English company Terry Lifts has a small elevator designed to be an alternative to chairlifts. The Lifestyle Home Elevator lets residents, especially old people, shuffle between their floors with ease. It’s also a hilarious way to make an entrance.
The elevator has a capacity of about 550 lb. and is packed with safety features. It will stop the moment it detects an obstruction, and won’t move unless the door is closed properly. Terry Lifts will also make sure that the elevator’s exposed surfaces match your floor and ceiling, so it’ll stay out of sight when unneeded.
Watch Reuters’ video report for more on the elevator. I really hope you can add speakers to it. This is why Richard Strauss composed Also sprach Zarathustra.
[via Fast Co. Exist]
I think treehouses are a part of every person’s childhood in one way or another, whether or not they actually had one in their backyard. I didn’t, but I had a friend who did, and a group of us would spend countless afternoons holed up in there, eating stuff we shouldn’t and talking about ghosts that we thought actually existed. Eventually, we outgrew the treehouse–both figuratively and literally–but there was a point in time where we actually wanted to live in one.
Taking treehouses one step further is Ethan Schlussler of Sandpoint, Idaho, who built a bicycle-powered treehouse elevator because he got tired of having to climb a ladder to get to his 30-foot something treehouse.
Ethan explains: “It was originally a 20-something speed bicycle, but first gear wasn’t slow enough, so I cut the large sprocket off the front, and welded it on the rear to get a lower gear. I also had to do away with the de-railers and make a new chain tensioner.” He adds that he’s planning to build walls and insulate his treehouse in a few weeks, as he plans to actually sleep or even live in it eventually.
VIA [ Geekologie ]