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.
Example:
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!"