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Hot pet carpet

No Constraints Carpet
Pink Tentacle has a blurb about Panasonics hot pet carpet friends, this sounds like a job for a crafty arudino maker -

At the Tokyo Fiber exhibition in Omotesando last weekend, Panasonic unveiled the "No-Constraints Carpet" (tentative product name?), an innovative hot carpet with the warm, fuzzy appeal of a beloved pet. The carpet's luxurious coat of faux fur (available in white, brown, or skunk-like black and white) houses a set of smart heating elements that deliver warmth only to the areas you touch when you cuddle it.

Panasonic puts the "pet" in hot carpet ::: Pink Tentacle - [via] Link.

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Posted by: paulsw on May 3, 2007 at 2:41 AM

I don't think the 'smart' heating needs to be 'Arduino smart', more like a clever design involving resistive sensors or a segmented series of switches.

Also, "Squishy, flesh-like control switches"? eXistenZ, anyone?

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