Jason and SOPHIA the 3rd are then shrunken and injected inside Fred to do battle with the microbots and their contraptions – something which Ireland described as "a pretty clear video game spin on Fantastic Voyage kind of adventure".
The bikes ranged from a four bike (tandem-mounted-on-a-tandem) contraption to something that looked like a pair of skis.
During the following decade, he continued to refine the system, testing his blind subjects with more and more complex tasks while trying to shrink the enormous contraption into something more manageable.
Perhaps Japan can be convinced that the $355 million flying contraption is something they need.
"The drawings, they're like looking at eighteenth-century flying contraptions or something," he said.
Some sort of contraption had broken something, possibly by dropping it.
For the next few hours, the kilnlike contraptions, which look something like antique washing machines, burn through several bags of the sawdust, pumping dense smoke through pipes that lead to the ovens.
The target or basket, as it's called is not a hole in the ground but a quirky contraption that looks like something between an antique TV antenna and a broken umbrella.
In operation since May, the contraption, which looks like something out of a Terry Gilliam movie, uses nets and a conveyor belt to scoop up to 25 tons of trash daily and deposit it in a floating dumpster.
Wireless keyboards can be placed well away from the computer, while attached keyboards can be hung on the monitor, pushed to one side, pushed under if on a tray contraption or hidden underneath something.
