[conspire] Panic buying

[Ross Bernheim]

Voice operated elevators. What could go wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3lYLphzAnw

Ross


> On Mar 23, 2020, at 2:26 PM, Mike Higashi <mhigashi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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