The iFlyPad ($30, available in late July) is a small contraption, about three inches across, in white or black, with powerful suction cups on both sides.
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.
These were not small contraptions.
Hey, I'm usually up for amazing, so I let Mr. Afshar slide a small plastic contraption around my neck.
He would put a hungry cat in what he called a puzzle box — a small, cagelike contraption that could be opened by the press of a lever or a bar — and place a dish of food outside the box.
PrecisionHawk in Indiana, for instance, has designed a small drone-like contraption that can map surface water, calculate drainage times and assess plant health from above individual fields.
Reprints Related topics Communications Asia East Asia JapanThe system is cheap: shops need only to buy a small calculator-size contraption costing roughly $200, or one-tenth of the cost of a debit-card machine.
MINNEAPOLIS--Physicists are marveling over a small, fairly simple contraption of wires and copper rings that can reverse the magnetic field in microwaves, seemingly thumbing its nose at a venerated standard of high school physics.
The small, T-shaped contraption is inserted into the uterus by a trained health care provider to prevent pregnancy by keeping sperm from joining an egg.
Put the crayon in the smaller saucepan, then place the contraption over medium heat and let the crayon melt.
