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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Innovative Way To Get People To Use Stairs

Technology has made the world lazy. Admit it. We're all guilty of it. We would rather sit in a line of cars 12 deep in the drive thru than walk into an empty fast food joint with no one at the counter. When we're at the airport, whether we have luggage or not, we take the automated sidewalk. We don't even walk on it. We stand there and let it walk for us. And we ALWAYS...ALWAYS take the escalator, both up and down. We would rather let an automated staircase take us down than gravity and our own two feet.

Well, engineers in Stockholm, Sweden, noticed this too and wanted to change it. So they brainstormed and came up with a way that would give people an incentive to take the stairs rather than take the escalator. Here is what happened:

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