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 ...

Before the pandemic, there were many reasons to be anxious about taking an elevator — from being crammed in a small space with strangers, to getting stuck between floors. Now, as coronavirus cases ...

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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 ...