You know, I see a comfy carpet like that and I can only think about two people on it. Clearly, not the ideal scenario to tune to any station. [Florian Kräutli via Hometone]

The Playing With Tradition rug by Richard Hutten is a throwback to an era when you didn't dare scroll down a webpage until images were done loading, lest you witness that half-loaded, crudely photoshopped Sandra Bullock release a torrent of lactation upon your screen.

It's not for sale because it's art. Sorry. [booooooom via apartment therapy]

The carpet features a series of cable ducts that you can use to run your cords from gadget to outlet. These ducts are made from a soft foam that makes them undetectable when you walk over them —which means no more tripping and busting your ass. All-in-all a very simple solution to a very annoying problem. Pricing information is available upon request. [Product Page via DVICE]

Not only does it display the time in the middle, you turn off the alarm by firmly planting both feet onto its carpety exterior. There's little chance of misplacing this alarm, unless of course you've got a dog that really enjoys rugs. – Jason Chen

Stand Up To Wake Up, Simple As That [Yanko Design via Geekologie]

In our opinion this is pretty ugly, sort of like the living room version of varicose veins. Then again, in our homes you can barely see the cables thanks to all the electronics that are on the ground. – Jason Chen

Cable Carpet [Designspotter via Random Good Stuff]

Why would carpet need to know about the people walking on it? Well it isn't as useless as you may think. This electrode carpet would be able to continually analyze store capacities and even be able to do research on what kind of fatties like to shop at your store. There is something odd about having carpet survey you, but it guess it really isn't any different than camera surveillance . – Travis Hudson

The Carpet That Knows Everything About You [I4U]

Be warned, however, that the project's home page is full of half-crafted metaphors, explaining how the game is somehow a representation of our own lives or some other beatnik nonsense. Thankfully, it doesn't detract from the project's allure. – Nicholas Deleon

Janek Simon and his Carpet Invaders [Dis Location via Kotaku]

It is based on the time when the surfer goes to a web site. The time in a form of hh:mm:ss is then used as a keyword for the results taken from a search engine. The program downloads the contents of a second given result, rejects html tags and white spaces and puts all textual content into a carpet-like form.

Better start saving, these carpets will cost a pretty penny. A finished, 6.5 by 8 foot carpet is going to cost upwards of $2,500 shipped within Europe.

Ascii carpet [We-make-money]

glowing carpet concept [Design Spotter]