Vertiwalk is a small compact manual lift that can take you to the upper storey without having to navigate the treacherous staircases. This manual gadget can move you to the upper floor using only 10% of the energy that you are suppose to use in climbing the stairs. Vertiwalk is a pulley-operated elevator powered by your upper and lower limbs. The engineers who design this manual lift believe that it will come in handy as the migration towards highly-populated cities , and the cities keep expanding. Vertiwalk is a hybrid between stairs and elevator. The Dutch designers have designed the pulley-operated manual lift at the Rombout Frieling Lab in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Estimates predicted that more than two billion people will migrate towards the cities in the next 25 years. With the house rent price on a perpetual rise, the people have no option but to make the most of whatever space is available to them. The riders propel themselves up manually using their...
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