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LED cell carpet

One of the most extraordinary carpet designs I have seen comes from the Dutch company LAMA Concept. Called the LED Cell rug, made from pure wool felt strips with embedded LEDs that blend perfectly into the over carpet design.
I give the label ‘extraordinary’ because the designers of these carpet, Yvonne Laurysen and Erik Mantel, combined [...]


Soft Technology: Fiber-optic LED placemat

Sylvania a online store dedicated to innovative LED and other lighting technologies for interior decoration offers a e-textile like light innovation in form of the ‘Lighted Placemat‘.
The ‘Lighted Placemat’ uses bright, white LEDs which run off an easy to replace CR2016 coin cell battery providing 20 hours of sparkling dinning atmosphere.
The sparkle is activated via [...]


Mysterious sparkle for your Table – LumiTable

As the daylight hours are getting fewer it might be a good idea to bring some additional sparkle into the festive time of the year into your living room.
An expert is spicing sparkling up our outfit and living room is LumiGram which has brought sparkling tops, coats and jackets, cushion covers and even table tops.
Their [...]


Interactive Pillow talk

As we enter again the time of the year where we spend more time indoors it might be a good idea to look around how we can make this time as cozy as possible.
Pillows comes first to my mind as I hardly have seen any house, apartment or room that hasn’t pillows around for decorative, [...]


City Pillows from Florence Bost, a living artwork for your home

Florence Bost is the creator of a wide range of highly interesting objects made of a hybrid between fabric and new technologies transforming such ’simple’ items like pillows into an innovative, poetic artwork.
Her lovely range of City Pillows make discrete use of light elements such as LEDs or EL-wires in combination with beautiful design to [...]


Drift off to your favourite music with a Speaker Pillow

Working and blogging all day long deserves to have a good and relaxing rest. Being a bit behind with my drifting off and relaxing I had a look around for some cool and comfy pillow.
I always stay close to the soft technology and a search for ’sound pillow’ brought up the Sound Asleep Pillow with [...]


Pillow with heartbeat – My Beating Heart

The list of interactive pillows is getting longer with the My Beating Heart pillow, a pillow that has its own heart beat.
My Beating Heart is the invention from Yury Gitman and has been available since 2005 but out of whatever reason I only ‘discovered’ it today.
Why should a pillow with it’s own heartbeat be of [...]


Walk on Light – the Luminoso Rug

Rugs that light-up seems to become a new trend for the sophisticated lifestyle.
First we saw the FootLume with EL light in a Rug to light the way in the dark and now we have the Luminoso, a Wool Rug interwoven with LEDs.
The Luminoso is a creation from Top Floor an interior design company focussed on [...]


FootLume, the glow rug for night time navigation in your home

Our homes get a lot of attention lately from the ’soft technology’ innovation corner.
We have covered the wakeup call with the glow Pillow and now we have a rug that lights our way to the bed or bathroom at night: the FootLume – a rug that glows.
FootLume, created by Zoe Robson and Leona Dean, is [...]


Sweet dreams with the Speaker Pillow

Having difficulty to fall asleep after a stressful day? We found something to skip the sleeping pills: the Sleep Better Sleepsonic® Speaker Pillow.
We had all sorts of speaker pillows in our coverage but the new range of Sleepsonic® is positively outstanding.
Firstly there is the benefit of not needing additional batteries unlike all the other speaker [...]