To discuss: In an optional session of a Northwestern course on human sexuality, a man brought a woman to climax, on stage, using a contraption called a "fucksaw".
It is from frames like these that Mr. Duchac gets Cobble Hill Honey, using a contraption that extracts it by centrifugal force.
California-based avocado distributor Calavo uses a contraption called ProRipe VIP that measures how ripe the fruits is by "listening" to it.
A prison officer describes in fetishist detail how he intends to put a condemned man to death, using a contraption which will carve the victim's judgment on his naked back as he dies by slow degrees.
Instead, NASA hopes to deposit it on Mars using a contraption it has dubbed a skycrane.As with the other rovers, Curiosity's mother ship will rely on heat shields and air-resistance, and then on a parachute, to slow its arrival.
The "seawater" that the restaurant serves with its single oyster (poured over dry ice, so that the aroma, as well as smoke, enrobes the table), is distilled from algae using a contraption that Mr. Atxa and his in-house scientist have devised.
Takoyaki ($4.75 for six) is the faster of the two dishes, and it's fascinating to watch the chef as he uses a contraption resembling an electric sifter to pour batter onto a griddle that looks like a metallic egg carton.
Using a wheeled contraption equipped with a mirror and a Fresnel lens, he burned an arcing, 366-foot line in the dried, cracked surface, a process that lasted from dawn to dusk.
In Italy, the meat would next be hand cut, but Mr. Bertolli uses a German contraption consisting of a spinning bowl with a rotary knife whirling vertically inside it.
