Me, I think I'll let someone else take the first ride or three:

The world's first elevators controlled by magnetic levitation will debut as early as 2008, a Tokyo-based company said Tuesday.

Toshiba Elevator and Building Systems Corp. will employ so-called maglev technology -- capable of suspending objects in mid-air through the combination of magnetic attraction and repulsion -- to control the lifts, it said in a statement.

Regular mechanical elevators have several different safety interlocks to prevent a fall. I'm quite interested in what sort of failsafe mechanisms are installed on this system, which on the face of it requires electricity to work at all.