Carpet

Engineers at MIT’s CSAIL have developed a smart carpet that can accurately estimate a person’s movements or body pose without needing cameras. The system could be useful for exercise feedback, monitoring falls, or tracking for VR and gaming.

Discarded carpets take up a lot of space in landfills, or create a great deal of smoke when incinerated. Soon, however, it may be possible to recover high-grade polypropylene from synthetic carpets that would otherwise just end up in the dump.

Cleaning up liquids spilled into carpets can be difficult. That's why the SpillMate was created. It attaches to the hose of a conventional vacuum cleaner, allowing it to actually suck liquid out of the carpet.

Last year, Philips and Desso announced a partnership to develop a light-emitting carpet embedded with programmable LEDs. The companies chose the recent Clerkenwell Design Week to launch the technology in the UK.

Philips recently partnered with Desso, a high-quality carpeting producer, to create a new type of light transmissive carpet embedded with LEDs that can be programmed to display important messages, directions, or other information, much like an electronic billboard.

A new "magic carpet" embedded with plastic optical fibers and electronic sensors can map the walking patterns of a person in real-time.

Researchers have developed a new type of wool carpeting that is completely biodegradable.

AirMaster carpet is designed to capture and retain more of the potentially harmful allergy-producing particles in its fibers and significantly reduce the amount of such particles floating in the air.

Now anyone can become a human antenna by walking on a unique carpet recently created by Swiss designer Florian Kräutli. The carpet looks like a typical modern rug except that is has one unusual hi-tech feature - this white carpet is also a radio.