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For now, the team has only tested the contraption one scent at a time.
SCIENTISTS MADE A BIOHYBRID NOSE USING CELLS FROM MOSQUITOESSHELLY FANJANUARY 26, 2021SINGULARITY HUB 
It’s a contraption that includes electric thrusters that can autonomously stabilize a litter that’s dangling from a helicopter.
GETTING RESCUED BY HELICOPTER HAS RISKS. THIS GADGET COULD MAKE IT SAFER.ROB VERGERJANUARY 21, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCE
They aren’t revealing design details of the contraption yet, although a rendering shows a plane with six propellers and a V-shaped tail.
THESE NEW FLYING TAXIS OFFER A GLIMPSE AT OUR FUTURE COMMUTESROB VERGERJANUARY 15, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCE
They can be fairly complicated contraptions, costing up to a few hundred dollars.
HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY CARE ABOUT CHILDREN? (EP. 447)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJANUARY 14, 2021FREAKONOMICS
Its newer bike, one with a contraption that allows users to move the display screen so they can do workouts off the bike, met with enormous demand, adding to the pressure on Peloton.
HOW PELOTON’S $420 MILLION PRECOR DEAL POSITIONS THE COMPANY FOR POST-PANDEMIC LIFEPHIL WAHBADECEMBER 22, 2020FORTUNE
For the boots to make a VR experience more realistic, users will have to forget that the roller-skate-like contraptions are strapped to their feet.
THESE ROBOTIC VIRTUAL REALITY BOOTS MAKE IT FEEL LIKE YOU’RE WALKING WHILE YOU STAY IN PLACEVANESSA BATES RAMIREZOCTOBER 2, 2020SINGULARITY HUB 
Although not much is known about the usage pattern of the Kegehelm, historians and archaeologists have hypothesized that this conical contraption was probably one of the oldest Iron Age helmets used in mainland Greece.
KNOW YOUR ANCIENT GREEK HELMETS: FROM ATTIC TO PHRYGIANDATTATREYA MANDALMAY 19, 2020REALM OF HISTORY
None of them had ever seen a piano before and June must play the "shiny contraption" and sing a song.
THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINEJOHN FOX, JR.
Jordde held something like a black whip in his hand, only the end went to a box-like contraption strapped to his back.
THE JEWELS OF APTORSAMUEL R. DELANY
Four spindly legs led up to a globular body encased in a harness-like contraption.
VICTORYLESTER DEL REY
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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capacitor

WORDS RELATED TO CONTRAPTION

  • apparatus
  • appliance
  • contraption
  • contrivance
  • device
  • doodad
  • doohickey
  • gizmo
  • invention
  • object
  • thing
  • thingamabob
  • thingamajig
  • tool
  • whatchamacallit
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