That odd word isn't some grownup's toy. It is, instead, a coined term that sprung from the genius of famed children's book author Roald Dahl, appearing in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It is a ...

Willy Wonka's great glass elevator is becoming a reality thanks to a German engineering firm that has developed the world's first cable-free lift that can travel horizontally and vertically.

Willy Wonka: “Going up? This is an ingenious invention that I call the Wonkavator.” Grandpa Joe: “It looks like an elevator to me.” Willy Wonka: “Yes but elevators only go up. The Wonkavator goes up, ...

A German industrial firm has created a cable-free elevator, "turning Roald Dahl's fiction into fact," said Bonnie Christian at Wired. Much like the fictional Wonkavator in Dahl's Charlie and the ...

It's not quite the Wonkavator, but Thyssenkrupp's magnet-propelled elevator comes close. The new elevator technology, nicknamed Multi, can go sideways as well as up and down and will begin testing in ...