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Microsoft Research develops smart elevator that proves how predictable you are
In a pretty impressive breakthrough, Microsoft Research has introduced a smart elevator that uses sorcery of sorts to deduce where you are headed. Like most artificial intelligence systems, this elevator makes use of a learning algorithm that studies a person’s personal habits and traits, thereby correctly recognizing a series of patterns that help it identify…
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Mitsubishi Electric to install Worlds Fastest Elevators travelling at 59 feet per second in Shanghai Tower
Mitsubishi Electric has received an order from Shanghai Tower Construction & Development Co.,for the installation of the world’s fastest elevators, travelling at 18 meters (or 59 feet) per second, in the Shanghai Tower currently under construction in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China. Three sets of elevators will travel directly between the second basement level…
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Fuji roles out elevator-dedicated UPS with regeneration capability
Fuji Electric Co. has tossed out a new UPS which uses regenerated energy and is meant only for elevators. This new UPS system will charge the rechargeable battery with electricity generated while an elevator is operated in regeneration mode. The electricity would then be used when the elevator is operated in the power running mode…
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Hitachi builds highest elevator research tower, researcher’s lives just series of ups and downs
Here’s something one usually wonders about but rarely hears about, An Elevator test center or as Hitachi is calling it, an elevator research tower. This one in particular, called the “G1Tower,” just happens to be the world’s tallest of such towers. It’s located in Hitachinaka City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan and is still under construction with…
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F1 Moss and his house of gadgets
If you are a sportsman these days you get a lot of respect and love and affection and all that… and also a lot of money. Formula One dude Stirling Moss has got a home like James Bond where he has got a carbon fiber elevator. That is just one of the many gadgets there…
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Manhattan building getting personal car elevator
You live in an ultra luxurious penthouse in New York City, with all the latest in modern technology available to you at the touch of a button or click of a mouse. But I can bet you a million dollars, your apartment does not have a sky garage for your car! But if you are…