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Mood Floor
Mood floor shows temperment of barefoot guests | |
When you ask guests to remove their shoes when they walk into your home, they walk on a floor made of the stuff mood rings are made out of. The entire floor could be covered with a gel-like skin of the stuff. You can tell how they feel as they walk around your house. It also is aesthetically pleasing,
as it leaves a colorful trail or footprints--so it is kind of like art, science, and socially pleasing.
Luminous Shadows Underfoot
http://www.halfbake...Shadows_20Underfoot
similar pressure-sensitive tiles [FarmerJohn, Oct 04 2004]
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there would need to be a high level of foot contct for it to change color. Mearly walking on it would have much effect...standing - maybe. good concept though - croissant |
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Gel-like skin floor? My friend is Aquaman? |
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Perhaps you can wrap yourself in the floor covering too? |
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I like the idea of a fading set of footprints appearing as someone walks across the floor, but share the doubt that enough heat will be transferred in a step to make a significant difference. Maybe the floor could react to pressure as well as temperature. |
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st3f: depends just how heat sensitive the floor is. Then again, make it too sensitive, and it will be mapping drafts and the pipes under the floor. |
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Exactly. Without a significant heat transfer, the outline of the foot won't be clearly distinguished from the general noise of other factors, no matter how sensitive the floor. |
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Peak force, on the other hand will, in general, increase the faster you move, so a pressure-sensitive floor should even be able to pick up a runner. |
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Sorry, simple123, I'm backseat halfbaking. I really like your idea and hope you don't mind my trying to improve upon it. |
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Why not strap them into a chair and force them to tell you? probably more cost effective. |
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10 houseguests this month, all feeling the same. I should get some less-terrified friends. |
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Would be interesting in the master bedroom suite. Or as bedsheets... |
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Vivid red, angry oblongs cut acros the floor of the lounge room. "Ah", I thought, "Moriarty has had the curtains and French <note to self: Freedom> doors to his patio open all morning. He must have closed them just as I arrived." |
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Sure enough, the color faded from the floor over the next few minutes. |
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You can tell if barefoot burglars have been in your house. |
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Welcome to the bakery, simple123. (WTAGIPBAN) |
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//make it too sensitive, and it will be mapping drafts// |
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this is a goog idea, but that sounds even better! would it be easier than the idea itself, because i would prefer it - superpsychadelic flooring. + |
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