Sentences with word «contraption»

The word "contraption" refers to a device or machine that is complicated or strange in design, often used to accomplish a specific task. Full definition
Most visitors to the cat house are unable to even tell that Boo Boo has any sort of contraption in his mouth.
Announcing Northway Games» next project: Fantastic Contraption for the HTC Vive.
Snorkelers float on top, hanging onto surfboard - like contraptions with spotlights shining down.
I have my space set up so I can swivel my chair to the right and play a miniature version of Contraption in the air there, complete with a miniature little Neko.
to make some sort of contraption for it!
If a student is sick enough, they get sent around the corner, to a room with a crazy - looking, Rube - Goldberg - like contraption known as the «Gesundheit Machine.»
(I figured out this was the best method only AFTER I frothed myself with nearly a entire cup of coffee) My son is now my official coffee frother and everyday this little contraption makes me feel like I have my own personal coffee shop.
We've started live streaming Fantastic Contraption on our Twitch stream every Thursday at noon PST.
After almost getting stuck in the little contraption at the park's entrance, I knew that some of what was here was nothing but a deathtrap for a big man.
The developers of upcoming VR game Fantastic Contraption used a HTC Vive headset, a camera and a couch to come up with a very good way of communicating the VR games experience to the uninitiated without resorting to those weird fisheye videos that show you the user's point of view.
London Design Festival: this mechanical contraption by artist Martin Smith and his design company Laikingland will wake you up by chirping like a bird (+ movie).
We've started localizing Fantastic Contraption into other languages.
14 At the time, the machine had more moving parts than nearly any other contraption in the United States.
In fact, for many years it was considered poor manners to use that metal contraption called a fork.
The US electricity sector, for instance, is a Rube Goldberg contraption of overlapping jurisdictions, regulated monopolies, and quasi-markets.
You don't have to choose an exploding chemistry experiment or complicated building contraption if those aren't your -LCB- or your child's -RCB- interests.
Fortunately, Sylvan Goldman had a better idea: cross two wire baskets with a folding chair and put the whole contraption on wheels.
After our meal was devoured, out came this darling little metal contraption with strawberries, blackberries and little puffs of meringue popped onto the points of the arms with a bowl of powered sugar to dip the lovelies into!
Something of a cross between a station wagon and a van, it's a tall, boxy - looking contraption with a slide - away nose — a vehicle that will be noticed, but not for its contributions to auto aesthetics.
To tune how much light is received, conventional devices use mechanical contraptions like the blades that form the adjustable aperture in cameras.
Two such contraptions by Ariel Schlesinger are a highlight of Regen Projects» contribution to Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA, the Getty - led exhibitions throughout the region looking at the dialogue between Latino and Latin American art.
Then, Pazienza gets into a car accident and then she leaves his because of the crazy contraption on his head.
I've had them at restaurants, at other people's houses, from the toaster, and with those rotating waffle - making contraptions at hotels.
I never could make Fantastic Contraption work the way it was intended to... good thing I could usually kludge a way that wasn't expected, at least in the early going.
With characteristic excess, she rolled up and bound together 10,000 pounds of mattresses and smeared them with 1,000 pounds of Entenmann's cakes, which gave off a sugary scent, and suspended the entire contraption from the ceiling.
At various points throughout the game, you stumble across this duct - taped flying contraption called a Buzzer, which looks like something you would see in one of those Red Bull energy drink commercials.
I've been steadily filling our house with cardboard contraptions while I work through the Labo kits for review, and on top of that I've been playing Project Nimbus: Code Mirai and plugging away at God of War, which is pretty good.
These handy hang - from - the ceiling contraptions don't actually lower the temperature, but make it feel that way.
From there the whole contraption took on an unpredictable life of its own, like all Tinguely machines.
They build complex contraptions out of wood, wheels, and whatever else is lying around, or they collect and collate rocks, shells, and coins.
The odd - looking plastic contraption uses vacuum / plunger tech (or witchcraft) to rapidly filter and brew coffee without bitterness or grit in your cup.
All of a sudden the stuffed bear at the back of the cupboard that they hadn't looked at since birth became THE favourite possession...... along with the countless, pointless happy meal toys, the unopened 1000 piece hot wheels contraption from 3 Christmases past.....
Bell's colleague Kurt Smith, a biomedical engineer who financed the project, envisioned a system that would «help people with all of their health, not just «your heart's not working properly — here's a new contraption for it.»
Reportedly, Elephone plans to load the ELE with Android Wear software, which makes it even harder to believe the wrist - worn contraption will actually go on sale in the near future.
With the missions brings discovery, as you do have one of a few strange contraptions to aid you; this being the Discovery tool.
These clever contraptions allow you to hold two babies at the same time while keeping your hands free (a.k.a. twin baby wearing).
Freely placing a square in certain contraptions allows the player to control mechanical parts of the level, like rotating platforms or propelling a boat.
The latest video shows a new escort mission, where you'll be guiding a ball through a maze, using both your steady stream of ink and various contraptions around the course like a larger than life version of Mouse Trap...
A new Porsche six - cylinder feels like it would spin smoothly to centrifuge speeds; this air - cooled contraption sounds like it might fly apart at 5000 rpm.
In the second half of the 17th century, the chemist and polymath Robert Boyle and philosopher Thomas Hobbes engaged in a divisive debate centered on a temperamental, mechanical contraption known as an air pump.
Sackboy's new set of simple but wonderfully powerful tools lets you create contraptions whose behaviour you can control, and populate new landscapes with Sackbots — automated characters who can help or hinder players.
This artwork is a one - of - a-kind mechanical contraption consisting of intertwined wires, steel rollers, and 56 paint brushes.
The other major sculpture is one of Hansen's so - called «fountains» — elaborately jerry - rigged contraptions featuring buckets, hoses and light fixtures, which pour and recycle supplies of water.
Even when you use the best, fanciest, most «mom - friendly» pump, there's no escaping the fact that you're hooked up to a complicated contraption designed to mechanically extract milk from your body.
For Falcon's Fortress Al - Hadid looks to the past resurrecting ingenious contraptions while reminding us of the contributions of intrepid scholars from the Islamic Golden Age and beyond.
Time and time again people geek out over various contraptions for washing your clothes.
Freedom is one of the reasons I believe people like Fantastic Contraption so much.
Love it or hate it, if you're pumping breastmilk, you're likely spending a lot of time each day attached to a battery - powered contraption.
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