Sentence examples for device as it is from inspiring English sources

A top-ranking al-Qaida leader, in US custody, Abu-Zubaydah, told investigators that Bin Laden was seeking material to make a dirty bomb, or radioactive dispersal device as it is often known.

Try to do more than back up a computer with a network-attached storage device, as it is clumsily called, and it will be only a matter of time before you are buried in a configuration menu only an I.T. technician could fully understand.

I was baffled to find that despite also being able to handle video calling, which is just as much of a gimmick on this device as it is on every other phone that can do it, it does not have picture messaging capability.

Up in the cloud there will be a body of data for each individual that will accompany them through life, he explains, and it will not be tied to any particular device, as it is today.Again, what will make this possible is virtualisation this time of client devices, not servers.

Indeed, the undeniable pleasure one took at making one's way through the "device" (as it is called) was derived in part from the constant Brownian flux of people wandering about, some of whom you inevitably knew and even liked, so that whatever surprise or content the work failed to provide, was offset by a chance encounter that added a touch of human warmth to the event.

And even then, it was nowhere near as ubiquitous a device as it is today.

But Stothard's artful blend of truth and fiction is the right device, as it was once for Tacitus and Seneca, to nail the absurdity of those times – just as novelists Philip Hensher, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan are "often better than the best journalism".

The Boxee Box is a great cord cutting device as it's really a  multifunction device aimed at two different demographics.

This is the third delay of the device, as it was at first pushed from launch day in June until the second half of July.

To what extent this will all work as promised still remains to be seen – the "Karma Black" device, as it's called, isn't being made available for sale until September, the company says.

Business users, especially, might find the Fuze to be a good workhorse device as it's got a pretty good keyboard, tons of software, a nice interface, and GPS.