Judy turns on the green light on the EMDR contraption.
The privately run ferry arrived at this bend in the green river in 1950, and the original boat, a wooden contraption, survived until around 1980.
It's emanating from a beautifully elaborate venti-sized contraption adorned in a "Starbud" decal resembling the green coffee logo basics all know and love.
In the middle of a metal building, stacked with hulking racecar engines from the internal combustion engine's golden age, sits a small contraption hooked to a forest of red, white and green wires and tubes that hang from the ceiling and snake around the floor.
On Saturday and Sunday only, children can help build a huge Rube Goldberg-type contraption, made entirely of recycled materials, in "Invent It: Green Machine" (11 a.m. and 1 30 p.m). and test their ecological knowledge with the museum's environmental mascot, Garbagena (4:15 p.m).
Later into the season it would be the neat shredding of our own runner beans through a hand-cranked contraption clamped to the edge of the kitchen table, so bright green and sappy as they tumbled into an enamelled tin dish (always the same one) as if by magic.
Although Omni's green-and-black platform is its most eye-catching feature, the plastic and steel contraption itself does not feature any electronics.
Mr. McCornack's sole rival by Monday was a green Dodge Dakota that runs on oxygen, hydrogen and methane power converted from burned wood in a large black contraption.
They added hundreds of small glass particles to the water, then covered the whole contraption with a large cardboard box, which provided a dark background for (and some eye protection from) a powerful green laser situated underneath.
The contraption fools Mother Nature.
