Contraption

The script provides an admirable fulcrum for such musings with the title contraption -- run by a former Tibetan monk (Christopher Plummer) who cut a deal with the devil (Tom Waits), and which now reveals the dreams and temptations of those who venture into it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That "contraption" is a very handsome tricycle with a VW engine. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This crazy contraption is a wearable sensor unit that uploads its data onto pachube, a kind of info-collection network. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Created by boffins at Massachusetts University of Technology (MIT), the contraption is described as “an immersive architectural solution for the advanced WoW (World of Warcraft) player that provides and anticipates all life needs”. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This fine contraption is called the ultimate hair pulley Well little boys use to use it to pull little girls hair with, they never got in trouble because they were not actually touching the little girl, however it backfired when the little girl got ahold of it and tortured the little boy ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

But, seriously, this divine pizza-making contraption is effing coo-el. ❋ Tyler (2009)

This crazy contraption is slated to be Australia's very first carbon neutral office building! ❋ Unknown (2010)

Because the whole contraption is in the laundry room, I'm contemplating adding a quiet computer case fan as an exhaust and tying it into the dryer's exhaust. maxtheape rogsim ❋ Unknown (2009)

The sheer genius of the mechanical contraption is what has always drawn my attention. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm talking about the obvious failure of VSE, ESAS, Constellation, Ares I and V and Orion and whatever that lunar lander contraption is called. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The only way a small business can afford such a contraption is to pass this cost on to the consumer. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The contraption is meant to facilitate “lucid dreaming,” in which the sleeper is aware of and influences the dream. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The donut-shaped contraption is basically a souped up MRI that scans the prefrontal cortex region of your brain (which is where decisions are made) and then predicts actions before you make them. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But Ronald Arkin of Georgia Institute of Technology, US, says the new contraption is a poor advertisement for home robots - which can be more sophisticated. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“The companion volume explains what that weird contraption is supposed to do!” ❋ Unknown (2005)

A much smaller experimental contraption is a mud-filled condom (size large, nonlubricated) that is set rolling down a plywood ramp to measure the rate of deformation — how rapidly the latex ellipse loses and regains its shape, over and over. ❋ Unknown (1999)