[conspire] Panic buying

[Mike Higashi]

Maybe we'll see voice controls retrofitted onto elevators, a la Star Trek.

Mike

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, 1:17 PM Peter Knaggs <peter.knaggs at gmail.com> wrote:

> There was an entertaining video from China showing how someone had placed
> toothpicks in the elevator for patrons to use to press the buttons. I guess
> it isn't a recommended approach, but it made me wonder whether carrying a
> metal object as well as a lighter would allow pressing elevator buttons and
> subsequently heating up the metal using the lighter so that the virus gets
> killed. A better design might perhaps be a metal rod enclosed in a
> ultra-violet emitting enclosure: once the rod has been used to press the
> elevator button, it could be pulled back inside the enclosure where the VUC
> would kill virus that happened to get onto it, making it suitable for reuse
> without causing spread of the virus. Perhaps a silly idea, but they do have
> keyboards that use a similar VUC approach to rid themselves of viruses
> after each use.
>
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