This cordless contraption allows you to buff and wax your car, truck or yacht in 30 minutes flat.
This genius little contraption allows you to have a travel version of your favorite fragrances, whether you're trying to conform to the airport security's 3 fluid ounces rules, or you just want a small travel version in your purse or gym bag.
Mr. Yuan and Angelababy's practice sessions are chaste metaphors for seduction, while the flying contraption allows for swooping footage of aerial attacks on armored marauders.
Take the Wacom Bamboo tablet, a contraption that allows you to enter pictures into your computer by drawing them on an electronic writing pad (Wacom.com; $79).
Pilates is booming (12 million people in the world do it, including Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Giggs), and Power Plate – a contraption that allows you to, painfully, accelerate the effect of crunches – is increasingly popular too.
But, inspired by the two-wheeled contraption that allows his crippled German shepherd to walk again (as one tear-jerking home video demonstrates), he takes a chance in the end.
Looking further afield, both in distance and eccentricity, the Malaysian entries include an invention to make cows more conspicuous at night and a complex gadget that finds the end of a roll of adhesive tape, while Adam Ben-Drof of New Zealand offers a contraption that allows bored or lonely goldfish "to roam freely on land" inside a tank with wheels.
From shoes complete with GPS programming to find your way home, to a nifty contraption that allows you to shake hands without getting all sweaty, Wilcox's everyday innovations are as unassuming as they are brilliant.
Nearly one year ago, we featured architectural designer Jisoo Han's navigational costume The Situationist Device, a mind-boggling wearable contraption that allows you to see behind you while walking facing forward.
