No More Stubbed Toes with Footlume
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 03.28.08
It's an electroluminescent that glows when you step on it. "The glow that the rug emits is very soft," says co-inventor Leona Dean, of London South Bank University, who also noted the innovation's party applications, "It can provide ambient mood lighting or flash in time to music as a talking point at a party."
Livescience writes that Dean and another LSBU engineering student Zoe Robson developed the light-up rug, called Footlume, for a college course, and they will exhibit the innovation at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Show in London this month.
Now if they could only hook it up with a piezoelectric generator dancefloor like the one at Amy Winehouse's green dance club. ::Livescience
If rugs didn't already cost enough, now your gonna have to ask purchase ones with a glow.