gismo

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Serios' gift was definitely offbeat: he produced pictures inside a Polaroid camera using nothing but his mind and a little hollow tube he called his "gismo."

From Time Magazine Archive

Reporters Charles Reynolds and David Eisendrath, who observed Serios at work in Denver, had little trouble constructing a device that could be secreted inside a gismo to produce all of Serios' effects.

From Time Magazine Archive

Picking up a remote-control gismo, he flicks CBS, ABC and NBC into life and says, "You see, I can shut one off and watch the other two."

From Time Magazine Archive

"That electronic gismo, as you call it, is the real idea behind the whole operation."

From Sabotage in Space by Glanzman, Louis

It worked perfectly as a lighter, too, till you pushed in on a little gismo on the side.

From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam