Sentence examples for devices were expensive from inspiring English sources

Microsoft's own WinPad and Windows CE devices were expensive flops.

The devices were expensive, heavy, and simply offered more computing power than consumers needed.

Both devices were expensive, but they revolutionized the chemical laboratory by replacing laborious procedures with simple electronic instruments.

Live-action films for these devices were expensive to make; possibly as early as 1898 animated films for these devices were on sale, and could be fastened in loops for continuous viewing.

Satellites and sensing devices are expensive and technically complex, and they need regular maintenance and replacement.

Such devices are expensive, heavy, delicate, adverse to water and need an absolutely reliable power supply.

"Existing devices are expensive both to buy and maintain," he says, whereas the open-source model is more sustainable.

The devices are expensive: $10,000 for a mechanical lift, for instance, and $5,000 for an extra-wide bed.

In a wide-ranging distribution system, the investment cost will be very high if the fault detecting devices are expensive.

Many microencapsulation devices are expensive, difficult to assemble and to use, and often more suitable for large-scale experiments.

Problems with the breeder are that it produces only electricity; can't used the heat produced; would require changing the design of energy-using devices; is expensive.