Alex Proyas's bizarre fantasy of ancient Egypt is another such – or almost – flimsy contraption of digital crowd scenes, actors in singlets revealing pecs and thighs and very, very ridiculous ancient-Egyptian-god-type hats.
Tropy's wearable time-traveling device was conceptualized early on in the character's design evolution and initially appeared as a belt-like contraption that featured a digital read out displaying the year Tropy intended to travel to.
You do feel pretty cool, in a Peter Parker sort of "I'm a photographer" way, but if you're used to consumer digital cameras, hauling these 1.5-pound contraptions up to your eye for each shot takes some unlearning.
Dubbed the Times Ironman Speed and Distance System, it's a two-piece contraption and combines an Ironman digital watch with a separate GPS unit, which can be strapped to the arm or clipped to the waist.
Masami Akita, who goes by the stage name Merzbow, spent about 75 minutes onstage at Le Poisson Rouge on Sunday night, generating a constant fusillade of sound: from two laptops, four digital-effects stompboxes and a homemade metallic contraption slung around his neck by a guitar strap.
A digital billboard installation shows a 360-degree moving image of the motorcycle laptop contraption and provides technical details highlighting the laptop's computing power.
Is This Good? is a collective of digital creative artists, who devote their time to building weird and wonderful electronic contraptions.
The cardboard contraption was the product of a design workshop Roy taught, where students built digital machines from cardboard and explored questions like: "How do computers work on their fundamental levels?
Four years later, the company is ready to ship their miraculous contraption just in time for you to ink the deal you've made with Cybereus, lord of the digital underworld.
In another segment, Flatow spoke with USC computer graphics impresario Paul Debevec about the contraption he invented to convert real actors – like "Avatar" co-star and "Science Friday" guest Stephen Lang – into fully digital creations.
