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Cool storage designs, part 2: Vertical carousels for office and commercial environments

By Rain Noe - November 26, 2010

in Object Culture

The Kardex Megamat Vertical Carousel is designed to take advantage of interior airspace to give you more room for storage. It's kind of like a high-tech version of a library ladder, but instead of the user having to go up and down, Kardex's system brings each individual shelf down to the user's height by means of a vertically rotating carousel.

In this University of Richmond video, you can see the system as adapted for an office environment to store paper files. The benefits, in addition to increased storage, are improved ergonomics, efficiency, and even security, as one door locks up a shit-ton of files. (Fast-forward to 1:04, the entire beginning of the vid is filler.)

This second video, by Kardex themselves, gives a more complete overview of the system and its features:

Stay tuned for Cool storage designs part 3, featuring a hyper-industrial riff on the vertical storage idea.

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Cooled Storage

13 years ago

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the only problem for automatic storage system is it's costly with the price of the cooled storage and electric consumption but when it comes for saving space and preservation it will be great to use it specially for commercial purposes.
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Mike

14 years ago

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Yeah, right "increased productivity". How, when you sometimes have to wait 2 Minutes before the compartment you're looking for turns up?
I think such automatic storage systems are absolutely superfluous - and goddamn ugly at least. I'd choose any old classic bookshelf over this.
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