Contraptions send cameras zooming like smart bombs into a photograph of the new Museum of Modern Art, and spinning around a toy model of a swarthy, shaggy-haired old man like an interrogator circling a suspect.
Scientists shut him in a womblike contraption that sends him into the past.
Instead, the movie puts him inside his gleaming contraption and sends him out on extremely unimaginative adventures trying to change the course of time.
A suburban amusement park outside Sacramento has gotten so many complaints from neighbors about bloodcurdling screams that it has instituted a no-shrieking rule for its new ride, the Scandia Screamer, a windmill-like contraption that sends people plunging 16 stories at nearly 60 miles per hour.
Our friends had sent us contraptions for Gus to sleep in, told us which items to bring home from the maternity ward, even which detergent to wash his first post-hospital outfit in.
So in 2007 Dr. Sohn led another expedition to the area, sending a homemade contraption down to the seafloor with high-definition video cameras and a sampling device.
Our own eyes are imperfect contraptions, Dawkins said; any engineer "would send them right back".
"I'm a pretty big Pearl Jam fan," said Bart Blasengame, a staff writer at Details magazine who was sent one of the contraptions with "Riot Act" inside.
But the head of the set-top box division sent Mr. Rosner and his contraption to see Eric Shanks, executive vice president of DirecTV Entertainment.
It was one of the fake tongue extensions from The Exorcist, with a note saying, 'Just stick a dab of peanut butter on the end and put it on.' I was like, 'Holy shit!'" After seeing Jaws, he sent a little finger-puppet contraption to Steven Spielberg, but he didn't reply.
