Elevator

Israeli startup DigiGage has created a display system for elevators that shows images and information moving along with viewers as they go up or down. The system is already being used in several countries, including the US and China.

Ethan Schlussler, 22, from Sandpoint, Idaho has built his very own human powered bicycle elevator as a means to gain access to his recently constructed treehouse. Schlussler came up with the idea when he was searching for a faster alternative to using a ladder to get up to his treehouse.

Fraunhofer researchers have developed a FluzCrawler robot for inspecting steel cables on bridges, elevators, ski lifts and cable cars for signs of strain, wear and corrosion.

A new lightweight elevator-hoisting line known as UltraRope could make kilometer-high elevators possible.

The Porsche Design brand has designed a residential tower in Miami that features three robotic car elevators that allow inhabitants to take their cars right into their home.

A Japanese company plans to build a space elevator that runs along a carbon nanotube cable anchored in orbit around the earth.

Mitsubishi has developed new technologies that enable the construction of ultra-high-speed elevators able to travel at speeds of over 60 km/h (37 mph or 1,000 meters a second).

Mitsubishi's 80-person elevator might be the world's largest

Hitachi is building a tower at its R&D site in order to test the world's fastest elevator