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The artist's contraption was designed to counter the effects of the Chinese capital's dangerously high air pollution levels.

The contraption was designed by Nasir Mazhar in collaboration with Gaga's own creative production company, Haus of Gaga.

Today's big IBM contraptions are designed to run software written for their great-grandfathers, albeit much faster and more cheaply.

The metal-and-wood contraption, which was designed to look like a man and was dressed as a sorcerer, amazed audiences by playing master-level chess against human opponents around the world, for seventy years.

He once lost control of an unwieldy contraption nicknamed the Flying Bedstead that was designed to help astronauts train for the lunar landing.

Not only that, but she uses a special contraption that is designed to give kids an unfair advantage over incompetent grown-ups such as yours truly.

No doubt this contraption had been designed by someone unfamiliar with, or indifferent to, a woman's anatomy, because going to the bathroom while stuffed into this sausage skin would have made a great Mission Impossible episode.

You're right if all of these budget shenanigans sound like some kind of Rube Goldberg contraption that's designed to hide from taxpayers where their money is going.

The world's biggest and most complex scientific contraption would bring a smile to any youngster's face: It's designed to smash things together really, really hard.

Inside one building, I saw calutrons — enormous contraptions, about fifteen feet high, relying on powerful magnets to enrich uranium — that were designed more than seventy years ago, and are still kept on standby to produce stable isotopes, if necessary.

They are designed to pick up the echo of the seismic vibrations created by contraptions called "thumper trucks" pounding the ground.