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Design elevator buttons similar to a free-spinning trackball. Have
the
UV sterilizing light behind the button and only come on when
the
button is pressed. It wouldn't be 100% perfectly sterile at all times
but that is a bit unrealistic anyway. Every time the button is used
it
would tend
to rotate a newly soiled surface to the back to be
sterilized which has to be an improvement on the current de
facto system of them never being sterilized. The floor numbers
would be printed on multiple times in a variety of orientations
similar to the numbers on a lottery ball. (Or just a label
underneath the button).
Sanitation apparatus for buttons
http://patft.uspto....Can531&RS=AusCan531
My idea is now baked (patented anyway) [AusCan531, Jan 12 2017]
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I like it. Very cool idea. [+] |
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Or use speech recognition |
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If you rely on speech recognition to run an elevator, you're
going to end up with a whole bunch of Appalachian
hillbillies stuck between floors. |
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I'm not much of a germapohobe but being watching someone's kid fiddling with elevator buttons had me thinking about sterile buttons just yesterday.
...no really, it did. |
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I decided on using the knuckle-press method but there has to be a better way. (+) |
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um or maybe make it out of copper or zinc |
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//there has to be a better way// ... and the Sirius
Cybernetics
Corporation tried it, with unfortunate results. |
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Define "unfortunate" .... |
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On later models of the USS Enterprise, elevators were speech-activated. That's pretty "non-contact". |
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Mind you, that relies on users being capable of coherent and intelligble speech, which probably isn't practical north of the 49th Parallel ... |
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//probably isn't practical north of the 49th Parallel ...// |
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All of the UK or just London?? |
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Ha! Just had mental image of the mayhem ensuing in a
speech-controlled elevator where the Muzac wasn't
properly vetted to remove all songs with numbers in them.
The Beatles "Revolution 9" or the Sinatra/Kingston Trio
song "It was a very good year" comes to mind. |
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Just London. They don't speak the language very well there. |
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This is a surprisingly good idea. [+] for being
completely obvious, but the kind of obvious that
comes with flashes of brilliance in that they're only
obvious after you've seen them. |
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popbottle and bungston's comments on halfbakery ideas on
the USPTO site prompted me to search my username. Huh,
somebody patented my idea a couple weeks ago. Theirs has
powered rotation of the buttons rather than manually which
seems like a very minor improvement. |
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Silver-plated buttons if you don't mind them getting nicked. |
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I misinterpreted yours as having powered rotation until you
said otherwise. |
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