Elevators

October 3rd 2007

World’s Tallest Outdoor Glass Elevator Provides Great Views, Sheer Terror

Afraid of heights? Then you’ll probably want to stay the hell away from the Bailong Elevator, a glass elevator built onto the side of a huge cliff in Zhangjiajie, China, that takes you a whopping 1,070 feet high. This stomach-dropping ride is the highest and heaviest outdoor elevator in the world, and its future isn’t…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Oct 3

July 7th 2007

Video Proof of the Elevator Floor Skipping Hack

Click to view Here’s proof of that urban legend, the floor-skipping elevator hack, that we heard about a few months ago. This also proves most of the world is full of selfish a’holes (including us). In case you forgot, holding your destination floor and the close buttons simultaneously is said to put elevators into an…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 7

December 1st 2006

Buttonless Elevators Creep People Out

From a design standpoint, these new buttonless elevators in populated metro areas are great. Enter in the floor you want, and the central computer aggregates adjacent floors so people get where they’re going faster. The problem comes when people get on board, change their minds, and freak due to a lack of control. And unlike…

Gadgets Jason Chen Dec 1

January 27th 2006

Say Goodbye to Elevator Traffic

This is an odd piece of news, but Fujitec America has announced a new elevator system that it says can ease the bottlenecks of people waiting in lobbies and other “high-traffic areas.” Called the Destination Floor Guidance System, it’s actually working right now in the Metropolitan Park West Tower in downtown Seattle, and is meant…

Gadgets Tgrumet Jan 27

January 18th 2006

Tokyo’s Premier “Maglev” Elevator

If you’re constantly worried you’ll end up like the picture above, you may want to check out Tokyo’s newest addition to its high-tech stable of crap called the “maglev” elevator. Though it won’t be up and running until 2008, this technology will basically suspend you in mid-air through what they say is a combination of…

Gadgets Tgrumet Jan 18

World’s Tallest Outdoor Glass Elevator Provides Great Views, Sheer Terror

Video Proof of the Elevator Floor Skipping Hack

Buttonless Elevators Creep People Out

Say Goodbye to Elevator Traffic

Tokyo’s Premier “Maglev” Elevator

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