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.

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.

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.

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.