The shower itself was a photogenic magnificence, an intricate twist of chrome contraptions and knobs.
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There are novels that are contraptions, configured like cages, traps, or flypaper, to catch things and hold them.
Ranging in size from a wastepaper basket to a Volkswagen Beetle, its contraptions, known as feeders, weigh and distribute ingredients.
The lesson: Hyneman said such contraptions are more about moving energy around to confuse, rather than doing any real work.
Resolution in mind, my wife emerged from the basement lugging a giant box of abandoned cords, wires and contraptions.
The obituary list of hedge funds should give pause to anyone imagining that all these contraptions are bound for glory.
So far this year the geniuses behind these contraptions have managed to pull a bit of the egg off their faces.
Our contraptions may shape our consciousness, but it is our consciousness that makes our credos, and we mostly live by those.
And now, these couples are finding out that contraptions short of marriage don't work in the real world - only marriage, equality is equality.
Inside, the space is syncopated into easy bays with carefully positioned skylights for natural light, instead of the baroquely high-tech contraptions favored at other museums.
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Consumers not only purchase electricity, but the emissions cutting contraptions too.
And they thought, at least, that by using contraptions they had fashioned, they would quite easily get by the security precautions, at least at British airports.
It can cost a fair amount of money to buy treadmill desks, and they can be hard to fit these contraptions into a traditional office space.
Fortunately for the trio, their invention had already drawn the attention of ResMed, a publicly-traded medical supplies company that specializes in contraptions built for people with sleep apnea.
Home Depot, encouraged by strong customer and worker feedback during a trial in the fall, outfitted each of its approximately 2, 000 U.S. stores with contraptions called First Phones.
The seven microphones, culled from our 85-year-old station's archives, are the kind of boxy contraptions that look great in front of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.
After all, disk drives are hopeless contraptions, whirligigs of complexity.
Not many people enjoy putting on those ridiculous contraptions designed to test your eyesight while straining to read a distant sight card and making up the last few lines.
In the technology space, you simply must make better mousetraps rather than foist new contraptions on the market that do little to reinforce the virtues that once drove success.
In the following video, you can see one of these soft contraptions as it journeys onto a bed of rocks and then uses colored liquid to blend into its surroundings.
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The military currently has as many as 3, 500 robots in Afghanistan, from small contraptions that a soldier can pitch through a window to bulldozer-size machines that can plow over mine-seeded roads.
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NASA, and the European Space Agency are collaborating on plans for an experiment in space in which the contraptions that would be used instead of mirrors would be 5m kilometres apart.
The machines aren't the humanoid contraptions many people conjure when they think of robots Lipson's robots consist of a stack of three white plastic cubes that stand as a simple tower.
Now even snowboarders are experimenting with the contraptions, using kites to shoot up the mountain without benefit of a ski lift and then packing them in their knapsacks for the ride back down.
Practiced by humans since prehistoric times using wooden ski-shaped contraptions, cross-country skiing was popularised as a sport by the Norwegian military in the mid-1700s and was first imported to North America by Scandinavian immigrants in the 1850s.
It's hard work, really hard work, often requiring tremendous resources (lactation consultants, machines that make you feel like a dairy cow, shields and all sorts of bizarre contraptions) that can take weeks, even months, to get right.
Mr. MILLER: I think it's nice that the Academy has at least - you know, acknowledges that movies would not be made and enjoyed the way they are today without these guys that invent all these wonderful machines and contraptions.
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