This time, there was no malfunction, but the contraption did nothing to help the drama.
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Probably because they weren't cushions at all but sandbags to stop the contraption taking off.
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The contraption was intended to treat 4 gallons per minute, enough to provide drinking water for 2, 000 people.
The contraption was intended to treat 15 liters a minute, enough to provide drinking water for 2, 000 people.
Interestingly, BMW put a small battery in there so that you can pop the contraption out for use while out and about.
In his house, they built and rebuilt the contraption so often, they'd get a new version of the game every couple years.
In the lab, the contraption has seven degrees of freedom, but it was reduced to five when we took it for a spin.
By using a device connected to the contraption's own WiFi network, thirsty folks will be able to select drinks from a web-based interface.
They paid a Chinese engineer and a translator to spend three months teaching them how to use the contraption, which is the size of a sport utility vehicle.
The contraption allows Homer to recreate the conditions of space.
My first encounter with the contraption was a few years ago at the 15th-century Convento Do Espinheiro in Portugal, where the toilets represent only a small portion of the area's charm.
They told us they were from Yemen, and judging from the awe with which they look around the contraption as the doors close: they have never been in a lift before.
Fry recalled how his mother had back in the 80s asked him to help her operate a fax machine, and that she had found the contraption a remarkable feat of human achievement.
In addition to the oversized globe, Broessel has cooked up a mobile version of the contraption for domestic use and an array of much smaller ball lenses with dual-axis tracking that offers 40 percent efficiency.
It will fit a large variety of aircraft, from light corporate jets to giant jetliners, so the contraption could appeal to everyone from Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people) Chief Executive Larry Ellison , a jet aficionado, to Donald J.
Outfitted in plastic helmets and roaring fiercely, Viking Splash Tour participants are encouraged to embrace the Irish capital's Viking heritage as the amphibious contraption travels the city's roads and waterways.
The former contraption features two monitors and traditional "dogfight" controls that work with most any software, while the latter offers just a single control stick to help you live out those Airwolf fantasies.
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Dung, or any other type of biomass, goes into the fuel cell chamber and the whole contraption is thrown into a cooking stove.
Joe Paterno has a statue for the same reason Auburn University built one for former quarterback Cam Newton (a non-graduate who attended the school for one year) -- because football (literally, the launching of a synthetic oval contraption through the air) exceeds all else.
It's similar in size and shape to the company's Galaxy S Pen Holder Kit, which serves as a sleeve for the standard-issue Note S Pen, but Bluetooth functionality, along with a microphone and tiny speaker, enable the lightweight plastic contraption to double as a wireless headset -- sure to come in handy with the SIM slot-equipped international Note 10.1 flavor.
Once powered up, the ominous-looking contraption serves to "enrich" the experience as you consume different forms of media, be it watching a movie or listening to some tunes.
In the Obamaian universe, the life force is a fairly weird contraption known as the Keynesian Multiplier.
He then drives the car onto a dynamometer, a big contraption that measures the engine's torque and horsepower while the car runs standing still.
In the gloom, his contraption could be a robot from an early Star Wars film.
Dr Harkema and her team achieved this by suspending patients over the treadmill in a contraption resembling a parachute harness.
The All-in-1 pocket-sized conglomerate handles your checkbook balancing with ease, but it seems the primary duty of this contraption is to read just about every memory card format we've ever heard of (and some we haven't).
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This contraption extracts humidity from the air, creating moisture which is condensed and collected.
It's a minimalist contraption that includes only the bare essentials needed in a modern desktop computer.
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