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Elevators are dull, dull dullity dull.
To alleviate tedium, MaxCo. Elevation Inc. is proud to announce
the
Elevertiginator System.
The heavy-duty glass floor of the elevator
protects a full-floor, high-resolution flatscreen display.
When on the ground floor, the screen displays, beneath
your feet,
a
close-up image of a rocky canyon floor, or any other chosen scene.
As you ascend, so the image of the ground beneath your feet
recedes
and falls away with alarming rapidity. As you approach the upper
floors of the building, you find yourself staring down past your
feet
at distant floor of the Grand Canyon, or perhaps a receding Saturn
V
launch tower.
The apparent ascent can be scaled so that, for example, a 10-floor
ascent looks, on the screen below you, like a thousand-foot climb,
appropriately scaled for speed.
For a less economical price, the walls, doors and roof of the
elevator
cab can likewise carry flat screens, giving you the full-surround
vertiginous experience.
Powers of Ten
http://www.youtube....watch?v=1Z53wTtGGA0
an essential classic [Laughs Last, Jul 30 2009]
Mystery_20Train
prior horizontal version [xenzag, Jul 30 2009]
Marco Brambilla: Civilization
http://motionograph...billa-civilization/
An animated collage that riders ride past (on the side, not the floor), from hell through civilization to heaven. [jutta, Jul 30 2009]
I think a Buchanan family trip to the CN Tower is called for...
http://www.thestar.com/videozone/412938
No virtuality here! [DrCurry, Jul 30 2009]
[link]
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Personally, I'm a big fan of unexciting elevator journeys. + though, nevertheless. |
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At Rockefeller Center the elevator has a glass roof overhead and some interesting lighting effects through the shaft. Sortof interesting. |
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Everytime the elevator switches directions, it should change scenery + |
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Perhaps the _lift_ could be fitted with hydraulic jacks like one of those fairground "simulator" rides, and the screens could show a nauseating twisting turning dive past sharks and dinosaurs, dodging comets and machine gun fire (with quadrophonic sound effects) before screeching to a halt at the entrance to the Human Resources Dept. |
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edit: //Elevators are dull, dull dullity dull// have you considered using the stairs? |
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Good heavens jutta, I've watched that link 3 times
now. So very neat. Thanks! |
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When I went there, the CN Tower in Toronto had glass doors on its elevators, so you could watch the city falling away beneath you as you rose. Now, apparently, they have glass floors, too. See link. |
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