A gigantic contraption, it had a warning stencilled on its side: "For Official Use Only".
Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, has a museum of sorts filled with some of the unique contraptions it has built since its inception in 1936 -- some of it "really, really bizarre stuff," said Evon Beckford, the organization's senior director of electronics.
Though parents stocked up on the contraption last holiday season, it has since been discounted to $70.
Then I got the idea to create this machine". He is referring to the "bionic arm" - a robotic contraption that looks like it has been built out of scrap metal and inspired by cyborg movies.
Her mother nodded and said, "I don't look at a suit unless it has a contraption in it, preferably pulleys".
A white plastic contraption sits around your neck; it has a Burger King logo and a caddy in front of your face big enough for a burger.
At their headquarters in Roehampton, south-west London, you'll find a series of machines all designed to test out equipment - each a charmingly home-made contraption that has the air of a mad inventor about it.
"It is very important for us to understand in finance that the entire contraption that has been built up over the last thirty or forty years has so much paper in it, so much debt, so much leverage, that we probably have a fifteen- or twenty-year period of working our way out of it.
The contraption Mr. Donaldson has lugged here, a seven-pound Phillips large-format camera, is as delightfully slow-paced and old-fashioned as his ancestors' island.
The 18-foot-high, 661-pound contraption has a rough, dirty job to do, and it accomplishes it with a yard-wide, 22-pound fake blade that crashes convincingly, horrifying new batches of customers who enter the room.
