Sentences with phrase «powered contraption»

SEATTLE — It's not only our collection of newfangled electronic gadgets that keeps growing — the variety of batteries that power these contraptions keeps expanding as well.

Unfortunately, «the state's current open bottle law applies only to motor vehicles, and says nothing about these pedal - powered contraptions,» so that «on tours right now, the vehicle must either be on private property with the owner's permission to serve alcohol, or people hop out when it pulls up to a bar.»

Not exact matches

The incredible contraption was powered by about ten people pedaling, who were pulling a full band performing on a caravan of sorts, along with a grill being used to cook large chunks of meat.

A Swedish engineer has created this wonky, flying contraption, made from eight gas - powered propellers, a small tube frame, an open seat and an R / C controller.

Inspiration comes to us in many different ways: a bird inspiring us to build a contraption to fly, a falling apple uncovering the science behind gravity, the astounding power of a summer storm to garner the electricity to light up our lives.

I was held hostage by a bright yellow contraption with rhythmic suction power.

The Technic models in Fantastic Contraptions include working catapults, crawling spiders, and bipedal walkers, as well as gadgets powered by fans, propellers, springs, magnets, and vibration.

The ruthless vote - rigging contraption that used to arrogantly describe itself as Africa's largest political party, has dissembled so rapidly, soon after it was thrown out of power last year.

For as long as there was the power at the centre to enrich party loyalists, the glue of sudden wealth and influence peddling held the contraption firmly together.

This buglike contraption won the Igor I. Sikorksy prize as the first human - powered helicopter to hover at least 9.8 feet (3 meters) off the ground for a minute or longer.

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!

As I said, CHERISH isn't exactly the most savvy film when it comes to the law, and is especially guilty of funny logic regarding its main contraption of the power - box and ankle bracelet.

Engineer a motorized contraption powered by your imagination.

It all starts with a problem common to every age: Meerson's machine attracts the attention of the politicos, who see it as a way of consolidating power, leaving the scientist no choice but to climb into the contraption herself and decamp for another time, hoping «to prevent the entire universe from being reshaped in the image of a bunch of thugs and reduced to ruin.»

From one of the randomly generated wall ports you pick a basic ingredient which is then pumped out to your conveyor belt and through the myriad of contraptions that may as well be powered by magic for all that I know about them.

Plus, who wouldn't have fun beating up their friends using gear covered contraptions and zeppelin pirates with steam powered limbs?

His truly insane contraption is a crank - powered machine that uses 2,000 marbles and a mind - bending series of levers to create a full song from deconstructed instruments, including parts from a xylophone, violin, and kick drum.

It was this very casual - looking photograph of a group of naked teenagers in a tree in the middle of the night, but I started thinking to myself, «Well, it looks like it's lit with a klieg light, which means you have to rent this gigantic contraption... and then how do you power that in the middle of the forest?»

The experience was a bit bewildering at first, since the studio is a laboratory where the artist has more than a dozen «experiments» going simultaneously: a giant firefly contraption takes up a swing - set zone; materials for an upcoming performance are laid out on every surface of the seating and sofa zone; fish tanks surround a computer zone and provide the staging ground for an oceanic corral project; dozens of human arm forms, cast in a Black Power salute and cast in gold, are lined up along a wall, in preparation for a huge installation in Washington, D.C. this fall; a 3 - D printer is on pause as it creates Lilliputian figures for who - knows - what; and everywhere are various staging grounds of plastic models which will eventually be sprayed in gold and mounted on pins, to create Kaino's now - signature six - foot - tall, glittering gold pin drawings that suggest atomized worlds.

Noting that the solar panels that Carter had installed during his one term (Obama, you might better hurry), McKibben tells a whopper when he says that the contraption provided cheap power.

For those unaware of the first - generation Echo Dot, it's a puck - sized contraption that can be connected to any speaker to turn it into an Alexa - powered device, capable of providing users with weather updates, traffic alerts and even a breakdown of their schedule.

Yet, even with iOS 9's Low Power Mode turned on, the newer phones still manage to make long strides over that plastic (yet colorful) contraption.

As in the early days of television, when confused newbies would peer around the back of the box or wonder how so many people could fit inside the new - fangled contraption, Ben's gran is utterly blown away by the power of this small piece of equipment perched on her kitchen table.

In the charming Galerie Jack n Rose Junior Vintage Balloons illustration, moustached men sail the night sky in fantastical contraptions, including a bicycle powered zeppelin, and balloons with sails and flags.