This makes it a little more unwieldy for using when walking, but it's small enough to just stick in a pocket, so it's not an issue unless you don't care for dangling cables.
But packing in the score or so of these, one for each joint, that are needed to operate a complicated robotic hand, and then adding the gears and other components required to translate the motors' movements into useful actions, means that a hand can quickly end up too large and unwieldy for domestic use.
Conversely, our approach may be unwieldy for clinical use but finds its application at organization and policy levels where many issues call for classification of individuals into pragmatically meaningful groups.
This 'convergent evolution' has, we believe, been driven by the need to develop a tool which preserves the rich data collection possibilities of direct observation without being impossibly unwieldy for live use in clinical settings.
The construction of such models is unwieldy and impractical for use by practitioners.
Grid middleware, which is meant to enable access to grid resources, is currently widely seen as being too heavyweight and, in consequence, unwieldy for general scientific use.
Some people consider the 1.5-pound iPad unwieldy for one-handed use; Toshiba's 10.1-inch Folio 100 is even heavier.
These included converting the hulls to cargo ships, passenger liners, or 22000 LT oil barges, but most of the ideas were rejected as the hulls were thought to be too large and unwieldy for the proposed alternative uses.
Orde said water cannons, which some commentators have called for, would be "entirely inappropriate and more importantly entirely ineffective" as they were unwieldy and used for fixed locations.
