Heath Robinsonesque

Adjective

 * 1) Ingenious (and often complex) but absurdly impractical or even useless.
 * 2) * 1987, Barnaby Page, How to copy half a million cassettes (in Crash magazine issue 47, December 1987)
 * Putting it all together: the cassette’s been run through a labelling machine, and now this Heath Robinsonesque device adds the inlay and the box in one swift operation, taking about three seconds for each cassette.
 * Putting it all together: the cassette’s been run through a labelling machine, and now this Heath Robinsonesque device adds the inlay and the box in one swift operation, taking about three seconds for each cassette.