With people reluctant to touch knobs and door handles in public places fearing to catch the novel coronavirus, hands-free door handles were being tested in a Finnish supermarket on Monday (April 20).

To lessen the threat of spreading the coronavirus, designers are creating door-handle adapters that remove the need for direct contact. Here are five of the most interesting door-handle hacks.

For facilities that don’t already have such accessible hands-free door handles in place, a 3D-printable option is an easy add-on, and in a time of crisis like the spread of COVID-19, quick ...

Here comes a door handle that dispenses a dab of hand sanitiser when pushed. Developed by the British firm Altitude Medical, the sanitising door handles can be used from homes to hospitals where ...

A door handle that encourages people to clean their hands every time they use it. The handle, PullClean, was developed by the British studio Agency of Design for Altitude Medical.

Discover a Carlsbad family's ingenious foot-operated door handle, '1Step', designed for hygiene and convenience. Perfect for when hands are full!

To test the hands-free door handle adapters, Hong printed the design with a relatively inexpensive Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D printer, but says that files are printable on any machine.

That's handy! Hospital door handle squirts sanitiser when pulled By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Updated: 09:03 EDT, 4 November 2011 ...

This Hospital Door Handle Doubles As a Hand Sanitizer This way, infections don’t spread as easily—and no one has to remember to Purel their hands Rachel Nuwer April 1, 2014 ...

Swiss design studio Big-Game has launched a range of doorknobs and handles inspired by the multi-faceted grip of pencils and handheld tools. Big-Game was commissioned by Belgian decorative ...