No longer will elevators that move sideways remain the stuff of fiction. ThyssenKrupp is rolling out a new cable-free elevator and it could very well be the lift elevators need. Eliot Brown joins ...

The elevators have an "exchanger", which can switch from vertical to horizontal to allow for sideways movement. The company plans to roll out the MULTI in high-rise buildings, but they also see a ...

and sideways — all without cables. It's like a real-life Willy Wonka elevator. As more people move to cities, we'll need better elevators, Thyssenkrupp CEO Andreas Schierenbeck told Business ...

First there was the chocolate teapot - then came this, the world's smallest escalator, which seems to serve little function other than to excite social media users. Located in the Okadaya More ...

The rise and rise of mountainside escalators continues in China. We previously reported on a 688-metre-long (2,260ft) ...