turned his attention to other technologies, especially electric power and lighting, and his machine, which recorded and reproduced sound on a rotating cylinder wrapped in tinfoil, remained an unreliable and cumbersome device.

"Users have realised that a nearly 5-inch screen isn't such a cumbersome device," said Joshua Flood of ABI Research in January, and forecast then that countries such as Japan and South Korea, and then India, China and Malaysia, would be major markets for the larger devices.

When you look at the startup's press photos, it looks like a cumbersome device.

As brain-wave technologies get cheaper and more popular, some company founders hope that consumers, who seem to be acclimating to devices like the increasingly ubiquitous Fitbit, will consider other, more cumbersome devices and procedures.

Until now reading aids for the visually impaired and the blind have been cumbersome devices that recognize text in restricted environments, or, more recently, have been software applications on smartphones that have limited capabilities.

Co-ordinating the colour and brightness of the source beam with the scanning action of the mirrors produces a full-colour image which appears to float in space at arm's length from the viewer.The first VRDs were bulky, cumbersome devices.

Determining your location used to require such cumbersome devices as a map, compass and ruler.

Humans had used bone and horn to sew for tens of thousands of years, but the first patent for a machine that could do it without the need for such cumbersome devices as pins and thimbles was submitted in 1790.