And his standard piece, "Caught" (1982), is a fail-safe contraption, making use of a strobe light so that a dancer (on Tuesday, a blond Adonis named Eric Bourne) appears to walk on air and fly.
Developing countries might look towards this $2 contraption to help safe lives.
She said the new ring was safer than his old one, a makeshift contraption with boards and carpet padding.
Trevor Bayliss (see My Secret Life, p7), a former professional swimmer, stuntman and pool salesman, devised the contraption after being horrified by reports from Africa that safe-sex education wasn't getting through.
Cryochrome, designed by James Peterson of Arts + Contraptions, was a creative refugee for festival-goers seeking a safe break from the heat.
How can we keep ourselves safe in a world in which we will be surrounded by autonomous steel contraptions that may someday be as smart as us, or even smarter?
Well, I think he should play it safe and look how we all expect scientists to look: crazy-haired and with some kind of scientific contraption on his head, like the most brilliant scientist in all history, Dr Emmett Brown.
"It was big enough to fit a small family," Ms. Troyer recalls of their contraption, which the couple invented in 1999 to accept delivery of large packages and to keep the parcels safe and dry, no matter how long homeowners were away.
I think it's safe to say that the John's Phone is the exact opposite of the iPhone/Blackberry Twitter-booking web browsing contraptions that the kids are using these days.
The contraption fools Mother Nature.
It was a festive contraption.
