But a mystery remained: What was this contraption used for?
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Just hold onto this quirky contraption and let 'er rip.
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He's not about to bet someone's life on this contraption.
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Pressman: I would only add: You don't need a contraption.
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The minute one falls, the whole contraption starts to go.
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This contraption used in the Apollo missions wasn't much better.
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Yet somehow, I still had hope for this new Colgate contraption.
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He uses the contraption to boil water, cook and generate heat.
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Their $130 footwear contraption is called Turbo Jetts (with two T's).
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They devised this contraption to try and keep the animals inside.
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It worked like this: There was a contraption with three holes.
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Would I use such a contraption to cook my camping meals?
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Cops say the employee opened the package and discovered the contraption.
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He was last seen crying while he built some metal contraption.
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A blue ring on the contraption glowed, luring me toward it.
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At first, I was confused at what this gray contraption was.
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On leaving Salomon, Bloomberg found people to design such a contraption.
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This particular contraption was among the first she purchased with Kiyanna.
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It was as large a contraption as I had ever seen.
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My tiny dog sometimes stares at the large contraption in senile bewilderment.
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Well, the company just dropped a new video starring the canine contraption.
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This rather ingenious contraption allowed for....filming in living color without distortion.
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Japanese telecom giant Softbank is selling this contraption for around $100 (£75).
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The contraption is an Antminer S9, sold by Bitmain, a Chinese firm.
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His drone shoots nets at its competitors with a cannon-like contraption.
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The Ocean Cleanup also said its contraption would carry the Dutch flag.
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I was this half-Chinese-American boy riding on a weird contraption.
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The sum exceeds the parts: an airy, hushed, ineffably lovely sonic contraption.
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But a lot of thought went into this rather haphazard-looking contraption.
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The contraption tilts, rotates, and is durable enough to withstand demanding conditions.
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It has this fun self-service contraption similar to a vending machine.
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Nobody knows where it came from, or what the contraption is for.
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A face-saving legal contraption is possible, but that is a different story.
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Gibbs and his team created a mechanical contraption that smashed plates over itself.
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Is it worth wearing an expensive, diaper-looking contraption every night to bed?
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The Trump campaign has shown what a rickety contraption the GOP coalition is.
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Watch the video as a tech sneaks behind her to unhook the contraption.
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I was also perturbed and beguiled by this contraption that dispensed Royal Paper.
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We'll just strap on the latest contraption to our legs and jog there.
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Maybe in the future, some version of Mr. Musk's contraption could be useful.
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The polished contraption operates in a gray zone between scientific education and art.
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In high school, her friends kept asking what the contraption in her shower was.
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An Imgur user named reanimatedus posted this video of the new contraption in action.
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Several times the awkward contraption tumbled over when she was getting in or out.
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"We jury-rigged this little contraption with dry ice in our car," Schwartz explains.
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His contraption made newspapers around the world, and people wrote him seeking his services.
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The contraption, known as a rompong, was about 75 miles away from the coast.
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Well, at least when they figure out that the contraption is used for chores.
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Nothing indicating a motive, or a claim of responsibility was left with the contraption.
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It's the spinning contraption that you see on the top of Google's driverless cars.
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Muniz gave the contraption to Dr. Redmond Burke, director of cardiovascular surgery at Nicklaus.
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This morning I sucked boogers out of my daughter's nose with a gross contraption.
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Deception-as-performance, however, is not just finger dexterity or a cleverly designed contraption.
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After the show, the director took me backstage and drowned me in a contraption.
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Instead, Boruah, 35, uses his comical contraption to strike up conversations with curious onlookers.
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I should explain that the altarpiece is not only a painting but a contraption.
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Have you come up with a name for the contraption that you're in yet?
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Fantastic Contraption put me in on a floating, green platform under bright blue sky.
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Riis eyed his parking spot nervously as he adjusted the straps of the contraption.
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This isn't the first time a part-bike, part-washing machine contraption has surfaced.
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Rating The camera pulls back in a wide shot, taking in a strange contraption.
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Living with depression and, at times, mild anxiety, means that I'm way more comfortable if I am entirely in control of my surroundings, as opposed to being influenced by any other kind of contraption — even if said contraption relies on my own exertion.
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The contraption looks sort of like an MRI machine topped with a nest of wires.
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The contraption reads the cube, solves it, and then slams the thing around in seconds.
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I had to secure my foot under the contraption to try to hold myself down.
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Not sure what this contraption does but it looks like I'm going for a ride!
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Foes nicknamed Mr Costa's experiment the geringonça ("contraption"), and gave it six months at most.
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The sole switch on the side of the contraption offers three different levels of intensity.
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The contraption ends by showering the family in colored confetti, revealing their baby's gender. 6.
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Fantastic Contraption is the direct successor to a 2D physics game of the same name.
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With my mother's free hand in mine, I watched while she worked the mysterious contraption.
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I imagine smoke billowing from the overtaxed wires before the whole contraption bursts into flames.
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An attempt to bring in food via a window rope-and-pulley contraption proved unsuccessful.
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Tetsu's burgers are cooked in a heated metal contraption with spikes that pierce the meat.
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Any time you saw Valkyrie riding on the pegasus, she really was on a contraption.
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Some contraption-minded scripts would have been happy to argue that life is a game.
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In his video, the contraption looks like a discreet AC unit sitting in the corner.
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Controls are a combination of leaning the contraption for movement, and a joystick for orientation control.
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Studying a suite of spines could allow engineers to develop the ideal stabby-and-latchy contraption.
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I would get on the subway, a clean, almost noiseless contraption that hummed you to places.
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So forget that over-the-top $300-contraption that's being marketed as the ultimate baby item.
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Conservatives dubbed his pact with radicals and communists the geringonça, a term for an improbable contraption.
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The device is somewhere between a giant Chinese finger trap and some sort of retrofuturistic contraption.
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Enter the Neck Hammock, a quirky — but effective — contraption that can alleviate neck pain in minutes.
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Just unfold the contraption, stick it atop your normal desk, and you can work without hunching.
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The Vive will come bundled with two games: Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives and Fantastic Contraption.
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When I was six, they bought us the nifty contraption board game known as Mouse Trap.
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Not only were germs invisible, you had to use this strange contraption to even see them.
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Dolls can have a heartbeat module or contraption that makes them breathe when you touch them.
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Underneath the Lapdog is memory foam, to cushion and stabilize the weight of this monstrous contraption.
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KAALINK is a contraption retrofitted to the exhaust pipe of vehicles to capture the outgoing pollutants.
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The apartment is spacious, bright, and comes with a contraption to hang all your ballgowns on.
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No. But it's certainly a noteworthy coincidence that this very large, elaborate contraption is surfacing again.
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So up it went, an ugly contraption he bought on Amazon and had shipped to us.
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" A metal contraption was attached to his spine, so he was now "half-man, half-machine.
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Hot, Hot, Instant Pot The internet is buzzing hard over this contraption, and for good reason.
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When you think of dog crates, you probably picture a rectangular contraption comprised of metal wire.
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They put weights under the contraption to lift it a few more inches into the air.
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Delgado then strapped a contraption onto my shoes that mimicked the sensation of walking on ice.
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"I saw this grill in Argentina," he said of the wood-fueled contraption in his open kitchen.
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Researchers have made a giant egg-like contraption to recreate what it sounds like in the womb.
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Sitting causes the muscle to choke the rectum, turning your insides into a malfunctioning Rube Goldberg contraption.
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The contraption consists of a long telescopic pipe with a pan-tilt camera affixed at the front.
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It's a contraption made of rails, motors, and 3D-printed parts, and runs on open-source code.
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Businesses offered drones, zeppelins, tethered balloons and a floating contraption tied to a truck with a rope.
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That should've been the tagline for this contraption that we all still know and love today. 5.
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Quinn enacts a "purity test" on Jeremy, which involves drilling his skull open with an awful contraption.
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The library of about 50 titles includes popular hits like Fantastic Contraption, TheBlu, Everest VR and others.
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Predictably, Washington has responded with dismay and a determination to break up the European sanctions-busting contraption.
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At the end of the day, the whole contraption folds up and fits neatly into a backpack.
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Online queries have focused on why so complex a contraption as an inverter/converter is needed anyway.
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Though the contraption saved roughly $21948,226.01 in cook's wages each month, it also cost $1,500 to lease.
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The camera sits in a contraption that does its best to keep the camera steady during flight.
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Like other handheld gimbals, the Karma Grip mounts the camera on top of a 3-axis contraption.
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From there, Merrill's contraption analyzes the flight numbers to determine the plane's route, using Virtual Radar Service.
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A contraption recently posted by a parent to Imgur has the Internet equal parts impressed and concerned.
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Now, he's strapped the same contraption onto over four times the number of rockets, and it's beautiful.
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Even without recourse to wearable tech or robotic contraption, she had followed the "Manus x Machina" brief.
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When he presented the contraption to Ms. Alvarez, they tested it out and found that it worked.
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So Skobov brought the chunky contraption home for free, minus one small scratch in his new car.
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Still, the current system is unstable, a Rube Goldberg contraption ready to collapse from its own complexity.
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Just because it's 2016 doesn't mean you can't have a terrifying medieval contraption attached to your vagina.
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First introduced in the 1920s, the contraption was advertised as a cheaper, more sanitary alternative to towels.
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Their marriage has become a working contraption, parts moving side by side to produce one happy result.
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Some are challenging the use of snare traps, a contraption that they describe as cruel and painful.
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They were killed when the title contraption malfunctioned, sending them hurtling through the air to their doom.
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The blades were so dull, I couldn't imagine how anyone could slice a potato with this contraption.
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For example, at 22A, the clue is "[Circled letters]-filled contraption," and the answer is WEATHER BALLOON.
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A transgender boy had a painful infection from the contraption he was using to bind his breasts.
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But the utility sector is not a market economy; it's a quasi-socialist, semi-monopolistic Rube Goldberg contraption.
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New military tech was showcased at the annual Bastille Day parade in Paris, including the aforementioned flying contraption.
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When the printing is done, a second contraption slides out an envelope ready for your beautiful, new card.
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Critics wondered whether ordinary music fans would fork out $22015 (about $28 today) for such a strange contraption.
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It's a little disappointing that occasionally there's some human intervention required to keep this Rube Goldberg contraption running.
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Although the contraption looks a bit intimidating at a first glance, Kourtney wasn't affected by it at all.
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Here's the first: This contraption is called "Dawson's Sympathetic Diagnoser," and Rolo was actually involved in its creation.
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Yet over two years later the contraption is grinding along and the sky has failed to fall in.
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This is the kind of talk that accompanies just about every new contraption that emerges from Silicon Valley.
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But thanks to a new kitchen contraption, you can officially make that personal-pizza-oven dream a reality.
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First, McDonald's itself acknowledges that this frork contraption is "solving a problem" that is not really a problem.
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Reddit user stellarstaer posted this video of a girl trying out her egg drop contraption with her family.
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He created the hoverbike, a seatless, brake-less contraption powered by two motorized propellers in place of wheels.
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Their supplies cleared customs, after being held up for months, and they were able to finish their contraption.
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Silly as it may seem, constructing the contraption required an impressive amount of engineering and digital know-how.
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The cardboard contraption looks so much like a real instrument that it's easy to treat it like one.
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My guests were delighted by the Penelope contraption, and plopped down on the bed to test its mettle.
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Researchers are using an open-air contraption to measure the methane in the cow's breath as they eat.
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Don't try to build a contraption that can take the place of a human on the factory floor.
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Instead, he was accompanied by a man who held a homemade contraption of tubes, light bulbs, and copper.
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Her three-flavour machine—a shiny, retro-looking contraption—houses strawberry, orange and mango, and neutral flavoured slush.
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People were immediately fascinated by the fish contraption, and they've quickly capitalized on the bizarre flying-fish machine.
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"All they had was a sweatshirt-blanket contraption with a hood; I thought they were crazy," Corcoran said.
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The filmmaker had developed his own, superior virtual reality camera, a hulking, custom-machined contraption with 16 GoPros.
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The contraption is simple to use, said sophomore Jonah Hoffman, one of the students on the Owensville team.
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You know the kitchen contraption that's used to drain scalding hot water out of a pot of cooked food?
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On March 25, 1925, John Logie Baird set up an unusual contraption in the Selfridges department store in London.
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Hendrick's Gin has this giant steampunk-y garnish-making contraption powered by a guy bicycling on top of it.
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He proceeds to demonstrate the contraption, a gas-powered machine with some insane spinning knives and a chainsaw blade.
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For the record, that contraption is actually a friend of mine, and, thanks for asking, she's doing really well.
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Thanks to an ingenious contraption on Kickstarter, sauces can be safely stowed and shared without the fear of spilling.
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But the HTC Vive isn't launching with games like that (beyond the singular, but still pretty spare, Fantastic Contraption).
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But Guichet didn't just build some Rube Goldberg-type contraption to simply press the 'snooze button' on his smartphone.
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The US electricity sector, for instance, is a Rube Goldberg contraption of overlapping jurisdictions, regulated monopolies, and quasi-markets.
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It'll also have Bluetooth support for smartphone integration and come with two free game: Job Simulator and Fantastic Contraption.
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Slip into the R70i Age Suit, a robotic contraption complete with "augmented reality" goggles, and suddenly you are 85.
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He talked this week about potentially going without the contraption on his left leg against the Rams (7-0).
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Using a huge contraption called the Bombe, they mimicked the operations of the Enigma machine to break its codes.
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The things I did in Fantastic Contraption felt like they could be the beginning of an equally significant change.
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It doesn't have the four-dimensional self-revelation of "Slave Play," or its sense of itself as a contraption.
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These days, though, home cooks are switching out the ancient contraption for its quieter descendant: the electric Instant Pot.
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Repeatedly hoisted up in a bucket-like contraption by her impassive crew, she smoothly changes get-up and gender.
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Indeed, such a contraption would be perfect for Titan, with its sprawling methane seas, flowing rivers, and complex topography.
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Finally, they sent it down to the Linotype—the old racketing, reeking contraption for setting type from molten lead.
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Rather than imbue a manufactured box with mystery, he turns our most evocative national metaphor into a mechanical contraption.
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The nearly 12,000-pound crystal contraption now includes more than 32,000 lights that emit billions of kaleidoscopic color patterns.
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When he was in first grade, he created Streetubez, a blue tarp contraption skateboarders can use to simulate a wave.
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A police spokesperson said via Twitter the contraption was an example of "how not to tow your boat this summer."
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Among the activities was a boat journey that found both of them riding a bike contraption to propel the vessels.
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If you don't remember this fun little gadget, it was a nifty contraption you looped around one of your ankles.
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With a careful leap, you can enter the space between the walls, and see how the mansion-sized contraption operates.
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The central section of this fragmentary, visually fleeting composition evokes a boxy, skeletal contraption above a churning patch of blue.
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You slot the goggles into the cardboard contraption and then use it pretty much like you would a normal camera.
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At our show in Philadelphia this Saturday, the contraption Taylor rides during "Delicate" — it's like a gold braided basket — malfunctioned.
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More specifically, I started playing Fantastic Contraption—a game that lets you build crazy machines using drag-and-drop tools.
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To use the contraption, simply clip it to the edge of your blanket and place the strap under your mattress.
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Looking at the contraption, it looks as though a strand of DNA was wrapped around the tail of the sperm.
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It starts off with a plunger-hairbrush hybrid contraption that must be used for plunging and then scrubbing the bowl.
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"An assistant was flown to my hotel, with a script in a locked contraption," Nyong'o recently told The Hollywood Reporter.
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There's presumably a Switch on the inside of this contraption since we can see what looks like live Arms gameplay.
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He called the model a "Rube Goldberg" contraption, invoking the wacky contraptions that Rube Goldberg invented to do common tasks.
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With one fell swoop, your circle of doughy, carb-laden goodness falls victim to the sharp blades of this contraption.
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Moving its arms in a disturbingly lifelike way, the bearded contraption croaked out oracular utterances about the end of mankind.
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Some 126,285 pieces of K'NEX went into this custom ball contraption that spans over 900 feet from start to finish.
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The jazz violinist and mandolinist Aaron Weinstein is an entertainer of almost as many parts as a Rube Goldberg contraption.
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" He roughly positioned the boy in front of his new apparatus, a square contraption made of metal and glass. "O.
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Using a Japanese cold-brew drip contraption, they infuse the drink with coffee, adding a dimension of earth-driven bitterness.
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We estimated that the dietary contraption clocked in at over 3,43 calories, and he finished the thing within five minutes.
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To get them to the perfect shell shape, the chicken is fried inside a contraption that holds it in place.
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"That's so dope," remarks Jaden as he takes a video of the contraption that fills JUST's almost completely renewable bottle.
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"You chose your camera over me," she says later, after Denham's contraption has been smashed in an encounter with Kong.
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The bunk-king contraption, with a metal-mesh railing for safety, resembled nothing so much as an oversize hamster cage.
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Phys Ed Men reduced the energy cost of their running by about 8 percent when they wore the new contraption.
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Then an unusual contraption creeps down the street: a tow truck outfitted with cameras and light reflectors, tugging a sedan.
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It's just a slipshod contraption of gags (not jokes, you understand) held together by the audience's will to be entertained.
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A Rube Goldberg machine is a machine or contraption that uses a very complex manner to accomplish a simple task.
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Merryman -- who along with two other men invented the little contraption that changed computing forever -- has died at age 86.
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Cohan repeatedly states that Wall Street is a marvelous contraption for allocating capital to the productive parts of the economy.
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In the video, Uhas shows off the calculations, ingredients, and contraption he designed to make the biggest foam explosion possible.
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Never mind, I unplug the whole contraption and hide it in a hard-to-reach drawer near the medicine cabinet.
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In 1959, Princeton science historian Derek J. de Solla Price provided the most thorough scientific analysis of the contraption to date.
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In a lab at Stanford, engineers have set up a weird contraption, hiding a toy bunny behind a T-shaped wall.
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The player-controlled Isaac is strapped into some ghastly dystopian contraption, his bulbous, juicy, quivering eyeballs darting around in a panic.
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The original idea for such a contraption goes back to James Franson, a physicist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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That makes the challenge almost impossible, but unexpectedly it turned out to be an effective approach for this ball-juggling contraption.
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For those bold and confident enough to stick their junk in this contraption, Fleshlight Launch costs $199 and is available now.
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In Enfield, we visited the Enfield Cotton Gin, a marvel and at the same time, a lint-covered, gerry-rigged contraption.
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The contraption even launches the plane at the end of the assembly line, sending it off on its maiden test flight.
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The Vive is on sale now for $799 and ships with download codes for Fantastic Contraption, Job Simulator and Tilt Brush.
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No. Watch as the useless machine king of YouTube builds and shows off a lunch-serving contraption in the video above.
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But that won't stop you from rooting for this contraption made of office supplies and other stuff found around someone's desk.
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He started building rockets, then attempted to build a bottle-rocket-powered contraption that would launch a friend into the air.
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When the sitter brought Roxy back, he excitedly showed them a heavy wood-and-metal contraption that simulated a dog sled.
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I hoped for a more involved con, a Rube Goldberg contraption of the sort that sprang Huell Babineaux in Episode 8.
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Mr. Callicrate has the luxury of raising cattle the way he does because he invented a contraption to castrate bulls humanely.
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It was Mr. Hall's idea that the contraption was both bed and chair, the only piece of furniture you'd ever need.
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Redditor Samurio noticed the similarities and uploaded screenshots to the /r/GameofThrones subreddit comparing the Oldtown contraption to the title sequence.
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I had a guy on top of me in a green suit holding a large contraption, which looked like a wheelbarrow.
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Gaetz took heat for apparently clowning people on the House floor late last week by wearing a contraption over his face.
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LAS VEGAS — The first lesson of the day concerned the spray gun — a powerful, deafening contraption filled with tinted cocoa butter.
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What befell them Wednesday was a Rube Goldberg contraption of woe, one stroke of bad luck, or poor play, after another.
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Mr. Pasquale, for once ideally cast, fully inhabits Scott's contraption of a personality, easygoing for about an inch and chaotic underneath.
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As her fingers passed the orange shuttle back and forth through the delicate cotton threads, the creaky contraption sprang to life.
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Others earned millions selling pieces to him, in exchange for providing the most essential spring in Aristophil's moneymaking contraption: generous appraisals.
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But the writing — by the director Bong Joon Ho and Jin Won Han — knows that being a great contraption isn't enough.
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The scooter is also touted as foldable — but it's not the most intuitive method to get the contraption snugly in place.
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During one of my interviews with Reynolds, I asked about an odd-looking contraption in the corner of her hotel room.
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Lyndra's CEO, Patricia Hurter, says the company is unlikely to start human testing of its contraceptive contraption until sometime in 2021.
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I'm still settling back in to a normal body that doesn't have a weird plastic contraption in there fouling everything up.
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I was worried it would be a messy endeavor, negating the conveniences of the sprayer, but cleaning the contraption is mostly effortless.
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As the name suggests, this kitty contraption features two floors of cardboard scratchers designed to look like a dilapidated, ghost-ridden manor.
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Considering the power this is going to use, you'll want to keep your contraption close to a power outlet and plugged in.
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He had some sort of contraption, a black mask and shoulderpads fused with pipes and spikes, which he'd wear to the ring.
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The second thing I noticed in Callander's studio was a contraption that he had set up; it resembled a mobile gone haywire.
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No SDR, or any other financial contraption, can beat the liquidity and the formidable global banking infrastructure offered by the U.S. dollar.
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His pint-sized contraption inspired further breakthroughs in nanotechnology, including a molecular elevator, a molecular muscle, and a molecule-based computer chip.
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At the time, the school said it reacted with caution because the contraption had wires and could have been an explosive device.
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Volunteers at a wildlife rescue shelter in Victoria, Australia, have built a contraption that serves dinner for ten baby roos at once.
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Lidar — the contraption on top of self-driving test vehicles that uses lasers to "see" — costs a ton of money: around $85,000.
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For the sophisticated drinker Be beer-belly-positive with this attachable contraption, which allows you to sneakily drink all kinds of booze.
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This year, the Congress received over 13,000 attendees, and has become a whirling, intertwined contraption of various home-made networks and infrastructures.
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At the time, the school said it reacted with caution because the contraption, with wires visible, could have been an explosive device.
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Ellis told Refinery29 he was Tindering with a fidget spinner in his mouth when he invented the contraption to quell his boredom.
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There's also the 62-year-old man who had to deal with a "penile crushing injury" following a homemade contraption gone wrong.
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A 69-year-old retired airplane pilot named Peter Browne has created the most lovable mechanical contraption this side of Short Circuit.
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A Dutch environmentalist named Boyan Slat has created a contraption that looks almost too simple, considering the job it has to accomplish.
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The contraption is much like a normal coffee brewer, except that it grinds fresh coffee beans before filtering them into the pot.
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An eerie science-fiction soundtrack plays as fake fog envelops a contraption in the center ring that slowly spins like a satellite.
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The Ocean Cleanup said its contraption was considered a ship under Dutch law, but unnamed vessels are not part of international regulations.
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Last year she made an Oculus Rift–connected contraption that dispenses whiffs of banana and strawberry while the user plays Fruit Ninja.
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Woods' stencil illustrations pair each animal with a circus contraption, at times literally stringing one creature to the next with a tightwire.
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And second, for being a full-grown human misery contraption who appears to hate everyone that isn't an animal or British person.
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Skobov envisions that this kind of contraption, if taken up commercially, could be used by medical staff as an enhanced monitoring system.
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Fusion experiments usually involve superheating a boiling soup of atoms known as a plasma inside a doughnut-shaped contraption called a tokamak.
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The largest loom is a vast and elaborate contraption that sprawls across two cavernous rooms and is operated with computers and cameras.
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He had seen a leaflet from the bakery advertising a contraption that scanned graphics provided by customers and put them on cakes.
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But, in the final analysis, the people who were robbed invited it by allowing Zuckerberg's incredibly intrusive infernal contraption into their lives.
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At the time, the alliance was ridiculed as a "geringonça," or "contraption," that his opponents said would fall apart in no time.
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All of them are staring at the contraption before them: a small water pump that, despite their best efforts, won't turn on.
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Their most recent find: the ship's main telegraph, a sturdy metal contraption whose retrieval was announced last week by the Irish government.
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The massive orange towers stand 16 feet tall by 8 feet wide and deliver items through a conveyor belt inside the contraption.
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Lila's soft white face began to crumple, and from its open center came a high wail as the contraption shook her body.
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A Juul looks like a trendy piece of technology, not a clunky contraption or a mock cigarette like some other e-cigarettes.
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If you're actually washing your greens like you should be, there's no better way to get them dry and this handy contraption.
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" But the story, Scott wrote, is a "busy, slapdash contraption designed above all to satisfy the imperatives of big-budget family entertainment.
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The Bed Buddy has rope handles at each end, so I can tug for more pressure as the contraption starts to cool.
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He told them he'd delivered a pizza to a group of Black men who held him down and put the contraption on him.
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This contraption, which he'd rigged using supplies from Home Depot, allowed him to photograph the shadows of dogs from a bird's-eye view.
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Here's a cool contraption to gift to those ladies, endorsed by none other than the fittest mom in all of Hollywood, Kate Hudson.
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I was worried the Biem Butter Sprayer was just another expensive kitchen contraption that wouldn't deliver on its promises of easy butter delivery.
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But luckily, Jaime just happens to have Qyburn's dragon-killing contraption handy, and sends Bronn and his two able hands to wield it.
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She lifted Yuna into the special walker, called a gait trainer and, waving toys, coaxed her to propel the contraption with her feet.
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We're dying to get our hands on Korea's blackhead-extractor contraption that sucks out dirt and — for lack of a better term — grossness.
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That all said, and while it's an utterly terrifying thing to watch, this does show some really practical uses for such a contraption.
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He developed the original contraption while working as a mover and dealing with clients who didn't want dollies rolling across new wooden floors.
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She watched as the contraption molded sand and resin and spit out a two-foot three-dimensional replica of her "H" campaign logo.
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For his latest game, Typeshift, a collaboration with Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Gage has created a contraption that would make a shrewd CMO envious.
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To heat meals, the crew used a food warmer tray, a tidy contraption with separate compartments that used conduction to heat meal packages.
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And except for the guy who came up with this contraption, I'll be the first person to fly the mind-controlled King Air.
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Moving hasn't been a problem for the healing turtle: he instantly took to the new contraption and has been rolling around the zoo.
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This time, they're filming (in slow-motion, of course) bullets shot from a contraption that attempts to recreate a WWI-era propeller plane.
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And the goose is still alive and kicking and balancing her long neck pretty well between the two sides of the killing contraption.
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For a limited time, the HTC Vive will be bundled with two free VR games: Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives and Fantastic Contraption.
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The contraption of gears, metal, plastic, and wood was built in 1930, and Moholy-Nagy hauled it along as a cumbersome travel companion.
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In fact, when Smith first showed off the contraption keeping his leg together -- some wondered if the guy would ever play football again.
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Granted, it looks like a contraption Batman might ride if he were to lose his fortune, gain 40 pounds and move to Florida.
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You're meant to strap on the 44 pounds (20kg) contraption and carry it into places that are hard to reach on four wheels.
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The contraption created for "Australia Day," the nation's controversial public holiday that's actually a day of mourning for Indigenous Australians and their allies.
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The 64-foot-long plane was revealed at the Municipal Airport but there was no plan to fly the nearly one-ton contraption.
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People could tell which woodwind player was actually creating that eerie effect, or which newfangled contraption the percussionist was busily banging away on.
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"It's a thrill I can't get doing anything else," Mr. Madere, who flew his first remote-controlled contraption when he was 6, said.
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Rob's French isn't quite good enough to convey to the Parisian pharmacists that they are looking for a contraption to pump breast milk.
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The whole contraption was encased in a cast-iron housing machined by John Feltner, a father of three who'd just recovered from bankruptcy.
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When you hear Mozart in a James Bond film, chances are the villain is using his trusty feed-foes-to-the-sharks contraption.
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Juicero, the maker of the $700 juicer, and went out of business after it was exposed to be an expensive bag-squeezing contraption.
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It felt like a moment from some steampunk novel: a Victorian contraption conjuring a world through natural magic of a distinctly digital kind.
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The Switch screen seemed smaller than ever, and my instinct was to grip the controllers tightly for fear of dropping the whole contraption.
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This alien-looking contraption is referred to as a "stratollite," a portmanteau of "stratospheric satellite," operated by a company called World View Enterprises.
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After each contraption was moved a safe distance from the shed that housed the furnace, the scientists initiated a countdown on their computers.
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The Abdominizer was a newfangled piece of exercise equipment, an electric blue contraption shaped like a rib cage that promised rock hard abs.
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Then, run the PCILeech on a laptop connected to the contraption, reboot the Mac, and read the Mac password on the other laptop.
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Here's what comes with your $800 Vive investment: Vive headset Vive controllers (one for each hand) Vive base stations (2) Vive link box Vive earbuds 2 included games (Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives and Fantastic Contraption Here's Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives... ...and here's Fantastic Contraption in action: BONUS: VirZoom review: I got sick pedaling this virtual reality fitness bike
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They soar through the sky like a bird by flapping their arms, and the contraption responds by dipping and banking to match their movements.
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The contraption makes you look a little bit like a tractor trailer, but it reportedly doesn't hurt your back and successfully completes U-turns.
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The technology is unique (so far) in that the entire contraption—processor, optics, and battery—is contained in the visor; it is truly untethered.
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Both builds are impressive, but I don't see a crispy bacon dispenser on the vaccuum, which automatically makes this breakfast machine the superior contraption.
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Since the Labo VR headset doesn't have a head strap, you're holding the entire contraption up to your face the entire time you're playing.
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After stealing the contraption, a woman got the holiday surprise of a lifetime when a sea of glitter washed over her snowman-covered quilt.
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In a sad twist, though, he is working on some sort of contraption to search his memory for his birth mother who abandoned him.
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But his contraption was also able to power LED lights, and presumably other electronics, to make his time in the woods even more comfortable.
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The guys worked with different sizes of hardware before moving up to a giant contraption that made the small drills seem like mere toys.
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Or the hipsters flooding in are, with each overwrought coffee contraption and jam-jar cocktail, returning the city to something like its former glory.
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The awkwardly-named Vertical Walking contraption works like an elevator in that it operates in a vertical motion, but that's where the similarities end.
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A long-shot idea is an experimental contraption out of Argentina called a Fart Pack, which collects gas directly from a cow's digestive tract.
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But it may be Mortal Engines' very maximalism that makes it watchable: You're never quite sure what wild new contraption will show up next.
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One group has built a flat, origami-inspired contraption which is folded up by the growth and movement of the cells living on it.
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While Louviere dialed the knobs, Brown stood on a ladder above the contraption illuminating the water with a ring light, her camera in hand.
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Picture this: A blue ostrich egg set over a candlelit and rock-filled glass contraption with a murky-speckled liquid seeping down the sides.
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When Ole Kirk Kristiansen imported a newfangled contraption called a plastic-injection-molding machine to Denmark in 1946, people thought he'd lost his mind.
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The website for the contraption shows artists using the MacBook Selfie Stick around New York City, including in Times Square and Washington Square Park.
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Mostly gone are the days when "sex toy" strictly meant a hot pink, phallic contraption with vibrating jelly beads, particularly among high-end manufacturers.
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As tough as it may look, the contraption is no match for the family dog, Dutch, who thinks the methodology could use some work.
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And if you are wondering why the hell anyone would want such a contraption—beyond sheer novelty, of course—the short answer is functionality.
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The Bod Pod is an egg-like contraption that uses air displacement plethysmography to reckon how much blubber those who clamber inside are sporting.
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The car did indeed flip, but a piece of metal from some sort of welded contraption that was attached to the car flew off.
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Come to think of it, Insider Picks should probably test all of our clothing that we consider for review in that utterly compassionless contraption.
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The contraption, more commonly found in submarines and spy novels, makes it possible for the woman in the basement to see the street above.
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The five-foot-tall, Internet-connected contraption dispenses still or sparkling water, and still or sparkling flavored water, with hints of fruits and vegetables.
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Butter Churner, $39, available at UncommonGoodsA dab of fresh butter made with this quaint contraption brings their pancakes or toast to the next level.
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Produced by both underwear brands and jewelry-makers, this bling-meets-lingerie contraption is perplexing, considering it doesn't actually function like a normal bra.
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Related: Pendulum and Egg Dance in Artist's Curious Contraption Hear a Knife Orchestra Play "Stayin' Alive" Drop Virtual Marbles into a Projection-Mapped Maze
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In the aftermath of WWII, Japan was steeped in poverty, and according to Kageyama, people were enchanted by what they glimpsed through the contraption.
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I was scowling at her while she swung happily on the disused iron water pump in our garden, when the heavy rusty contraption fell.
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Controlling what looked like a Dr. Seuss contraption, delivering gases and medications by crank and lever, he deftly lulled her into a reversible coma.
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" Unfortunately, being "on the mend" includes a massive "hand elevating contraption" that Harris has to wear on his injured hand "for the foreseeable future.
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James Starley stars in the exhibit as the inventor who took a primitive French contraption — the velocipede — and refined it to create the bicycle.
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James Starley stars in the exhibit as the inventor who took a primitive French contraption — the velocipede — and refined it to create the bicycle.
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In this video Mr. Herscher constructs and demonstrates "Page Turner," his contraption that uses 19 steps to turn the front page of a newspaper.
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We must address these matters posthaste, before some contraption of illumination is invented that leads to this game of sunshine being played at night.
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Guests dressed in his latest collection and then dined to dripping candlelight, and an artificial-intelligence contraption attempted to make sense of it all.
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McFarland, instead of sitting in the broadcast booth, provided commentary from an odd cranelike contraption on the sideline that ESPN called the Booger Mobile.
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The models in the infomercial used it effortlessly, "abdominizing" their way to a flat stomach by doing sit-ups with the contraption for support.
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Perhaps the best example of this concept in action was a lottery-drawing contraption that resembles those found at summer festivals (matsuri) throughout Japan.
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Detachable Button Down Pants (or "DBDP") feature 1) a large denim belt, 2) a denim garter-suspender contraption, and 3) two button-up pant legs.
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It has one wheel, a few runners, and an absurdly powerful engine that propels the entire contraption across a frozen lake at breakneck speeds. Brakes?
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Stanniland was able to hunt down the burger after it returned to earth all thanks to a GPS tracking device he attached to the contraption.
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Instrumental to the conversion is Graviky Lab's own contraption, Kaalink, a device that, once placed on exhaust pipes, captures pollutants without comprising a vehicle's performance.
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System 001, as the contraption has been christened, is a hollow cylinder 600 metres long and 1.2 metres in diameter, itself made of plastic (polyethylene).
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There's this enormous Rube Goldberg contraption that is not giving many people meaningful choices; it's not creating workable solutions to middle-class, self-employed people.
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Using a hot glue gun, affix a cheap pillow to some dowels (or a clothes hanger!) and straps to create a back-pack-like contraption.
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This Rubik's Cube solver, or this hypnotic ball contraption, for example, give you an idea of just how technical some of these projects can be.
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Despite having little to no clue how this contraption functions, I had fun screwing around with it for twenty minutes—maybe you'll have better luck.
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While that little contraption won't help the bees with their human problem, being placed on the endangered species list will at least protect critical habitats.
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Russell is taking on the unusual challenge in a contraption named "Bobby" — that looks a little like a hamster wheel — in aid of Sport Relief.
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The machine they've spent the last year and a half tweaking looks nothing like the metal-coiled contraption that holds potato chips and Snickers bars.
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The new mother, who gave birth to a daughter in August, shared a funny Instagram photo of herself Monday as she struggled with the contraption.
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His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is.
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Following the onstage hanging, Southwell is virtually naked throughout, strapped to an upright contraption so that the dismemberment of her body is in plain view.
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One was a huge "trading post," a contraption that allows players on either side of a large wall to trade items through an automated chute.
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Jokitech aluminum universal headset stand — $27.99 See Details Billed as the original headphone hanger, this contraption is placed under your desk with industrial-strength adhesive.
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The cold brew makerThe OXO Good Grips Cold Brew Coffee Maker ($50) looks like a complicated contraption, but it's surprisingly easy to use and clean.
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In May, 2017, a twenty-two-year-old Dutch entrepreneur named Boyan Slat unveiled a contraption that he believed would rid the oceans of plastic.
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You go into their play space, and there's this giant wooden contraption you can tie people to and a medical station with medical supplies inside.
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As seen in the video above, the team was able reflect a 1 pound coin above the contraption when voltage is applied to the system.
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Like any good traditional hamster contraption, the critter enters a wheel and begins running, thus providing the mechanical energy needed to power the drawing machine.
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The person who picked up the contraption from Welke's home told her it was launched from Iowa on Friday with the purpose of taking photos.
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They strapped him to a contraption called a "tiger chair," shocked him with electric batons, beat him with pipes and whipped him with computer cords.
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He concluded that removing the batteries was impossible without destroying the gadget, which is a contraption of tiny circuit boards and ribbon cables soldered together.
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But there's a huge difference between a suborbital missile and the advanced contraption represented by Revell's Haunebu II toy, which never existed outside of fiction.
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Presented with New York Live Arts, the work for 12 dancers features wearable sculptures by Diana Puntar, who has also designed a Mylar-dispensing contraption.
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Whenever the contraption shuddered and bumped, I was convinced that we had become unhitched from the cable and were about to plunge to our deaths.
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In 1987, that contraption was portfolio insurance; in 2008 it was the alphabet soup of mortgage-backed securities; and in 2010 it was algorithmic trading.
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Related Artist Sneaks Urinal-Subway Seat Onto NYC Train Drop Virtual Marbles into a Projection-Mapped Maze Pendulum and Egg Dance in Artist's Curious Contraption
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Then after one last, loud blow, we suddenly cut to a sparse warehouse, where the hammer lands on a bolt attached to a strange-looking contraption.
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Maybe in a century or so, medical museums will remember this contraption as an early ancestor of the fancy, professionally manufactured rehydrators sitting in their laboratories.
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It started with old telephones, some dating back to the first half of the 20th century, including a wall contraption that once belonged to my grandmother.
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Even this season at New York Fashion Week, designers from Tibi and Prabal Gurung to Helmut Lang and Alexander Wang all showed variations of the contraption.
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Earth's outline of a universal basic income scheme could address that issue, but that's also another example of adding complexity to an already Rube Goldbergian contraption.
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Juicero got shot down hard when everyone realized they could open the startup's juice packs by hand instead of with the company's $400 "smart home" contraption.
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When he released the contraption—the world's first commercially viable automobile—he also licensed his engine to other tinkerers, who could build their cars atop it.
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Ellen DeGeneres points out jokingly that Dimitri is always being carried in a "contraption" on his dad's back and never even has to worry about walking.
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Each had its own particular function and aesthetic—take, for instance, Milton Bradley's version: a sliding box-type contraption that revealed tiny letters through a peephole.
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Post holes and a ramp with stairs on either side indicate that the contraption allowed Egyptian builders to move heavy blocks up and down steep slopes.
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WHAT better artifact to feature in an exhibition called "New York at Its Core" than a metal contraption designed to remove the pits from an apple.
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The experts recommend building a contraption out of an empty soda bottle, filling it with soapy water, and drowning the stinkbugs inside, but I am dubious.
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The set was a room-size contraption made of welded steel and Plexiglas, fitted with buzzers and keyboards and a chair that spins on a truss.
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In it, a model climbs onto the "megaformer," a juiced-up Pilates contraption with stable platforms on both ends, and a moveable platform in the middle.
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The contraption arrived without instructions, save for the box's illustration of a space-suited woman with a butterfly suspended bridge-like between her clitoris and vagina.
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Nearby, Edward Contreras wore Eric Dickerson's No. 29 on his back and a horn-sprouting contraption that said, "Los Angeles Rams 4 Life," on his head.
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As the aforementioned references indicate, almost nothing here feels even remotely original, including a closing battle that features one participant sporting a Doctor Octopus-like contraption.
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I don't mean to make it sound easy; a lot of craft went into building the contraption, and again as much into making it seem stable.
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Brandon Mintz chose a familiar contraption: The ATM Mintz is the CEO of Bitcoin Depot, an Atlanta-based company that distributes Bitcoin ATMs across the country.
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"There's a shared responsibility in the content we create," Kimberly Voll, a cognitive scientist who worked Fantastic Contraption, told the audience during her talk at GDC.
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Even the most marvelous mechanical devices can break, and it isn't long before the titular contraption of this new Manhattan show begins to sputter and smoke.
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He was wearing an odd contraption on his back, with wires and antennas protruding from its frame and with a blinking black box at its center.
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The contraption is a neat idea, Miyabara says, but it's hard to imagine how many machines it would take to pump enough oxygen into the lake.
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When it comes to eating on a plane, ignorance doesn't always lead to bliss (especially if you're trapped on a metal contraption with, like, one bathroom).
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It was an open-seated, 23-pound contraption with room for one person, powered by eight battery-powered propellers that howled as loudly as a speedboat.
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It was an open-seated, 220-pound contraption with room for one person, powered by eight battery-powered propellers that howled as loudly as a speedboat.
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The thing I couldn't get over is what benefit is really gained by going with a two-wheeled self-balancing contraption instead of just three wheels.
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He had trained tirelessly on the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle, an ungainly contraption designed to simulate how the Eagle would fly in the moon's gentle gravity.
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That whole contraption, now too big for even the giant C-5A military transport plane, will travel by ship through the Panama Canal to French Guiana.
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Their primary tool is a sampling device that looks like a contraption out of Jules Verne: a crystalline dome with plastic tubing snaking from its side.
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Many use both, while increasing numbers also now use a mooncup, a re-useable plastic tea-cup shaped contraption, which you just wash after every use.
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Inspired by the person above, this Note7 owner made a charging contraption out of a water tank and plastic wrap to keep their phone from ever overheating.
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Point being: while generous in size, a 2-quart mason jar isn't exactly the easiest contraption to pour from, mainly if you're someone who's prone to spilling.
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Boston Dynamics' contraption, on the other hand, will probably let all of its little robo-friends in so they can hang out and plot humanity's demise.[YouTube]
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Palinoia, which Fulks made in 2014, opens with a man in a suit sitting in a red-lit room with a goggle-like contraption over his eyes.
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For those who haven't seen the Wintergarten Marble Machine, it's a piano organ-sized contraption made out of birch plywood, some Lego Technic sets, and 2,000 marbles.
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But they wear a specially designed diaper-esque contraption just in case, which NASA astronaut Mike Mullane explained in detail in an entertaining interview with Men's Health.
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This unlikely contraption heralded a new habit among the nobility, who began to visit the coast not for travel or for work, but for health and fun.
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This compact contraption will be used to study the behavior of ultra-cold quantum gases in microgravity environments, and it could help scientists observe new quantum phenomenon.
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This item could be tablets you drop into a gallon of water, all the way up to a contraption you put into a pond and drink from.
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Once a week my mom, my brother, and I would walk through the automatic doors, past the produce, and down the aspirin aisle toward the wretched contraption.
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Madonna says she uses the suggestively-shaped contraption, which utilizes ultra-infrared energy created by two high-density carbon balls, to firm and lift her skin everywhere.
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This quirky contraption claims to remove 99.9 percent of germs and keep your brush dry so that it won't grow any other weird bacteria between the bristles.
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"By deciding to end the political agreement that became known as 'geringonca' (contraption), the Socialists rejected a model that has shown resistance to political turmoil," Martins said.
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AOC's reactions to testing out her disposal are pretty amusing, and to be honest ... she asks some fair questions about the benefits of the inner sink contraption.
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I was offered formula to feed my son via a tube, dropper-like contraption because I was told if he took a bottle he would never latch.
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Whether we're talking Nintendo nails, galaxy makeup, or blending foundation with yet another odd contraption, the beauty world is teeming with new approaches to just about everything.
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The result: As soon as you take off the contraption (who actually wants to wear these in public?), the body falls right back to its default posture.
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Stinson took me across a dense wall of machinery and past a giant contraption that makes cardboard boxes so that the plant doesn't have to order them.
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We're going to knock off a few "OMG that's so cool!" points for Miller's use of Red Vines in his contraption, instead of the vastly superior Twizzlers.
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While aboard the space station, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Kornienko used a Russian contraption that, through negative pressure, attempts to draw fluids back down to the legs.
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I wrote to KeyPort, a company that makes a foldable contraption that stores people's keys without clanking or clutter, and was sent a model to try out.
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On Pro Basketball TORONTO — Kyle Lowry left the Raptors' locker room late Thursday night wearing a contraption on his left hand that looked like an oven mitt.
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In her Cameos, she regularly appears perched in a striped armchair next to an enormous silk curtain contraption, filmed from across the room by an unseen handler.
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Mr. Henson revealed this when he leapt up to turn the wheel of a heavy metal gear-and-chain contraption at the side of the west window.
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Into the contraption they went, whereupon the bather could change into a swimsuit and be wheeled into the ocean to take a plunge unobserved by leering eyes.
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In the years since, it has spiraled out into a tangled paranoid contraption involving state-sponsored killings, pedophile sex rings, and even, in some cases, demonic sacrifice.
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It consists of an apple-sucking tube on a tractor-like contraption, which drives itself down an orchard row, while using computer vision to locate ripe fruit.
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The stickers on the cards will also change the core function of the cards, turning a ho-hum contraption into something very dangerous as the game moves forward.
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Taking the advice to the extreme, Jacobs invests in Nature's Platform, a contraption you can fit on top of your toilet to help you squat instead of sitting.
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So instead of relying on batteries and electricity for power, perhaps the company should consider this four-wheeled contraption which runs on a gigantic spring-powered mouse trap.
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Indeed, the titles that ship with the Vive: Fantastic Contraption, Job Simulator and Tilt Brush are fairly representative of the type of content that succeeds on the platform.
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And, boy, does he go all in with his contraption, featuring multiple cell phones to record the action, GPS, lots and lots of glitter, and even fart spray.
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Holding a tablet and giant cardboard contraption to your face can get tiring after a while, especially since there are no straps or mounts to ease the strain.
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The new mechanical contraption required its user to pull a lever that simultaneously drew a privacy curtain and unlocked a handle used to record votes with internal counters.
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The action begins in 1961, with Armstrong hurtling out away from Earth in a some sort of precarious contraption that looks more like a plane than a rocket.
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After the user selects a coffee preference in a companion app, the machine begins brewing while the ball bearing is released from the top of the wooden contraption.
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But Great Ball Contraption builders have only one goal in mind: to build as complex a machine as possible that does nothing but move small plastic balls along.
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And while the new version only includes 13, one of those bits adds Bluetooth capabilities, letting a contraption connect to a mobile app on a tablet or smartphone.
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That gam action inspired a prosthetic exoskeleton for humans: The lightweight contraption is outfitted with a spring and clutch that take the impact off the user's calf muscle.
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On a table stood what he calls a chime carousel, a tiny white contraption resembling a helicopter propeller, with washers on its two ends that spin when activated.
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I'd expected his place to be some sort of BDSM dungeon, full of latex-everything, sex swings, and a dining table doubling as some sort of torture contraption.
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Here's Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives... ...and here's Fantastic Contraption in action: Like the Oculus Rift, you'll need to have a powerful enough PC to run the Vive.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - It is not quite going back to the horse, even if the bicycle was the first contraption to replace beasts as a means of personal transport.
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Instead of carrying a separate pen, pencil, eraser (which usually comes on the back of a pencil anyway) and touchscreen stylus, this contraption put them all in one.
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The contraption is made from a small slice of a credit card, which means Hot Wing may also be the first goldfish with a built-in chip reader.
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There are also concerns the contraption may do harm as well as good, perhaps trapping minuscule but important marine life that floats on the surface of the water.
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He fitted the mechanism to his own Ford Galaxie with most of the contraption inside a black box and drove it down to Ford to show its engineers.
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Joyce is a Scout Master and enjoys participating with the Boy Scouts in the annual World Championship of Punkin Chunkin, building a contraption to fling pumpkins for distance.
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And when a bomb was left on the street in the Chelsea neighborhood last year, a local photographer saw the contraption and the bomb squad swung into action.
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Motherboard has reached out to several other, more well-known VR developers who work with Oculus including Fantastic Contraption makers Northway Games and Job Simulator makers Owlchemy Labs.
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This is not a problem with Northway Games' Fantastic Contraption, for example, because I could only move in the game by physically moving my body in the room.
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For Israel, the protests touched a nerve: The border was demarcated by a fence, not a wall — a relatively flimsy contraption designed to detect intrusion, not prevent it.
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Alex has since had the contraption removed ... and told reporters at Washington's training camp this summer that he still has hopes he can return to the field someday.
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"For predatory animals like tigers, instead of just throwing a carcass into their cage, they might have a hunting contraption that drags and twitches the meat," she explained.
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One showed a servo-motor-powered contraption that uses two butcher-knife blades to chop vegetables; watching it makes me instinctively pull my fingers back from my laptop.
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By the time the contraption reaches peak altitude about 14 miles above sea level, the helium balloon will have grown large enough to comfortably encompass a football field.
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You'll look at the screen, down at your controller, at the window, and wonder how far this sticks-and-triggers contraption would fly through it, given enough oomph.
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This latex male panty-type contraption emerged in 270 and was designed be paired with a condom to provide a protective barrier to a man's entire pelvic area.
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On Wednesday, the soccer club, based in England, found a peculiar contraption consisting of a styrofoam box, a parachute, a GoPro camera and of course the mysterious frozen burger.
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Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, co-founders of the studio Rael San Fratello, have found a way to connect people across barriers with a simple contraption: a seesaw.
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These were then stretched by an additional factory worker over a contraption that bore two model feet, as if a mannequin had been lying on its back, playing airplane.
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Eventually a bellhop and a hotel manager arrived with what they told the couple was an "air cleaner," a contraption about the size of a space heater, Knull said.
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He then posted a video of the contraption on YouTube, where it quickly went viral, bringing satisfaction and fist-pumping joy to anyone who's ever had their stuff stolen.
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Rather than quit outright (like so many of us), YouTuber WayOutWest built a big goofy contraption that fingers whole chords on a guitar at the push of a button.
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The 3.5m (11.5 ft) contraption consists of 1,450 pieces of wood, of which 180 are tuned to play notes to the song as a ball bearing rolls across them.
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Presenter Jamie Hyneman found suction cups were able to hold his weight but the noise of his contraption, which included a vacuum, was too noisy and blew his cover.
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Presenter Jamie Hyneman found suction cups were able to hold his weight but the noise of his contraption, which included a vacuum, were too noisy and blew his cover.
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HTC Vive owners have praised "Fantastic Contraption," which has you create 3-D objects in a VR world, and "Audioshield," a music game that doubles as a good workout.
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Also on the roster is a Belgian show built around a Rube Goldberg-type contraption and a silent history of Franco's Spain told via manipulated trinkets and old photographs.
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Its 20 individual joints are controlled by small pneumatic muscles—devices that contract or extend, operated by an air-filled, artificial bladder-like contraption that fills or releases air.
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Once they become pupae, researchers manually separate the males from the females through a glass sieve-like contraption in the "sex separation" room for about four hours each day.
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A lower cost sous-vide option is a sort of tubular contraption that consists of a controller, heating element, and water circulating pump and it's incredibly easy to use.
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There are no easily apparent purposes to these movements, but the hi-tech aesthetic of the contraption contradicts its seeming uselessness: there must be a purpose behind these movements.
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The Vasper manufacturer claimed that the contraption—resembling a recumbent bike with pressure- and cold-wrap sleeves for the arms and legs—could double your testosterone in two weeks.
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ECMO was initially conceived in the 27s to use on premature infants with fatally immature lungs, and like most 217s machines, the contraption took up nearly a whole room.
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In that docuseries, investigators hired a random 10-year-old boy to hit a pigskin-wig contraption with a flashlight to prove a child could have committed the murder.
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An Autonomous car can be more easily charged than filled with gas (the Rube Goldberg contraption that would be needed to autonomously fill a fuel tank is highly implausible).
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Get some ideas from Joseph Herscher of Joseph's Machines and watch him build an absurd Rube Goldberg–style contraption to feed himself lunch in his tiny New York apartment.
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The whole custom-built contraption, whose two small propellers will be steered from the ground, will also include a variety of sensors to collect data on any aerosol plume.
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But, as I soon discovered, getting any kind of charger or plug to stay in while the train rumbled about required McGyvering a contraption to hold it in place.
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A child knows that a bicycle has two wheels, that its tires are filled with air, and that you ride the contraption by pushing its pedals forward in circles.
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A study in gears and grace, the nearly seven-foot deep mash tun is the stuff steampunk dreams are made of: a contraption of cast iron, steel and bronze.
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Shaun's first big-screen vehicle, the 2015 "Shaun the Sheep Movie," was an inspired comic contraption, sending the good-hearted sheep and his flock on a big city adventure.
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This giant contraption, known to the #MAGA faithful as the Trump Unity Bridge, has traveled tens of thousands of miles to protests and rallies in the last few years.
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The warfarin-laced bait is dispensed by a contraption that works a bit like a giant Pez dispenser; only a determined pig should be able to trigger the release.
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Every year, there's one team in college football that becomes the darling of the preseason hype machine, a whirring contraption of takes and previews that includes, well, this article.
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It featured artist Matt Hope, who previously created a "Breathing Bike," a much more DIY contraption with an air cleaning system involving an IKEA trash can and fighter-pilot mask.
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Building a flying Internet drone—a contraption that can circle the stratosphere and beam wireless signals down to Earth—is an enormous undertaking, in terms of time, technology, and money.
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In 22050, Ishiguro, as an associate professor at Kyoto University, produces his first humanoid robot: a mechanical-looking contraption that moves on a wheeled platform, waving its jointed steel arms.
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Others went fully surreal, like Helena Parriott's chromatic display of materially confounding objects and Esteban Salazar's ominous yet playful glowing contraption of glass sculpture, found materials, and custom neon lights.
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The contraption had a hand grip on the inside, with inner and outer layers of conductive aluminum tape connected to an insulated wire, which fed into the current-measuring ammeter.
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Created by the Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, it features a zany plot involving a technology contest, a contraption called the Print-a-Friend and a surprise appearance by Donald Trump.
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The devices will retail for $49 and be available online and in-store throughout the U.S. Launched last fall, Square's new contraption is NFC-enabled and works with Apple Pay.
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The hanging contraption attaches to the back of any truck or RV via a standard trailer hitch and holds a pair of reclining swings that dangle from a steel frame.
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Signe bought some pink plastic on Canal Street and fashioned a contraption to hold her phone at a two-foot distance from her face; she called it a reality stick.
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Click here to view original GIFThe wobbly gear on Japanese Lego genius Akiyuky's latest Great Ball Contraption might be the most hypnotic piece of engineering you've ever laid eyes on.
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Buying a gel mask taught me that I physically need to have my eyes covered by a magical gel bead-filled contraption in order to take a moment for myself.
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Whoever owned the cat was keeping it in a cage inside the garage, police told Click2Houston, but the "rinky-dink" contraption wasn't exactly enough to hold a 350-pound tiger.
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"Home" is a small, white circle on each single-screen level of the game, and you must bring either a mechanical contraption or a grey ball to rest in it.
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Dhar pads up the second half of the film with unnecessary details like Govind's discovery of a contraption that most of us know as a drone and is pretty commonplace.
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Since pig skin is often used as a model, and even a replacement, for human skin, you can imagine the damage this contraption might do to an unsuspecting human victim.
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Based on these results, the researchers estimated that their contraption would be capable of generating approximately 1.2 millinewtons of thrust per kilowatt were they to scale up the power input.
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Len keeps her supply closet stocked with the versatile Victoria's Secret Invisible Push Up Bra, a backless silicone push-up contraption that adheres onto the boobs for that "busty" effect.
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The Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook will teach you to use Arduino for everything from robotics to home automation to social media interactions to make the ultimate DIY contraption.
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The next contraption we see is not a spacecraft but an X-ray machine, pointed at Armstrong's two-year-old daughter, Karen (Lucy Stafford), who has an inoperable brain tumor.
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Entering through a chamber lighted in fluorescent blues and oranges, you pick up a wristwatchlike contraption that you will rub against a sensor at the various exhibits, activating your experience.
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Four years later, the company is ready to ship their miraculous contraption just in time for you to ink the deal you've made with Cybereus, lord of the digital underworld.
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If making male rats horny and hungry isn't enough, the contraption also emulates the sounds of baby rats to fool female rats into thinking they're in full-on maternal mode.
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She also commissioned the building of several new instruments, including a 30-foot-tall contraption dubbed a Gravity Harp, that gave the record some of its haunting whirrs and whistles.
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Google has changed up the camera tech used in its roving fleet of Street View vehicles – the cars you sometimes see driving around with a spherical contraption atop their roofs.
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The Korean phone maker launched a Galaxy S10 into space on Thursday as a marketing stunt — but the contraption crash-landed in a Michigan couple's back garden after two days.
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A cardiologist placed 24 stickerlike electrodes onto my limbs and chest and then connected the wires to a dated-looking contraption with a screen and a keyboard on a cart.
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Las Hermanas Iglesias, live on different coasts and worked back and forth on the sculpture "Chasing Their Ponytails" (2016-18), which looks like a quirky contraption for decontextualizing everyday items.
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Not to diminish the educational value of some of these experiences, but strapping a contraption to your head still seems like a form of retreat, not a form of contact.
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Toner kicks field goals on real-life fields while an unwieldy contraption — what appears to be six GoPros welded together into a 360 degree video camera — records by his shoulder.
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"I'm trying to make it as absurd and useless as possible," Mr. Herscher said of the contraption, which will turn off the lights behind him when he leaves the room.
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Even though you can see precisely how this work was made, and all its constituent components, it still seems wondrous, even magical: call it an engineered sublime, a sublimity contraption.
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Paddington 2 is a wonderfully made movie in and of itself, and it understands that its message is best grasped when couched in an entertaining, clockwork contraption of a story.
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This weather station by La Crosse Technology doesn't feature a giant spaceship-looking contraption, but does come with a sensor to install on the outside of your house for weather readings.
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The contraption probably wouldn't win any pumpkin chunkin competitions, but it was powerful enough to sling two bundles of weed -- weighing a combined 47 pounds -- into the United States from Mexico.
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Moving about the hospital using the same system as Arkham VR, I find some x-rays of a chest, a chest with some strange circular contraption where a heart should be.
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The people who made this contraption, called the Barnacle, think you'd feel pretty OK—at least compared to how you'd feel finding one of those infernal boots clamped to the wheel.
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The robot's not exactly fast, and it's doubtful anyone is going to want this contraption sitting by their front door just so they can avoid bending over to tie their shoes.
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By the end of their performance, the singers dangled high above the crowd in an umbrella-shaped contraption as their backup dancers twirled around them and confetti fell onto the audience.
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The DOD's version of that secretes its own mucous gunk—one idea is to affix the contraption to autonomous watercraft—fine-tuned to ensnare the propellers of enemy ships and submarines.
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Will Chatham, who has worked with major news organizations, major brands and even a few rappers like Jadakiss and ASAP Rocky, described the contraption as "a helium-filled, neutral buoyancy" blimp.
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You poke at the screen, and you say "oh no," as a contraption topples forward onto its head, and then you say "oh no!" as it slides slowly off the platform.
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Some — like Job Simulator and Fantastic Contraption — are already out on Vive, and at least one — Crytek's rock-climbing game The Climb — was already released on the Rift without Touch controls.
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Modeled after Cyclops from the X-Men, this deeply unsafe contraption shoots two lines of fire out of your eyeballs for several feet, burning whatever happens to be in its path.
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A window at the back of this sleek bar frames a contraption that looks like one of the onion domes atop St. Basil's Cathedral, in Moscow, but fashioned out of copper.
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That's how laser projectors that cost thousands of dollars work, but it's also how this cheap, 3D-printed plastic contraption turns a simple laser pointer into a full-on light show.
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During the following decade, he continued to refine the system, testing his blind subjects with more and more complex tasks while trying to shrink the enormous contraption into something more manageable.
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Swedish musician and inventor Martin Molin, known as "MacGyver" among fans of his old band, Detektivbyrån (The Detective Agency), designed and composed the visionary contraption over the course of 14 months.
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They call their contraption the Spyce Kitchen, which spawned a nickname, the Spyce Boys, and, as they introduced themselves, they might have been members of a boy band taking the stage.
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The album's back cover displayed the members clustered around a bizarre contraption Jones had named the Brass Cabinet Orchestra, a modified pipe organ with about 250 horns jutting out of it.
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On one side of the room was a bulky, ungainly bellows camera on a tripod: a homemade contraption that the artists, like Victorian photographic amateurs, had built to their own specification.
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My frame allows a bit of leg movement, but it is still a mostly static, bulky contraption, which makes standing a rather tedious chore that I tend to skip too often.
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A delightful contraption tucked into a corner on the second floor is the unlikely combination of a reading desk and massage chair, elegantly enhanced with brass plating and mustard-yellow upholstery.
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McGirr's apnea was alleviated by a device known as a CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) system, a nose-nozzle contraption that makes its wearer look a little like Darth Vader unmasked.
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The contraption moves about 50,000 fish every 24 hours, and it's an efficient way to help shift salmon to the upper reaches of rivers where they lay their eggs, Bryant said.
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One points his finger at the viewer like a pistol, the other is adorned with a bizarre mouth ornament — a contraption used in dental surgery that Ms. Lawson spray-painted gold.
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Kevin compares the justice system to a "'70s-model Snapper Comet mower," a "creaky contraption" with "three basic blade settings," unable to respond to the labyrinthine hustle being unleashed against him.
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Levy was telling this story as he waited to board the Roosevelt Island Tramway—the red contraption that has moved people through the skies east of midtown since the nineteen-seventies.
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The floral arrangement behind the bicycle includes a variety of plants native to New York City, which Ms. Anzelone showed us as she was building the contraption in Brooklyn this week.
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Dubbed the "Universal Lego Sorting Machine" by its creator, Daniel West, it's a pretty neat contraption that's far more useful than any of the Lego science projects I used to make.
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He then uses a drill and a contraption with two wheels to create the simulated gravitational waves produced when the two wheels orbit one another at great speed, rippling the fabric.
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It was one of the first in-space tests of such a contraption—but in the coming years, this modular approach is likely to show up on more and more missions.
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Before passengers are even allowed to board an aircraft, they have to shed their jackets, take off their shoes, and walk through an X-ray contraption that scans their entire bodies.
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Their contraption, seen in the video above, consists of little more than an electric muscle stimulator stuffed in a backpack, the sensors, and a Samsung GearVR device accompanied by motion trackers.
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An especially deft contraption from 1978, "September" — the Earth, Wind & Fire song you have most likely heard at a wedding reception — has a chord progression like a Möbius strip, rolling endlessly forward.
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The man who intended to run from Florida to Bermuda, Haiti, Cuba and Puerto Rico in a custom-made floating contraption has been foiled by the Coast Guard for a second time.
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Adding motion into the mix, through the use of a simulator, greatly increases the realism of the experience—particularly if it can fly around a room like this amazing cable-controlled contraption.
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Helpfully, the growth in Socialist support since 2015 has come largely at the expense of the right, soothing the leftists' fear that the contraption would turn out to be their death warrant.
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Impulse Gear's Randy Nolta told me they worked with Sony to create a contraption that could fit a PlayStation Move controller and feel like a two-armed gun in the player's hands.
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So, until you head overseas to get your hands on this innovative contraption, you might as well keep popping that biotin, or opt for one-day clip-ins to get you by.
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She settles her bag into the front compartment of her cargo bike — a three-wheeled contraption built for hauling children and groceries that is something like the S.U.V. of local family transportation.
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With 18 separate rotors it might seem to be an ungainly contraption, but its makers, e-volo, a company based in Karlsruhe, Germany, claim it is more stable than a conventional helicopter.
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That might not sound all that exciting, but the contraption is specially designed so when you pop it open, it actually tastes exactly like the on-tap version — frothy microfoam and all.
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He was, as a teenager in the late 1940s, one of the first scuba divers in the Salish Sea, after ordering an early iteration of Jacques Cousteau's new contraption, the Aqua Lung.
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One impressive demo involved attaching the Tracker to a camera-like device, so the player could take different pictures at various angles using the contraption: The Vive Tracker will launch in Q2.
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The metal contraption became a sign that all of the characters, those upstairs and downstairs, will adapt to the changing world just fine — even if lady's maids become extinct in the process.
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The contraption might seem like the work of real-life Bond villain Elon Musk, or the latest invention from Boston Dynamics destined to revolt on its masters and wage war on humankind.
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Two weeks ago, Beckham made national news during a tearful sideline tirade following a Giants turnover against Washington when he swung his helmet at the contraption and it hit hit back: Ouch!
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I'm not proud of it, but if I was given the choice between playing all of Fantastic Contraption or whatever a full version of Bullet Train is, I'd probably choose the latter.
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Outside, in the courtyard near the 14 graves, stands a gallows-like contraption used for suspending prisoners by arms bound behind their backs or for dunking them in large pots of water.
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Perhaps the most arresting one was the Wingcopter 178, a German contraption with a six-foot wingspan and a tilt-rotor mechanism that can transition between vertical takeoff and fixed-wing flight.
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As in the past, customers' heads are measured with a Victorian-looking contraption called a conformateur; purchases come in a hand-cut, paper-and-card hatbox, a souvenir in and of itself.
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One of the biggest downfalls of a fully transitional sit-to-stand desk is that the higher it gets, the less stable it becomes until you're left with a uselessly wobbly contraption.
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The contraption and I were more entangled than I had ever been with my nursing babies, while my sandwiched breast was penciled and I was told repeatedly to stop breathing for pictures.
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Baraka Ferouz, a cyclist, bounces around on a fairly standard unicycle, then continues to up the ante on stranger machines: a three-wheeled contraption, then a crooked bike that appears absurdly unrideable.
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We turned our house into a milk-making laboratory and invited in consultants who showed us how to encourage our son's sucking with a strange contraption that involved tubes and a syringe.
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In another, she sensually drew a Beauty Roller, a black contraption resembling a sex toy, over her body — it was her old public-masturbation trick, but this time fantasizing about cellular rejuvenation.
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Using a contraption that costs around $300 and some open source software, a hacker could steal your MacBook password from your own laptop while it's sleeping or locked in just 30 seconds.
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The football club said that shortly after making the discovery, they received a phone call from a man, who claimed the contraption was his and that he had recently sent it to space.
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Horn of Plenty The hefty black contraption attached to the back of that gorgeous walnut horn is the RCA MI-1428B, a magnificent piece of engineering that went out of production in 1939.
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Lloyd and his colleagues have proposed a quantum RAM that uses photons, but no one has an analogous contraption for superconducting qubits or trapped ions, the technologies found in the leading quantum computers.
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In 2009 he and two colleagues invented an ingenious contraption called the Copenhagen Wheel, which essentially morphs an ordinary bicycle into a semi-autonomous robotic bike — and a hybrid alternative to the car.
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The rapper meets up with a team of expert carpenters to design and build the bed of his dreams: a two-tiered cube contraption that even the builders are worried about pulling off.
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A smaller percentage would huff something like, "I can think for myself, thanks," as though the audio guide were an Orwellian contraption designed to erase their real thoughts and replace them with propaganda.
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A 69-year-old retired airline pilot spent 1,000 hours over three months putting together this contraption that can serve runny soft-boiled eggs, make toast, offer tea, and hand over the newspaper.
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During a big drought here a few years back, he told me about a device — a contraption to make — to help keep him fed that involved putting a bucket in the root system.
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" While that particular piece of info might have some fans crying TMI, anyone who's found themselves strapped into a particularly complicated ensemble might consider the revelation of this contraption a total "Teenage Dream.
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The contraption, dubbed the Dabuccino, features clear glass for the chamber, a green mouthpiece that mimics a straw and a logo that resembles the Starbucks siren, except with pot leaves as a headdress.
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The fembot (Patricelli's name for the contraption) is serious science, though, a machine that's helping her tease apart the wild—and wildly complex—mating ritual of the sage grouse, a species under threat.
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Shockie pointed to the yellow wires that he'd clipped from the contraption in the bonnet, picking them up in a loop the way one may pick up a punished animal by the ears.
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The resulting contraption is elegant in its simplicity: it's just a 3D-printed custom mount that houses the adjustable liquid lenses and can be attached directly to the viewing area of the headset.
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A few small plastic hoses and a thermistor to measure temperature are then attached through the lid to circulate fluids through the contraption to induce the chemical reactions necessary to manufacture various medicines.
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I'll admit that having a taste of what it's like to make a devilish contraption for the public and watching them eat shit makes me reconsider my previous stance of only playing levels.
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BabyLegs, as Ms Liboiron has dubbed her contraption, is the sort of do-it-yourself kit being used by an increasing number of concerned citizens seeking to monitor the soil, water and air.
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One story features a girl who invents a flying contraption that looks like a bike with bat-like wings to save her village while another girl fights aliens seeking to destroy her city.
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And since wearing the Rift makes users less aware of the outside world, videos and photos of them donning the contraption — and taken without their knowledge — may end up on Instagram or Facebook.
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Or, if you've already rewatched it, did you catch that the orrery-looking contraption that floats above Westeros in the show credits actually made an in-show appearance in the library of Oldtown?
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Pharrell, I'm not sure what this fugly contraption that is probably worth a fortune on your wrist is, but even that won't distract me from how intimate and understatedly ornate this wedding was.
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It's co-founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was barred from entering her own labs, the labs soon shut down and the company had to pivot — hard — to a disease detecting box contraption instead.
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The first performer was Jan Damm, a man with wavy hair, a live-wire grin and a talent for the rola bola, a contraption involving a board placed atop a couple of cylinders.
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According to Elvidge, light pollution also occurs close to gas flares—a gas combustion contraption used in petroleum refineries and natural gas processing plants to get rid of gas that won't be used.
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"I would be mobbed by dozens as I was trying to leave my home for work," he said, inserting his key — a meter-long metal contraption — into the ground to open a valve.
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From the back of the truck, he pulled out a contraption that looked like a project from a middle-school science fair: the Wright brothers' airplane, rendered in hangers from the dry cleaner.
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The contraption didn't electrocute anybody or implode in splinters of flying glass, as earlier models had tended to do, and obligingly produced a diminutive version of the aurora's luminous flux, dazzling the King.
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Consider this example: I was in the break room one morning, making myself coffee with a single-serve capsule-loaded contraption, when a secretary at the law firm where I worked walked in.
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A pioneering local news operation in Los Angeles sent a newfangled contraption called a minicam to the SLA shootout in Los Angeles, and the conflagration wound up being broadcast live around the country.
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So they tested it on a mini-model of the city with a light contraption that traced which directions the shadows would move and how light would fall through the buildings&apos windows.
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This story is actually true: Photos of the wondrous contraption can be found, along with other arcane facts, in a vast train history published in 2015 by Yehuda Levanony, a retired intelligence officer.
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In 2005, the state teamed up with the Nature Conservancy and the University of Hawaii to devise a contraption—basically, a barge equipped with giant vacuum hoses—to suck algae off the seabed.
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Though ease of chop is naturally a requirement for all connoisseurs, this contraption may be a little much when you can just, you know, run it through a tea strainer like everyone else.
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He found that if he arranged them in opposition on a jointed armature—much like the muscles in a human limb—the contraption would bend with minimal effort yet hold firm in any position.
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Students from Georgia Tech built a giant Rube Goldberg contraption that's capable of reproducing many of the Harlem Globetrotter's most crowd-pleasing tricks; from spinning a ball on a finger, to simply sinking baskets.
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Rather than digging into the moral, ethical, scientific, or philosophical questions of these decisions or this contraption, the film mostly focuses on Will, who is about as curious as a bag of a sawdust.
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The toilet was a gross funnel-suction contraption, the beds were slightly more chill Passengers hibernation pods, there were real-time holographic displays of all of the astronauts' bodies, and no one wore shoes.
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Mr Charney devotes space to ephemeral pieces like Jean Tinguely's "Study for an End of the World"; an 8.2-metre-high contraption he constructed with the help of Robert Rauschenberg in the early 1960s.
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The 1,640-foot-wide telescope is called FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope), and it's almost double the size as the next biggest radio telescope, a similarly shaped contraption in Puerto Rico.
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To me, though, the best thing is that the mechanical arms that hold the phone can be rotated around so they're basically flat, so it's slightly easier to fit this contraption into a bag.
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But watching them run for hours inside a tiny plastic wheel is far more satisfying when their miniature treadmills are part of a larger contraption that sketches hamster self-portraits at the same time.
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And so, despite Mr Costa's warm words, the contraption will surely prove to be a temporary marriage of convenience; his party is already said quietly to be putting out feelers to the Social Democrats.
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Then he places a white plastic "Birdcage Coil" over my head, a contraption that looks like a birdcage with a circular mirror at the end of it so I can see the computer screen.
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Australian technology company Naturo Technologies has developed the Natavo Zero, a contraption that uses steam-driven pressure fluctuations to "turn off" the enzyme (polyphenol oxidase, to be exact) that causes avocado flesh to brown.
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On a regular longboard, a solid and flat piece of wood is fine, but on a contraption that rolls through city streets at 25 mph, you're only asking for a bumpy, hair-raising ride.
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To keep him smart and even fitter, I serve it in a multi-cupped contraption that forces him to fish the bits out with his paws, not just stick his face in the bowl.
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The garden is litter-free, at least by the time he leaves, because he picks up cigarette butts and other debris with a contraption he made, a trowel attached to a long metal arm.
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SEATTLE — Inside an office in this city's South Lake Union neighborhood, engineers in lab coats fuss over a contraption unlike the usual creations flowing from Amazon, Facebook and other technology companies with offices nearby.
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The contraption - a box of electronics supported by four independently moving legs attached to wheels - is omnidirectional, navigates over obstacles, even across water, and can be remotely controlled by farmers as it herds cattle.
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Among the weird things left on the cutting room floor inside of the actual cartridge: Evidence of an unusual flying cage contraption, along with a test level that was easy to recognize as such.
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Before racing in the men's downhill on Saturday, strapped into a contraption that resembles a fitted chair suspended atop a single ski, Arly Velasquez closed his eyes at the starting gate.
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The contraption, known as the Bubbler, allows multiple people to drink at the same time and is estimated to have saved about 85,000 plastic bottles and wax cups since 2007, according to the foundation.
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With a tire jack, a pie tin, a washing machine motor and a knife, he fashioned the world's first spiral ham slicer — a contraption that would become one of the world's great ham innovations.
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Although iFixit praises the "numerous feats of engineering" that the company pulled off with its design, it says that its complexity made the Razr the "most complicated phone-based contraption" its ever taken apart.
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You can fill up the tank and warm a few bottles before refilling again, making the contraption ideal for multiple babies because you don't have to worry about refilling the reservoir after each use.
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Figuring out the right materials and formulations to ensure the contraption sticks around exactly as long as it should and releases exactly the right amount of medicine is what Lyndra is currently working on.
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On the Carnahan quadrangle, where the encampment constructed by student protesters once stood, there was only one tent set up on Saturday morning: the kind of bougie contraption you'd see at a fancy wedding.
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Perhaps because of excess moisture, the contraption did not explode but let out a flame, seriously burning Mr. Abdulmutallab, who said he tried to get his burning pants off before passengers jumped on him.
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In the study, images from different sets were presented to 82 observers through a contraption that normalized the picture for size and other factors and asked them to compare the image to the real thing.
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This was due mainly to that rubberized wheel, which wasn't very good at moving the tape forward at a steady rate, and forever dooming Sanyo's otherwise neat-looking contraption to the dustbin of recording history.
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This fly-dunking contraption also used specialized instrumentation to measure the amount of force exerted on the fly as it was plunged into the water, and how much force was used to escape the water.
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There are also a couple of glimpses at actual attractions, including a river ride through a bioluminescent forest, and a contraption meant to give the impression of flying on one of Avatar's dinosaur-bird things.
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The beginning of the video — as in the initial cut Banksy released two days after the stunt— demonstrates how the contraption was built, but the artist doesn't explain exactly what went wrong on the day.
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And that doesn't even get into other standard practices of winemaking, such as jump-starting fermentation with commercial yeasts and reducing alcohol levels by sending the wine through a contraption called a spinning cone column.
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The final room is a short-sharp shock into the 21st century, where Arun and other workers proudly tell me each leaf is filtered six times by electronic sensors by their new laser-guided contraption.
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While on my brief tour of the facility, I happened to stop in the room while one game guide (with a vaping contraption on his left) was having trouble getting his group to move on.
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Where it breaks from the expected is in its esports format, a sprawling multi-city tour with a big contraption which teams of players interact with called the Cube, a modular room with four screens.
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Spiraling out of control, spiraling back into control, breaking down and shattering only to magically reform into a different steel contraption entirely, Mutant is the rare album you can get lost in without falling asleep.
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That tambourine effect returns in a big way in "Femenine," the key element of which is a mechanized contraption, invented by Eastman, that shook a set of sleigh bells in an endless, wintry chugga-chugga.
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She set up a procedure for testing the pups by exposing them to something they could not possibly have encountered before — a jiggly buzzing contraption of bird-scare rods, a tripod and a baby's mobile.
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The work, a record of a performance that exists primarily as a video but also as a sculptural stage contraption, is titled "Metatronia (Metatron's Cube)" (2018), and for now lives exclusively on the Hammer's website.
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The researchers tried out ideas and eventually developed a lightweight contraption involving a belt around the hips connected to metal straps butting against the thighs that are held in place by straps above the knees.
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There was a saline drip in his right arm and, at the foot of his bed, an improvised contraption, made from twine and an old one-litre plastic bottle, whose purpose I couldn't figure out.
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A.O.S. — Film: War for the Planet of the Apes Here's the short, incomplete explanation of how performance-capture works: An actor puts on a contraption that helps record the contortions of his face and body.
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Since Arthur — and I mean the character as well as the squat, vacuum-cleaner-like contraption portraying him — must be mobilized by human programming, it takes a while for him to swing into ambulatory action.
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It breezed north for 45 minutes and plummeted in the hamlet of Gonesse where frightened peasants attacked the contraption with rocks, knives and pitchforks before dragging the monster's wheezing remains through town on a horse.
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My female optometrist put that giant metal contraption on my face, leaned in close, and whispered, "You have eyelashes women would kill for," in a tone that sounded a little more threatening than she probably intended.
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While we certainly won't slam anyone for trying to get their kids to be a little more active, a contraption designed specifically to get a 3-year-old to improve their physical fitness feels rather…excessive.
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Theater staff called police, who arrived and found the printer "powered on, moving and in operation," making a contraption that was "shaped like a revolver," according to a criminal complaint written by NYPD Officer James Taylor.
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Initially, you do start by slicing it in half, but then you slice off an additional portion of the opposite end, placing the larger portion facing up (instead of down) within the juicing contraption before pressing.
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The smell of melting plastic is particularly unpleasant, so instead of putting Barbie on a two-wheeled self-balancing contraption prone to melting down, Mattel has given Barbie a hoverboard that legitimately takes to the air.
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After leaving her work consulting to the FDA, Tomes launched a company called Device Events, which offers clients a streamlined way to search FDA safety reports about every medical contraption — from tongue depressors to pace makers.
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But the Mars 2020 rover will come equipped with a sophisticated landing routine, like its predecessor Curiosity, including a tether-like contraption known as a sky crane that will lower the vehicle gently to the ground.
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Earlier this year came news that a startup called SpinLaunch was developing a system in which a catapult-like contraption could efficiently zip satellites into orbit, aiming to cut prices to less than $500,000 per launch.
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With the help of friends, he orchestrated an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine throughout his entire house, which is a contraption made up of everyday objects that are strategically organized to trigger a complex series of actions.
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Part of that involves plugging Lynch — who, it turns out, has DNA belonging to the line of Assassins — into a contraption called the Animus, which is like something from the Matrix on a giant hydraulic arm.
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As his role with the Spurs became complementary and he gave way to the team's whirling contraption of screens and cuts and corner threes, the opportunities to watch him work in the post have gradually diminished.
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Twenty minutes later he appeared at my door in painting overalls and rain boots, carrying traps, gloves, a bucket and some jangly homemade contraption that kept undulating out of his backpack even as he stood still.
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I also read in the bath, using a Victorian brass and mahogany reading contraption which swings out over the tub and allows one to turn the pages with one finger, thus reducing dampness and potential mildew.
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Neuville owned a portable watercolor paint box, a new contraption during that period, and she used it to document landscapes and people, flora and fauna, factories and mansions throughout the Eastern Seaboard and New York State.
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You may have noticed at some point that your colors, or rebuses (depending on how you're looking at this whole contraption), are pleasingly arranging themselves in a circle, like the endpoints of spokes on a wheel.
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Upon entering the black-box theater, most of the objects with which the trio of performers would soon interact were on view, although it wasn't clear what the solitary staircase or towering metal contraption would become.
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As a spiky, multivalent contraption disguised as a tossed-off miniature, an epic breakup saga disguised as a genre exercise, the Atlanta rapper's Baylor Swift, out since May, qualifies as several genre exercises folded into one.
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It's a fun contraption, but not exactly something you can leave on your front porch doling out candy while you head to bed—unless your okay with all of your candy and expensive Lego Mindstorms all disappearing.
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While it took some time to tweak all of the essential dimensions (water temp, grind size, coffee amount, draw time, basket type, etc.), I now make the most delectable coffee on earth because of this gorgeous contraption.
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Instead of having to raise his arm to tap the edge of the screen while reading in bed, a simple click of a wireless remote makes the attached contraption do all of that hard work for him.
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The Rubik's Contraption also uses a pair of PlayStation Eye cameras to analyze and calculate an efficient solution to a mixed-up Rubik's Cube before it ever makes a single move, which helps contribute to its speed.
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This includes gear like the Zephyr BioHarness 3, a contraption that looks like a mix between a bulletproof vest and a robotic parasite, and that collects vital data from its host, including heart rate and calories burned.
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Knowing there was an actual human being inside that beeping, whirring contraption somehow made the character -- and, yes, he most certainly IS a character, as others in the movies keep insisting -- seem even more companionable and inspiring.
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The spacecraft had been guiding itself, relaying its position to Mission Control's IBM mainframe—a contraption the size of a walk-in freezer, which in 1969 was what people thought of when they heard the term computer.
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Dorothy, the tornado-chasing contraption from the film, now sits in the lobby of the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma, a major center of atmospheric research into tornadoes and the home of the Storm Prediction Center.
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Headlines and half-page photos quickly filled the world's newspapers and webpages, trumpeting the Transit Elevated Bus (TEB, pictured), a magnificent-looking contraption that, it was claimed, would straddle China's streets, allowing cars to pass underneath it.
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I was actually on my way to Renault, having made unplanned stops to check out the Hennessey Venom F5 and the PAL-V Liberty flying car contraption, but the Lagonda just drew me in for another deviation.
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Annie and Robert's grandmom, played by Ms. Robinson, also succumbs to the lure of technology, giving up her knitting needles when she acquires a clattering contraption that can whip up a scarf much faster than she can.
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On the playroom floor in the family's suburban house, Jacobs lay on their back with a chair over them, imagining that this version of the Trekkian contraption would cure their unhappiness by turning them into a girl.
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Also perhaps a contraption that would descend from the ceiling and hold the book at the ideal angle and with the ideal light, while one sips tea as the pages turn when you need them to. Ideally.
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Remarkably no one was killed, despite explosions twice daily, dropped tools, accidents with winches and one terrifying time when the "bucket"—a contraption that hoisted men and gear to the mountain top—hurtled, unrestrained, back to earth.
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RYOT's chief executive and co-founder, Bryn Mooser, slid an iPhone into the slot behind the lenses, and as I pulled the contraption up to my eyes, I was transported to the banks of the Ganges River.
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For this project, Randle and his friend Arcenio combined a couch, a children's bike, a couple of wheels and a paramotor to create the stunningly hilarious and totally not street-legal contraption you see in this video.
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I hiked around and found mattress frames, tangles of rusty wire, an old oven, a sink, water tanks, an old stovetop range, a collapsed corral, metal drums, a couple of concrete pads and a large mining contraption.
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The device that was tossed into the police van was later identified as an inert contraption with a "candle, cylindrical object, electrical component and a flashing LED wrapped in a white T-shirt," officials said, according to DNAinfo.
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The top of the arch can be reached via a built-in funicular, the south side has a 550-step "Adventure Walk," and the center contains infrastructure for a bungee-esque contraption known as the "world's largest swing."
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But it's okay: Havrilesky talks thoughtfully and is generous with her time, and is as funny as I expected as she moves between her treadmill desk ("a little bit obnoxious," she says of the contraption) and her sofa.
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"I've been curious since I saw something similar on Facebook," said the farmer, as Tayzar Lin plunged into the soil a boxy contraption with a dial at the top and an alloy-tipped brass rod at the bottom.
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Because it's made of Lego, it's easy to bust into the dispenser's cash box the next time you need five bucks for a pie, and this contraption even dispenses the proper change to match the pizza's real price.
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The Japanese automaker on Monday unveiled a prototype of its next-generation field support robot, a miniature shuttle bus-shaped contraption based on its "e-Palette" ride-sharing vehicle under development, to be used at the Tokyo Games.
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Taylor Swift needs to move quickly to get from one side of the stage to another for her upcoming Reputation Stadium tour and she's doing it with the help of a super cool contraption called a rocket sled.
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The Science A.F. takes the ingredients of a classic Penicillin—honey, lemon, ginger, Scotch—to their boiling and smoking alchemical extreme, with the help of a towering flask-and-fire contraption, ostensibly to infuse the drink with blueberries.
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Who would have predicted he could stand in front of the world, his body slowed by Parkinson's syndrome, and hold a flaming torch and transfer searing fire to a contraption that would raise the fire to the caldron?
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In the late 24s, a University of Utah computer science professor named Ivan Sutherland—who had invented Sketchpad, the predecessor of the first graphic computer interface, as an MIT student—created a contraption called the Sword of Damocles.
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Osiel sanitized the liver-giblet chiller, a tublike contraption that cools chicken innards by cycling them through a near-freezing bath, then looked for a ladder, so that he could turn off the water valve above the machine.
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Lovett baking human meat pies — which, relevantly, is a plot point in "Titus" — she sets about removing the corpses' clothing and accouterments, then draining them of fluids and gases with a ludicrous contraption involving hoses and hand pumps.
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"It took us three days, working every morning and afternoon," Mr. Saed, 50, said as he and Mr. Wahab struggled to connect the well's protruding steel pipe to the rest of the contraption with a section of tubing.
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At a speed of more than 2,800 miles per hour, the inflatable decelerator—the hoop-skirt contraption—expanded to its full girth in less than a second; the drag it produced cut the vehicle's speed by around 163 percent.
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The exoskeleton-like contraption looks more like a leg brace than a chair — it straps onto the wearer's legs and butt, letting them stand and walk around normally, but providing support so they can also sit wherever they want.
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The Slick Smart Stabilizer Gimbal is a contraption specifically designed to keep your GoPro safe and secure while you pirouette, skydive, kayak, or engage in any high-octane stunts, and it's on sale in our shop for 10% off.
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Venezuelans who can afford it have imported machinery such as the Antminer S9, a shoebox-sized contraption selling for roughly $2,000 on Amazon, that sucks in cool air and electricity and spits out noise, heat and freshly mined bitcoins.
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Thousands of viewers were riveted on social media on Wednesday by a man who took it upon himself to scale the side of Trump Tower in Manhattan using a contraption made of five suction cups, a harness and ropes.
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It was an elaborate, Rube Goldberg-like contraption of more than 1,193 moving parts — cast-iron gears and gaskets and pin holders — that did away with the need for pin boys and made the game faster and more efficient.
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He coos, whistles, clucks, hoots, beep-beeps, uh-ohs and peekaboos with his small subject, who is strapped into a jerry-built contraption fashioned from a plastic chair found on eBay and an automotive seatbelt, secured to a tabletop.
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More destination VR examples: Birdly — On display at last month's Code Conference, Birdly uses a traditional VR headset, but has people lie down in a contraption that lets you fly like a bird by leaning and tilting your wings.
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There, the Stones were recording together in a large open room with a setup generally used to record classical music: a tall, three-armed contraption called a Decca tree, which uses overhead microphones to capture what a conductor hears.
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That all changed, however, one afternoon at the gym, when my trainer coerced me into doing 30 different core exercises on the Captain's Chair—a contraption with padded armrests that allow you to hang while you lift your legs.
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Standing on the floor was "Virtual Flow" (1990), a two-part sculptural contraption made of antiseptic pink ceramic tiles, with a screen-like square evoking a computer or a TV, attached to a cart covered with strange-looking growths.
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A listening device, slightly smaller than a football, rests on the sea floor of the New York Bight, the body of water that stretches between Montauk Point in Long Island and Cape May, N.J. The contraption is named Melville.
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One of the first known designs, from the 1860s, is a complicated contraption with one huge outer wheel, connected to multiple smaller inside wheels that were pedaled by a human operator who sat in the middle of it all.
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On Thursday night, traffic between Brooklyn and Queens is to begin crossing the Newtown Creek on the first of two parallel cable-stayed bridges that are replacing the deeply loathed Kosciuszko Bridge, an ungainly 78-year-old trusswork contraption.
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The initial contraption will be used for testing and aims remove about 50 tons of the garbage, but the goal is to launch 60 systems to reduce the floating garbage patch by 50 percent in the next five years.
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The "most incredible thing" that he designs and builds is an extraordinary contraption, a clock of moving figures with a different assemblage for each hour: the four seasons at the stroke of four, the nine muses at the stroke of nine.
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"[We're] excited to invite you to try out the world's first ever blockchain-enabled beer vending machine," read an email from Civic, the company behind the contraption seemingly designed to ensure that you never have to talk to another human again.
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From pump to soil moisture sensors to water switch, it has everything you need to build a contraption that can monitor your plants' moisture levels and deliver the perfect amount of water to up to four plants at a time.
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K'nex K-Force dart guns gleefully usher you into a world of pretend, and when you're done with them you don't have to find a closet to shove a giant plastic contraption into, like you would with a Nerf gun.
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The first: Try to make this "Doorbell Hack" a reality by building a contraption that plays the Stranger Things theme and informs the little munchkins to help themselves to candy on the doorstep while you blissfully stay glued to the couch.
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Click here to view original GIFGIF: Boston Dynamics (YouTube)Boston Dynamics has released a new video demonstrating one of its newest robots—a birdlike creation that gracefully moves boxes around a warehouse floor like only an avian-Segway-hybrid contraption can.
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In an attempt to remedy this problem, someone had come up with the idea of stacking six miniLabs one on top of the other and having them share one cytometer to reduce the size and cost of the resulting contraption.
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" This penchant for bespoke apparatus and a deeply physical engagement with their material later carried over to their archival films: When they began working with found footage in the early 1980s, they developed a mysterious contraption they called their "analytical camera.
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McCaskill, who was diagnosed with breast cancer this week, tweeted a picture during the Oscars that showed her in full Mad max garb, wearing chains around her neck and Tom Hardy's distinctive face grate contraption over her mouth and nose.
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Sometimes, it wouldn't be immediately apparent what joke a level would involve until I would touch the screen and a solitary ball would fall from the heavens onto the back of a contraption, sending it toppling straight off the level.
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Theoretically, the organic and electronic elements would click into a striking musical contraption, a hissing, chirping metal machine cobbled together from moving parts, spinning reassuringly around the coffee table; indeed, "Matilda" and "Fitzpleasure" from their first album exemplify this ideal.
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This complex 18th-century contraption has made me want to gaze at the night sky every bit as much as the images of the moon's dance with the sun that spilled from my social feeds during the recent eclipse, maybe more.
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Because the game was built into the console, you see—hit the power without a cartridge (or card) in place and bingo, there's Alex Kidd, swimming in the sea, riding on a boat, stuck inside some kind of helicopter contraption.
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The narrative remains roughly the same: When violent attackers murder Paul's wife and leave his daughter comatose, he buys a gun — and a contraption for the home hilariously termed "tactical furniture" — dons a hoodie and starts hunting down the perpetrators.
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I've never been so in love with video games as I was back then, with this bizarre clamshell contraption: the device everyone said would fail, but that the medium's most creative designers looked at and saw only ideas and opportunities.
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That same day, the eyewear label Moscot will open a Chelsea Market shop featuring a Tint-a-Majig, a quirky, arcade-style contraption that lets you try out custom lens-tinting options for its round ($2540) and square ($2550) frames.
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Much of the first half consists of mostly dialogue-free scenes of Agent Cooper exploring a strange metal contraption floating in outer space, with the help of one woman whose eyes are sewn shut and one who looks like Ronette Pulaski.
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At a Broadway performance last fall of "Freestyle Love Supreme," a superb hip-hop improv show co-created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, I was told to place my smartphone in a Yondr pouch, a soft contraption that resembles a beer koozie.
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A recent memoir by a CIA interrogator ("Enhanced Interrogation" by James E. Mitchell) describes how Mr Nashiri kept slipping off the contraption he was tied to, because he was too slight for the straps holding him down when he was immersed in water.
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Use A Shoulder Dolly Use the laws of physics to your advantage when it comes to lifting bulky items: A Shoulder Dolly is a brilliant contraption that helps shifts the weight of the furniture to your shoulder muscles instead of your back.
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Click here to view original GIFIf you feel inadequate about your inability to solve even a standard-sized 3x3x93 Rubik's Cube, then don't watch this video of the MultiCuber 999: a towering Lego Mindstorms contraption that can solve giant 9x9x9 Rubik's Cubes.
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The new version is certainly more stylish than the original, and though the vastness of the four propellers hanging overhead maintained an air of the ludicrous about it, most people passing by were casting admiring glances at the cute contraption before them. Pop.
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YouTube's NightHawkInLight posted a detailed explainer on how to turn an old garbage can, a ventilation fan, and a bunch of ultrasonic foggers into an impressive looking contraption that generates a constant visible vortex as long as you keep refilling its water reservoir.
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The researchers retrieved pig heads severed at the neck from a food processing facility, surgically removed the brains and connected some of the arteries to a device they dubbed BrainEx, a contraption cobbled together from commercially available parts made by 15 different companies.
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Actually...when you say it like that it sounds kind of nasty, but surely there are people out there for whom a simultaneous mouth/vagina/anus session is such a must have that they're willing to bring a giant contraption into their lives.
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An expert on South Korean foreign policy, Robert E. Kelley, is speaking via Skype to the BBC, when he is joined by his 5-year-old daughter, and then a 9-month-old toddler who wheels in on a baby-walking contraption.
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In addition to the headset, two controllers, and the Vive's laser tracking system, preordering will get you a bonus of three games and apps: tongue-in-cheek physics game Job Simulator, engineering puzzle game Fantastic Contraption, and impressive 3D painting tool Tilt Brush.
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During my stay in Silicon Valley, I also met an automated arm that brewed specialty coffee drinks and waved to customers at Cafe X and a salad-maker named Sally, on display at Chowbotics, the tech startup where the contraption was conceived.
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But, by Jove, BioLite's FirePit is a masterfully-engineered contraption built to foster, contain, and withstand the hottest little blaze you can muster, which, thanks to the fan, you can tend all night from the same seat without a single faceful of smoke.
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The father-in-law added that a friend of his, an ardent hunter, had placed a deer feeder in the area behind Shepherds Way, and he'd been surprised to discover that someone had been using the barrel-shaped contraption as a crude stove.
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Check out that majestic, not too big and not too small Buddha—it's the kind of contraption that has me wondering why I ever bought a wooden incense holder from the market and didn't roll in the deep from the very beginning.
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Kert Gartner, the VFX artist behind the REALLY, REALLY good mixed-reality trailers for VR games like Space Pirate Trainer and Fantastic Contraption, has hacked together a solution of his own: VR in-game Virtual Cinematography just got a whole lot easier!!
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If a work-from-home employee had their desktop Slack app open — say, for example, to the Direct Message channel with Slackbot — then the above contraption should keep their Slack bubble green for up to 30 minutes after the train stops moving.
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It doesn't turn out to be as riveting as that scene from "Mad Men," but it did inspire me to Google the name Morton Heilig, sometimes called the father of virtual reality, who, half a century ago, concocted a contraption called Sensorama.
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The guy's name is Daniel Reardon, and he's an astrophysicist from Melbourne, Australia who was screwing around with a homemade contraption he tried slapping together that was outside his wheelhouse -- a sensor that'd make noise if you bring your hands to your face.
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Next to the loom, a doll the size of a toddler stands in a wooden contraption designed to keep a child contained within reach; behind that is a cradle that can be rocked by a pedal next to those on the loom.
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The Pi exhibition, "Suspended," features a video of a woman being bound in cloth, so that her mouth and eyes disappear from view, then hung from a bondage contraption, in a comment on freedom of expression being suspended in the public sphere.
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As you might imagine, as soon as the press conference ended, the new Thronos Air was swarmed by sweaty tech journalists elbowing each other for the novelty of gaming for a few minutes while having their backs massaged by this monstrous contraption.
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Basically, June and her pals (voiced by Mila Kunis, Ken Jeong, Kenan Thompson and John Oliver, among others) careen from one relatively uninspired crisis to the next without much sense of jeopardy, loudly racing across the park on some sort of elaborate contraption.
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Though I felt the weight of this contraption as I spoke, and I knew I limped because the meanest girl on our block had told me, it went without saying that the beautiful future me would walk, and even run, with grace.
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McGillivray, not sure yet if he wanted to keep the contraption, stuck a piece of clear tape to the wrist and drew a happy face on it, which made the arm look a bit as if it were putting on a puppet show.
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In a warehouse in Pennsauken, New Jersey, lying face down on a contraption that looked as if it were built for medieval torture, I flapped my arms, which were strapped to plastic "wings," and flew like a bird over New York City.
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The minute-long trailer is everything you'd expect from a new Chucky movie: Family gets new doll, doll turns evil, doll unleashes bloody reign of terror on family including somehow building an elaborate murderous contraption for the mom using only his tiny doll hands.
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According to the blog that Ben Katz and Jared Di Carlo created to show off their 'Rubik's Contraption', the bot relies on six Kollmorgen ServoDisc U9-series motors—often used in high-precision, high-speed robot arms—to manipulate the puzzle cube at blinding speeds.
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During testing, Joerg Sprave quickly proves you don't want to be down field when he pulls the trigger on this contraption, but it looks like it has the potential to shatter a few world records too, if only the IOC would just be cool.[YouTube]
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Earlier this week, Mark Rober, an inventor-turned-YouTuber who worked on NASA's Curiosity rover, among other impressive things, published an 11-minute video detailing how he spent six months creating the ultimate revenge contraption after someone stole an Amazon package off his porch.
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There are harrowing descriptions of the infamous treadmill (a 19th-century giant hamster-wheel contraption to which inmates, including nursing mothers, were chained for up to ten hours a day) and of the force-feeding of Irish Republican prisoners on hunger strike in the 1970s.
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When Baloo is playing with the sprinkler outside, he "entertains everybody," Wohr says, adding that the dog will jump through the sprinkler smiling until he gets tired, at which point he will just stand over the contraption and let the water hit his belly.
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The tricorder-like contraption, which consists of a headset that beams data into a hand-held device, can assess the likelihood that a patient has more than one milliliter of bleeding in the brain, signaling the need for a more thorough evaluation by medical personnel.
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Powered by a pair of AA batteries, the irrigator inside this contraption pulls a saline rinse from its upper tank through one of your nostrils, out the other, and then into its lower collection tank which after a couple of treatments must look absolutely horrific.
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"It's an interesting contraption to say the least," Holland, 23, told Entertainment Tonight in a recent interview, explaining that to drink water while in his Spider-Man suit, he had to push a straw through the costume's eye hole and down to his mouth.
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I've seen a crazy contraption that somehow will help you share your electricity with your neighbors in case their fuses melt in a storm and they don't want to brave the trip into the garage to flick the switch to turn their power back on.
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It wasn't all that long ago that huge swaths of critics were claiming Steve Jobs' keypad free cell phone would never take off, and I find myself wondering what they would have made of this steampunky contraption by a YouTuber calling himself Mr. Volt.
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However, this video of Emilia Clarke riding a dragon-like contraption in front of a green screen seems to match the short glimpses we've seen in the trailer, as well as photos of her character atop the beast as he lights up the battlefield.
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Like the brazier it was a kind of contraption, improvised by poking an old shrimp cocktail fork into the coiled spring at one end of those wands you mounted on an ironing board to keep the cord of the iron from getting in your way.
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But on Friday night, the pianist Yuja Wang, in the first of her six Perspectives series concerts at Carnegie Hall this season, made a clear argument for the instrument as percussion: a versatile, but ultimately mechanical, contraption that makes music from hammers striking strings.
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She holds sessions in her private home studio in which she helps clients find erotic awareness through a combination of talk therapy, movement and occasional treatments in the nine-foot bronze, steel and leather swinglike contraption that hangs from the ceiling of her basement.
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But when the head of the rescue operation, Narongsak Osottanakorn, declared that Mr. Musk's contraption was impractical for the task at hand — a task that had been completed, at that point, by some of the world's top cave divers — Mr. Musk responded with irritation.
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If Doom makes you feel like a badass because it lets you destroy legions of demons with the tips of your fingers, and Fantastic Contraption feels amazing because you're solving problems with your entire body, Golem finds a middle ground I wasn't looking for.
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We discuss this wild new contraption and the game that comes with it, Ring Fit Adventure, Austin brings us his thoughts on Daemon X Machina, we have a colonialism double whammy with Iceborne and Greedfall, and Control continues to be a fucking great game.
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"This doesn't make it any better, but no one else has ever done this before — and when you get done, they're going to take the contraption or whatever it is down and no one else is ever going to do it again," he said.
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In this performance at Streb's Brooklyn headquarters, the teenage members of the Streb Kid Company will climb walls, soar above the audience on a moving truss, play on a Rube Goldberg-style contraption and chart a course that explores all the possibilities of space.
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Steampunk Coffee Grinder, available at Uncommon Goods, $65This timeless-looking contraption is the perfect solution to masquerade as a gift for the person who wakes up hours ahead of the rest of you and wakes the whole household when they crank the electric grinder.
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She tied an old, green cotton sari to a wooden ax handle, added a spring at the top for a bit of bounce, suspended the contraption from a branch of the magnolia tree in our front yard, and laid the baby inside, hammock style.
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It's only belatedly that one realizes that, much like the Abdominizer revealed, the real key to great abs or happiness might not be a plastic contraption, that these possessions don't show the life-sapping rituals of work and the weeks and months between checks.
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Instead of getting your lube from a tube (which the Pulse website calls "outdated"), this sleek contraption plugs into your wall and heats up little pods of lube before dispensing some of it into your hand the same way you get soap from an automatic machine.
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MetaWorld players will be able to create things in the world, building stuff like buildings and houses together in VR. If you've ever tried Fantastic Contraption on the HTC Vive, you're probably already excited about the chance to do similar things in real-time with other players.
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For $800, you'll get the headset (duh), two wireless controllers, two wall units for tracking your position, and a hub that collects all the data and sends it to your PC. Additionally, the system will come bundled with two popular game titles: Job Simulator and Fantastic Contraption.
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Click here to view original GIFA team of designers from the Rombaut Frieling Lab in Eindhoven, Netherlands, have created what they believe is the perfect hybrid between stairs and elevators: an unusual contraption called the Vertical Walking that lets people move between floors with minimal manual effort.
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Pulling back the curtain on how they shoot nude scenes, she told Colbert that she was "basically a never-nude" because she was always wearing something, even if it was a stick-on contraption that often ended up covering more of her scene partner than of her.
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Some of its key launch titles reflect this: there's Tilt Brush, a three-dimensional painting tool from Google; a playful physics game called Fantastic Contraption; and Job Simulator, a wry commentary on late capitalism told through the medium of trashing office cubicles and tossing slushies at robots.
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When Paul and Jack activate the contraption in the game's opening moments, they trigger a "fracture" in time — a kind of temporal meltdown that blesses Jack and Paul with superpowers, while also setting into motion events that will cause time to end and humankind to be annihilated.
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Baluchi's most recent attempt to "run" from Florida to Bermuda via an inflatable bubble/paddleboat contraption he dubbed the "HydroPod" was cut short by the Coast Guard, who towed him back to land, far short of the intended five months he was planning on being at sea.
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Mr. Fair, who worked for CACI, a private contractor that provided interrogation services at the prison, participated in or witnessed physical abuse, sleep deprivation and the use of what he calls "the Palestinian chair" (a monstrous contraption that forces a prisoner to assume an excruciating "stress position").
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The viewer is shown a giant earth-moving machine from high above, hacking away at a mountain in Hungary, followed by the man who operates it—the camera follows close behind as he walks the hundreds of metres up the vast metal contraption to his cabin.
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While Mr. Potts put his fine, four-fendered contraption together in no time in a shop in rural England, Mr. Garofalo tinkered inside the small garage at his Long Island home for five years and spent more than $100,000 set aside for his retirement, he said.
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Alfred E. Smith's trademark brown derby; a towel from the Continental Baths; a fire-alarm box from Charlotte Street, when the Bronx was burning; the keys to Louis Armstrong's home in Corona, Queens; and, appropriately enough, a metal contraption designed to remove the core from an apple.
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Say, the iRobot Braava Jet 240 wet mop ($199/$169; 3.8), or Don't Lose Your Cool, ($19.99/$399; 2.4), a party game that includes a contraption you strap to your head that measures rises in heart rate and which presumably was tested on customers shopping here.
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Then you put the end of the bag into the contraption, you press a button, it sucks all the air out, and then it seals it so you have a, surprise, vacuum-sealed, whatever, a piece of steak, a couple pieces of chicken, a bunch of asparagus.
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I like to imagine what the instruments making these sounds would look like were they to take physical form — maybe some fleshy contraption from a David Cronenberg movie, capable of mutating, with the twist of a knob, into a completely different shape right before our ears.
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Shrinkage, not fitness, seemed to be the goal; the contraption was tested by a 7.53-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl, both of whom were identified as overweight in a jaw-dropping expression of rigid beauty standards that would surely have inflamed Ms. Chesler.
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In other works, the his vocabulary of symbols and abstract lines and squiggles can evoke different things, from a blueprint for a fantastic piece of architecture or a complicated Rube Goldberg-like contraption to a stack of evenly spaced horizontal lines – like a sheet of writing paper.
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A stuntman and showman as much as a drummer, longtime Mötley Crüe stickman Tommy Lee has been whiling away the dates on the band's feed farewell tour inside of his patented Crucifly drum coaster, a contraption that whisks his drum kit up off stage and out into the audience.
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During that conversation, a grateful Manning revealed why he and his JPL colleagues were so eager to view the films: They contained the only surviving footage of the August 1972 qualification test for Viking's parachute, the contraption responsible for safely decelerating the program's landers through the Martian atmosphere.
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The bundle also includes (while supplies last) a trio of quick-and-fun games that show off some of the flexibility offered by the Vive's room-scale tracking and motion-tracking: office destruction physics game Job Simulator, whimsical puzzle game Fantastic Contraption and Google's 3D painting tool Tilt Brush.
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Click here to view original GIFAfter turning a hamster into a self-portrait artist and a bunch of inanimate rocks into a band, Neil Mendoza has created a bizarre contraption that lets goldfish finally extract revenge on the humans that have imprisoned them in tiny bowls for decades.
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Here's the astrolabe that represents the sun in the opening of each episode, which is decorated with runes and images of the various houses, as well as the actual Game of Thrones title card: And here's a wide shot of the fancy steampunk contraption hanging from the library ceiling.
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It usually requires the help of a second person — to tighten straps so the contraption fits just right, so your gaze is naturally facing forward towards the images that are emblazoned in front of your retinas (although, I'm sure this can probably be done solo with some practice).
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GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH, FLOATING &aposISLAND&apos OF TRASH IN OCEAN, IS NOW TWICE THE SIZE OF TEXAS Slat&aposs plan involves a 2,000-foot-long, U-shaped contraption that will float on top of the water, using a screen attached below to collect plastic and other debris.
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Watch him mince fish and chicken into a fine paste using his extra sharp knife, make his own broth using some kind of bubbling cauldron contraption, slice the veggies with hair-splitting precision, steam and mold the meat into perfect little buns, and assemble everything into restaurant-grade sushi.
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According to Food & Wine, the Frork is a fork-like contraption that adds a handle to French fries, making it easier to dip them into the condiment of your choice or to pick up the stray bits of ketchup and secret sauce that may fall from your Big Mac.
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On August 6, 2012, this robotic daredevil hurtled into the Martian atmosphere at 13,200 miles per hour, deployed a supersonic parachute, ditched its heat shield and backshell, fired up its retrorockets, and proceeded to lower the rover down to Mars using a fantastically weird contraption called a Sky Crane.
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On the Verge 14 Photos View Slide Show ' Situated several stories above Bleecker Street, the fashion designer Autumn Hruby's studio is a series of vignettes: Tchotchkes sit carefully grouped, lush plant leaves tumble out of a self-watering contraption and her dogs, Bob and Charlie, lay across the floor.
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If, like me, you're not a stickler about historical discrepancies, then consider this shamelessly literal depiction of our white savior liberating the Black man: In one scene, Knight literally frees a runaway slave named Moses (House of Cards's Mahershala Ali) by breaking the iron contraption shackled around his neck.
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A small forge is tucked into a corner, and in the middle of a room with a floor of cracked tile stands a sculptural-looking winching contraption used to stretch heated gold threads for designs like a hinged olive-wood cuff with pavé diamonds set into the grain.
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"Nice Lady" (HBO) Silly fart jokes tied to meaty social commentaries that spin out into unexpected personal confessions interrupted by nicely crafted one-liners ("A soft penis looks like the sound of sad"): This comedic Rube Goldberg device is a quirky and delightful contraption, far sturdier than it appears.
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Too pretty to eat, and often way too flavorless to be tempting, the gingerbread house just sits there looking festive—in a Good Housekeeping/Martha Stewart kind of way—until the day after Christmas, when the whole contraption suddenly adopts the vibe of a relic from the Pleistocene Epoch.
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Click here to view original GIFIf you thought lumberjack would be one of the last jobs to be replaced by robots and automated machinery, you'll want to replan your future after watching this tree-climbing, chainsaw-wielding contraption shimmy up a trunk while slicing off every single branch in its path.
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So you have these high-concept kind of absurd things like Fantastic Contraption, which is a game where you just ... or it's not even really, I mean calling it a game might even be like incorrect usage, because it's more like an environment that you can play in and build things.
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My personal pet theory is that the galaxy is dim because an advanced alien civilization has built a Starkiller Base-esque contraption to systematically suck the life out of the stars, and that said alien death machine releases powerful energy bursts every time it knocks off another non-compliant planet.
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Click here to view original GIFA Latvian company called Scandiweb was recently awarded the Guinness World Record for Largest Rube Goldberg machine after spending over two months designing and building the 412-step contraption that ultimately does nothing more than push a button to light up a gigantic Christmas tree.
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Despite spending much of my childhood building LEGOs while Barry created a new Frankensteinian contraption nearby, I am still learning new bits of information about his interest in technology and the collection that it spawned, trying to absorb all the memories and moments before my parents eventually decide to move.
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Click here to view original GIFMost Rube Goldberg machines are designed to complicate a very simple task, but a Japanese TV show called Pitagora Suitchi—which translates to Pythagoras Switch—created an endlessly complex contraption to tell the story of two colored balls who have to rescue their trapped brother.
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Each time, I explained that the weird selfie stick-like contraption I'd put my phone in was a mechanized gimbal that automatically stabilizes my phone as I move around, so I can shoot video footage so smooth it looks like it was shot with the aid of a professional Steadicam.
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On Thursday, he arrived early at his family's tent, a roomy contraption that was provided to them by the protest's organizers, and set about sweeping the tarpaulin floor for the first of several times, before building a fire and cooking eggplants and tomatoes that city workers were distributing to the needy.
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Called "Highway Robbery," Volvo's scheme involved a contraption laid across a southern California highway that pushed water into a generator every time a car passed by; in turn, the generator would dribble a little bit of power into a shiny white XC90 T8 parked by the side of the road.
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The episode opens in a Kubrickian contraption, with Nora about to take her nuclear blast to the other side, before flashing instead to the future where she lives quietly, delivering carrier pigeons to a nunnery on her bicycle, living on a farm with clay pots, surrounded by greenery and solitude.
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The scone-like cake was being baked on a specially-made contraption in the village square at Llangwm, West Wales, ahead of Charles and Camilla's visit to the riverside village when chef Owen Hall and his team turned it and some of the 77-pound creation fell to the ground.
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As growers like him consider the move into growing coffee beans, they are eyeing machinery that can harvest the beans, which would reduce labor costs, as well as a contraption called a demucilager that mechanically strips coffee berry skin and pulp off the beans, rather than using water to clean them.
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No killer contraption defined the pre-industrial US economy more than Eli Whitney's cotton gin, which made cotton production efficient enough to become big business; this led, however, to an explosion in demand for slaves on Southern plantations to pick the raw material, resulting in the signature moral disaster of American history.
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Overall, the exercise experience is positive, and the interactive touches, as well as the ability to see the instructor and myself on the same surface, are useful enough that it doesn't just feel like I could replace this contraption with an Ikea mirror and an on-demand app streaming to my television.
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At night, the contraption is flipped down again, the linen goes back on and we take advantage of a minor engineering marvel — sacking out on a queen-size mattress that sits not on a bed, per se, but on a cantilever measuring 87.5 inches by 65.5 inches, a wall temporarily gone horizontal.
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They've come up with a plan that might help them right the wrong: building a kind of time machine contraption that will let them travel into the past — not to change it, but to steal the Infinity Stones, bring them into the future, reverse Thanos's snap, and resurrect half the world's population.
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But the online ad machine is also a vast, opaque and dizzyingly complex contraption with underappreciated capacity for misuse — one that collects and constantly profiles data about our behavior, creates incentives to monetize our most private desires and frequently unleashes loopholes that the shadiest of people are only too happy to exploit.
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Knowing none of that, a lighthearted visitor could also just stand still in Maya Lin's humble contraption and be only delighted, ogling the sky between her wood slats and listening to the birds that kept William Clark up at night, reliving none of the hideous memories and hearing only the beautiful songs.
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But the online ad machine is also a vast, opaque and dizzyingly complex contraption with underappreciated capacity for misuse — one that collects and constantly profiles data about our behavior, creates incentives to monetize our most private desires, and frequently unleashes loopholes that the shadiest of people are only too happy to exploit.
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It was also the year that human misery contraption Gary Barlow told Tulisa she had "fag-ash breath" and that James Arthur won the whole thing, and then promptly became better known for homophobic slurs in a rap diss and allegedly having sex with people while still wearing his woolly jumper and socks.
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It's creator, a former driver named Tim McDaniel who suffers from arthritis, claims to have made it "just to level the playing field to able-bodied folks," though certainly some of the customers who have paid $130 for the contraption—a pair of Arduino-controlled mechanical fingers—do so to avoid detection by Amazon's software.
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Half-a-dozen hangars spread over 212 acres near Pune, a city in western India, are filled with enough weaponry to thrill a Bond villain: camouflaged track-mounted howitzers, anti-submarine rocket launchers and, particularly appealing should Blofeld share Indians' fondness for trains, a contraption to turn a humble carriage into a ballistic-missile-launcher.
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With one end of the IV line inserted into Fahd's chest and the other end attached to a hole in the plastic water bottle a few centimeters below the water line, the contraption created a one-way valve that let air and fluid out of Fahd's chest while preventing any from going the other way.
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Yet in the complicated contraption that is Kennedy International Airport — which is managed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the airlines, and the companies subcontracted by the airlines — it was not clear even on Monday, three days after the epic runway traffic jam, who was supposed to have stopped them.
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Kobe's farewell tour is almost over, many of the teammates who have shunned Russell over the Young incident won't be around next year, and it's hard to imagine that Scott has earned himself another season at the helm of this flying crap contraption, which he has steadfastly steered into the mouth of an active volcano.
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One of these documentaries, Mark and Dan Jury's "Dances Sacred and Profane" (1985), showed Mr. Musafar dangling from a tree by metal hooks in his chest as part of a re-enactment of a Native American ritual, and walking while wearing a weighted contraption that pressed dozens of minute skewers into his upper body.
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As part of the museum's emphasis on tactile experiences, Mr. Steslow said, and to highlight the area's natural ties to the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, visitors will be invited to peer into an aquarium tank through a periscope-like contraption that will give them the perspective of a shark hunting for food.
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Among the frayed costumes and antique furniture that hit the block were two of the most important sci-fi props ever made: the proto-steampunk contraption from the 1960 film adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, and the miniature model of the United Planets Cruiser C-20043D, better known as the Forbidden Planet flying saucer.
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The Bluetooth-enabled motor module connects to your smartphone, letting you fly your paper airplane via simple touchscreen controls with pinpoint accuracy at up to 5 mph and a range of up to 55 meters, so it's perfect for beginners or seasoned hobbyists who just want to see what crazy paper contraption they can keep in the air.
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"It's basically a contraption that would be attached to the bottom of the drone and it would spin and, at a periodic rate, pop out these bait in various directions," said Ryan Moehring, a public affairs specialist at Fish and Wildlife Services' Mountain Prairie region, describing the device designed to dole out the vaccine-laced treats.
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On a cool, Bay Area night, those two dozen eager dads (few of whom knew one another) showed up at our place with an enviable array of fancy cheeses, a homemade coffee cake, some Brussels sprouts smoked via some jury-rigged stovetop contraption, and no small amount of uncertainty about what the hell they were doing there.
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I also use this incredible, simple contraption called the Olympus TP-8 Telephone Pick-up Microphone (no, I am not sponsored by Olympus, but, hey, Olympus, if you're reading this, give me a call), which hooks up to my tape recorder, goes into my ear, and therefore picks up both my end and the other end.
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The former puts a focus on the band's biggest rock songs as well as their longer, jammier pieces, allowing them to go into warp speed on "The Dream" and expand "Contraption" into a stunning, 15-minute piece, while the latter is a document of the OCS shows played in support of Memory of a Cut Off Head.
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Over at Nashville's City Cemetery, our second stop, volunteers wielding a contraption I'd never seen before were attacking a bank of bush honeysuckle: An Uprooter, it turns out, is a miracle tool, part wrench and part lever, that makes it possible for a normal person to pull a small tree out of the ground by its roots.
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Shiseido is testing new products, like "second skin," a patented cream that tightens skin, smooths irregularities and peels off like a Band-Aid; and Optune, a contraption that purports to analyze a user's mood, health and skin quality, then factors in the weather, and pulls from five cartridges to dispense a customized product, like an espresso machine.
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Thus "The Senses" features multisensory adventures such as a portable-speaker-size contraption that emits odors, with titles like "Surfside" and "Einstein," in timed combinations; hand-painted scratch-and-sniff wallpaper (think Warhol's patterned cows but with cherries — cherry-scented, naturally); and a device that projects ultrasonic waves to simulate the touch and feel of virtual objects.
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Thus "The Senses" features multisensory adventures such as a portable-speaker-size contraption that emits odors, with titles like "Surfside" and "Einstein," in timed combinations; hand-painted scratch-and-sniff wallpaper (think Warhol's patterned cows but with cherries — cherry-scented, naturally); and a device that projects ultrasonic sound waves to simulate the touch and feel of virtual objects.
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Modernity was born 116 years, 24 months, two weeks and two days ago, at a printing plant in the East Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, when a junior engineer named Willis Carrier devised a contraption that blew air over water-filled pipes to dry out the humidity that was gumming up the pages of a humor magazine called Judge.
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Trump understands that the EU is a customs union — an economic contraption that promotes intra-area trade, but kills trade with countries outside the EU. That is particularly the case with the French-imposed agricultural policy — an emblematic feature of the EU's protectionist fortress that Trump will never be able to open for Great Plains farmers.
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Confined to a cabin known as "Quarantine", Mr Burnside's protagonist John—who travels to the future in a contraption made to look like a blue police box and called Tardis B—is given a series of documents that reveal the history of the island and its inhabitants, and help him understand the anarchic principles on which the community is based.
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For instance, the tiger is explored through the 1940s American "Flying Tigers" pilots, who painted vicious teeth on their planes; Ottoman tiles with tiger stripes that may have been designed to ward off evil (or just as an aesthetic appreciation); and the 1793 "Tipu's Tiger" mechanical organ, which, with its automaton of a colonist being mauled, was a contraption of Indian resistance.
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The controls can get a little fiddly sometimes, as the button to aim your weapon-cum-skeleton-key contraption also sees you duck into cover (in a fashion reminiscent of Roll7's Not a Hero, but without the bloodlust), but quick restarts after each demise—and there'll be a few, accompanied by a psychedelic ripple of colors—ensure that frustration is rarely an issue.
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She sprinted the length of the gym while pulling a weighted sled, then ran back while pushing a heavier sled, then did bouncy squat-like reps on a contraption that seemed to mimic skiing over bumps, then dragged a weighted sled backward, then rowed hard on an ergometer, then skated side to side in her stocking feet on a slide board while holding a ten-pound medicine ball.
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Not long before the end of the play, which urges us time and again not to find its main character attractive, that leading man, David Tennant, is sent up and into the house on a mechanized contraption that soars over the audience: At last, Mr. Tennant's antiheroic D.J., as this Don Juan is called, can be said quite literally to take to the air, even as the play runs in place.
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According to designer Primavera De Filippi, one of the contributors to the book, the engineered, blockchain-based life form Plantoid exists in a dual reality, "both in the physical world (as a mechanical contraption made up of recycled steel and electronics) and the digital world (as a software deployed on top of a blockchain-based network)" Whereas a plant needs water and sunlight for survival, Plantoid craves cryptocurrency capitalization via blockchain transactions.
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MILF: My Interesting Lady Friends Talbotsing: When your fashion sense abandons its will to exist Crotch Fruit: Your kid(s) Outside Bones: Teeth Contraption Workers: Construction workers Pocket Butthole: A scrunchie that happens to be in your pocket Slut Burger: A sick burn delivered unto yourself only when you're lying Ohio shower: Basically just wipes Massive C Word: Class act The Three Bs: Bourbon, burgers, bus boys GABJARBOUYOU: Because I care about you
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Consider, for example, the fact that while everyone can name countless examples of machines taking away mechanical and "thoughtless" jobs from humans—that machine in your bank branch that counts 20-dollar bills at warp speed, or the contraption dealers in casinos use to shuffle cards—we've generally been comforted by the idea that it's going to be a long time before machines will encroach too far into tasks that require cognitive capabilities.
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