1) The period of
time needed to familiarize oneself with a new electronic device.
2) Often, a period of extreme anxiety and frustration stemming from one's need to learn a lot of technical information in a
short to non-existent period of
time.
1) "I'm sorry, Joe. I won't be in to
work today. I'm exhausted from staying up all
night learning how to use my new i-phone and am suffering this morning from a bad case of contraption adaption."
2) "I'm now limiting my persuit of new e-toys to only those gadgets with a low level of contraption adaption."
3) The salesguy said: "If you buy this new
Mac laptop today, I guarantee you'll start using it today." "Yeah, sure", I said. "I'll
BET there's no contraption adaption for THIS machine!"