Sentence:  Sitting in the courtroom ..., their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted <WSD>adapters</WSD>, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times – the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.