newfangled contraption

Alex Vernon, as a slightly dim would-be inventor, breaks this newfangled contraption hilariously.

People could tell which woodwind player was actually creating that eerie effect, or which newfangled contraption the percussionist was busily banging away on.

Spoiler alert: There’s a koala, Ad Agency: GSD&M Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel flashback to 1994, when they were wowed by the “Newfangled Idea” that was the internet from the comfort of another newfangled contraption: the BMW i3.

Company lore holds that he first encountered a newfangled contraption called a blender at the 1937 Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland and was seized by its possibilities.

In one scene a small-town sheriff is heard muttering about this newfangled contraption called a Walkman, which points down a “slippery slope” of juvenile distraction.