SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Do all the buttons in an elevator work? Sometimes it seems like the elevator door stays open forever and there is a "close door" button for just those times, but does the button ...

TOKYO, Sept 14, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - - Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501) and Hitachi Building Systems Co., Ltd. announced that they developed a touchless operating panel establishing an elevator without ...

There seems to be a rule of life in the high-rise world: When you are really, really in a hurry, the elevator takes forever to arrive. Elevator manufacturers have been trying to make vertical travel ...

This is an interesting question for me, since in my role as an Industrial Designer, I have been responsible for designing a touch screen elevator interface for high-end elevator installations. Your ...

After Trapped In An Elevator premiered last week, we started hearing from viewers who disagreed with one of our on-screen experts about a quirk of elevator operation: the door-close button. Does it ...

Can we speak, for a moment, about the humble elevator button? I know, there could hardly be a more seemingly inconsequential design element, yet the elevator button has become the bane of my existence ...

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“Close Door buttons don’t work? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!” A direct quote from an Otis elevator tech rep. If the elevator’s car operation panel isn’t hooked up completely, that’s a code violation. When the ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s not fun to be anywhere with strangers. But by far the worst situation is the elevator. You’re trapped in a small box, and you have to touch shared buttons to get to ...

Hospital elevator buttons are commonly colonized by bacteria, and have a higher prevalence of colonization than bathroom surfaces, according to research published in Open Medicine. Researchers swabbed ...