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

Look; you gotta press this little gismo, here, to let the action shut when there's no clip in, or when the clip's empty.

From Null-ABC by Dongen, H. R. van

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