Sentence examples for includes a contraption from inspiring English sources
Say, the iRobot Braava Jet 240 wet mop ($199/$169 3.88), or Don't Lose Your Cool, ($19.99/$10.42; 2.4), a party game that includes a contraption you strap to your head that measures rises in heart rate and which presumably was tested on customers shopping here.
The new store has a display of antique chocolate-making equipment, including a contraption for liqueur fillings that looks like an old-fashioned diver's helmet.
For one thing, it was made with instruments that included a contraption made of MDF called "the Chopper" and something that sounds like "a computer doing a complicated sum".
Feather said creating his pieces for the exhibit, which includes an elaborate contraption that pays homage to artist and inventor Rube Goldberg, has inspired new work.
"I've had other friends come up with interesting ways to deal with the wind," Mr. Lee said, including "an elaborate contraption with pins, fishing lines and weights".
A 1954 local phone directory hung from a crank-phone obviously several decades older; and a collection of old farm machinery included an enormous contraption Charley told me was a chaff cutter, a device for cutting straw.
Some included a tourbillon, a tiny contraption that slowly rotates the main mechanism, thus reducing the distorting effects of gravity.
The wooden contraption included a key that lifted pins, allowing a latch bar to slide free.
Sculptural contraptions include a full-size leather upholstered pedal car and a sadly grounded tea-chest aeroplane.
He also collected bits of discarded technology from the nearby White Sands missile base and built contraptions, including a haunted "house" that he describes as "too strange and terrifying for even a single kid to visit".But he had few friends of his own age in any case.
After explaining the inner workings of complex contraptions, including a hulking 1980s-vintage tortellini maker whose metal fingers replicate the movements perfected by countless Italian grandmothers, he emphasized that his company was not merely in the business of selling, but of matching equipment to each restaurant's needs.
