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The Loons Elevator: A Guide to the World’s Most Unsettling Vertical Transit

The design is unmistakably organic. The cabin is egg-shaped, wrapped in sound-absorbent felt with a single oculus window that reveals a slowly shifting digital sky. Buttons are replaced by a pressure-sensitive wooden rail — you lean left for up, right for down, or stand centered to close doors.

During a 6-month test in a Portland boutique hotel: loons elevator

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