Sentence examples for cumbersome devices from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sealed batteries are adequate for pacemakers [1] that consume about 10 µW, but not for more demanding applications, so that cumbersome devices are still in use, and that innovative implantable solutions are not even under research.

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.

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.

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

In contrast to previous studies where the osteotomy was fixed using an external fixator [5], we have used plates and screws to avoid tethering of the quadriceps, pin track infections, loosening and the use of a cumbersome device.