Ross Rubin, consumer electronics director of industry analysis at the NPD Group, a Port Washington, N.Y., market research firm, says that multi-media contraptions such as these have been the driving force in car stereo systems for the last two years.
One thinks our idea of God is a kind of neuropsychological tic and plunks a ridiculous-looking contraption he calls a God helmet on research subjects' heads to try to prove it.
Hadn't researched it too good, mind, since heaven be praised the contraption was duff.
Laura Jellinek's set conjures the fever dreams of a student buried in research, with documents taped across the walls and a clothes-line-like contraption from which props and costumes and more papers dangle, to be plucked.
I first became aware of Arad and the clinic when researching the Bod Pod about nine months ago.The Bod Pod is an egg-like contraption that uses air displacement plethysmography to reckon how much blubber those who clamber inside are sporting.
Even as the research moves forward, many scientists and government officials worry about the risks of massive climate-control contraptions.
Mr Updike's technical digressions as computers progress from clunky contraptions to slender laptops are more fascinating than Owen's peccadilloes though one senses that his research of both has been thorough.
The inspiration for the contraption, about the size & shape of a cigarette-vending machine, came to him when, as a research psychologist in the Air Forces Air Research & Development Command, he drew up tests to measure the proficiency of personnel who had been trained to work with intricate electronic equipment.
The inspiration for the trim little contraption, about the size & shape of a cigarette-vending machine, came to him when, as a research psychologist in the Air Force's Air Research & Development Command, he drew up tests to measure the proficiency of personnel who had been trained to work with intricate electronic equipment.
The first product of his research was a simple, technological solution designed to teach wearers how to touch piano keys: a servo motor-enabled contraption that strapped to the wrist and manipulated one finger with a lever.
