Wonderrug – Absurd of the day

German textiles/carpet manufacturer Vorwerk & Co. Teppichwerke GmbH & Co. KG and semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies AG (also based in Germany) have joined forces to create the world’s first (at least publicly known) smart carpet or “thinking carpet”. The Infineon Thinking Carpet is basically a carpet-embedded sensor network/sensor system that has the potential to literally revolutionize structure/building/installation security. Any building/structure where a high level of security is required is most likely a good candidate for the technology, including numerous government buildings and secure installations like The White House (U.S. Secret Service take notice), CIA headquarters and satellite offices, NSA headquarters and satellite offices, FBI headquarters and satellite offices, the Pentagon, nuclear power plants, etc.–you name it.