Sentences with phrase «mechanical contraptions»

Attracted by failed quests for knowledge from the past, Conrad Shawcross RA often appropriates redundant theories and methodologies to create large - scale mechanical contraptions and strange robotic devices.

With eight varied chapters ranging from ice to gravity puzzles to mechanical contraptions, and with a challenging boss at the end of each level.

To tune how much light is received, conventional devices use mechanical contraptions like the blades that form the adjustable aperture in cameras.

Coaching his friend, using a makeshift mechanical contraption, Brady mutters: «Ride it like it's gonna be the last horse you'll ever get on.»

The extremely flammable ammonia was used as refrigerant, leading to a reluctance in adoption of the mechanical contraption, especially when the natural ice industry was flourishing — after all, one enterprising New Englander had kickstarted a global trade in ice (see The Frozen Water Trade), figuring how to make a commodity out of an item that nature supplied in abundance all winter long.

This artwork is a one - of - a-kind mechanical contraption consisting of intertwined wires, steel rollers, and 56 paint brushes.

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).

Dubbed the «Robo - Rainbow,» the mechanical contraption allows the user to paint stripes of all colours in an arc, hands - free, while riding a bike.

Not exact matches

Of course, there are other mechanical devices that promise us a beach - ready body, the only problem is, the obstacle of clawing over the other gym - goers to get to these fantastic contraptions.

Best of all, the rear seats fold flat in the most breathtakingly simple mechanical origami this side of an Alton Brown cooking contraption — no motors are involved, just a gentle tug on one of the two handles mounted cleverly (and accessibly) by the rear hatch.

Freely placing a square in certain contraptions allows the player to control mechanical parts of the level, like rotating platforms or propelling a boat.

Hawkinson improvises contraptions, usually with mechanical and sound elements, rooted in the experience and form of his own body.

Next to the displays there are videos of Jeong's previous performances, where various objects have become homemade contraptions to be danced and wrestled with — mechanical, robotic, human, menacing and fragile all at once.

Originating in the fluid forms of Rodin, the organic curvilinear forms of Art Nouveau and Jugenstil, and the ovoid forms of Constantin Brancusi, it attracted even Constructivists like Vladimir Tatlin (1885 - 1953), who based his Letatlin flying contraption on an organically biodynamic principle (the flight of birds) rather than a mechanical one.

Indeed, the show's initial concept was organized around Anne McGuire's 1996 video «When I Was a Monster, «made in the aftermath of a near - fatal accident, in which the artist sits naked on a chair with her forearm braced by a mechanical medical contraption.

Borg told Digital Trends last year that he sometimes gets «a little scared» when he flies his extraordinary contraption, though he said it's because he fears «pilot stupidity» rather than mechanical failure.