Your kid has copped a squat in a Tupperware contraption not connected to your sewer line, and the bigger it is -- the more it looks like a truck driver stopped by and left it -- the more you must jump up and down and produce high-pitched chants and elaborate dances.
So he fused some bicycle parts and connected the contraption to a high-end computer workstation running a custom-built flight simulator.
sits a Willy Wonka-like contraption sprouting pistons, crankshafts and cylinders connected to a pipe running through a wall to a large tank that squats outside the early-20th-century building.
During my radiation sessions, at the treatment facility down the road, the handle will be connected to the lead-lined contraption that houses the pellets.
He and William English, a fellow engineer at the Stanford Research Institute, devised a wooden contraption that rolled on metal wheels and connected to the desktop with a cord that resembled the tail of a mouse.
All the working parts are exposed – rusty cogs, bicycle wheels, coils, springs and old sewing machine parts, connected together like some quivering Jean Tinguely contraption.
She then uses a "pistol," connected by wires to a boxy contraption, to zap the painted flesh with infrared rays.
Tells about the dial-detector, which is used to trace calls which are dialled; and the newest contraption, and induction coil, a cOntrivance that inhales a telephone conversation without being connected to the circuit.
These contraptions are very simple, consisting of the equivalent of one or two burners on a gas stove connected by a hose to a propane tank.
Tenner, an expert on innovation and the author of "Why Things Bite Back," offers a collection of loosely connected essays on what he calls body technologies, like sneakers, chairs, helmets and eyeglasses, and examines how these contraptions have modified our bodies and behavior, usually for the worse.
