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The experts recommend building a contraption out of an empty soda bottle, filling it with soapy water, and drowning the stinkbugs inside, but I am dubious.

The whole clanking operation, headquartered on a farm northwest of Kansas City, looks like a patchwork contraption out of the imagination.

It operates in tandem with an equally impressive video-projection apparatus, housed in a podlike contraption out of the "Alien" movies, that throws crystalline images onto an exterior wall measuring seven thousand square feet.

The video, which showed three young girls building a Heath Robinson contraption out of GoldieBlox toys, used the tune to a Beastie Boys song, "Girls", with newly recorded music and rewritten lyrics.

The satellite looks like a contraption out of a Dr. Seuss book: a dish antenna 6 meters across spins like a lasso atop a long boom.

My girly girl can rock a hot pink fairy princess crown and build a mean contraption out of just about anything in any color.

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But perhaps the clearest message this strange contraption sends out is that Valve remains a company of geeks.

Black-clad old women made their glacial way home from spare Catholic churches, and no matter how much we slowed our pace, it still felt rowdy and uncouth to roll by on our 18-speed, mechanized contraptions, tricked out with shock-absorbers and garish paint.

A small on-site museum was filled with strange 19th-century tea-making machines like contraptions out of an H. G. Wells novel.

That's the kind of thing Bristol's Arcadia crew are about, building their grand contraptions out of recycled military hardware.

"It is two different worlds," East said of Formula One and his form of racing, which is performed on both paved and dirt-surfaced oval tracks in single-seat, open-wheel cars with protective roll cages that resemble contraptions out of "Mad Max".

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