Video: Sensacell's interactive floor shows trail of LED footprints

Far from being the first LED-infused floor we've seen hipsters and hippies break dance and boogie down on (respectively), Sensacell's latest contraption still manages to stand out by bringing back memories of when mouse trails really were the coolest thing about an operating system. Flashbacks aside, the installation -- which is currently at the entrance to the Comunitat Valenciana in Spain -- possesses over 1,000 interactive modules, each of which include capacitive sensors and a LED lighting system. The integrated tech enables it to recognize when someone is walking over it and consequently light up as if to leave an eye-catching LED trail of their path. Can you imagine how many hours days you could entertain an ageless kid with this? Video after the jump.

[Rage @ Aug 13th 2008 12:08PM]

They've had these in second life for quite some time now...bout time real life caught up.

/sarcasm (so no one gets confused)

[Matthew Hilario @ Aug 13th 2008 2:24PM]

Someone make a rollaway mat version, because my cardboard is getting old.

[Quikboy @ Aug 13th 2008 5:15PM]

If you're interested in this, check out the impressions you can burn right into the Microsoft Surface unit, using the Shadow Box app. It's from On10:

http://www.onten.net/blogs/nic/Live-Labs-Shadow-Box/

[Quikboy @ Aug 13th 2008 5:32PM]

If you like this, check out Shadow Box app for Microsoft Surface. It does a burn in impressions of objects that touch it like hands, playing cards, and even money. You can also make pictures with it.

Check it out on On10 : http://www.onten.net/blogs/nic/Live-Labs-Shadow-Box/

[TheGeektoriousBIG @ Aug 13th 2008 12:08PM]

Billie Jeans, Not My Lover!!!

[Xenoterranos @ Aug 13th 2008 12:16PM]

Your avatar looks like it's taking a secret poo.

[Dan Halen @ Aug 13th 2008 1:49PM]

BILLIE JEANS?!

LULZ!

[Will H. @ Aug 13th 2008 8:39PM]

Exactly, and that's why I want it in my house.

[M3Ls @ Aug 13th 2008 12:12PM]

Awesome now I don't have to pretend the floor is glowing when I do my Billie Jean.

[David Russell @ Aug 13th 2008 12:13PM]

Billy Jean... she's not my lover........

[Carl Vitullo @ Aug 13th 2008 12:16PM]

looks like they only light up in 3x3 squares...
that's unfortunate, it would be just that much cooler if every light was independent.

[Kris @ Aug 13th 2008 12:19PM]

I wonder how much a DIY version would cost

[Mike @ Aug 13th 2008 12:27PM]

That's not Michael Jackson! That's John Travolta...

[Blackstar @ Aug 13th 2008 6:28PM]

It's funny how you can tell how old a poster is from the comment given to colored lights in the floor. Those born after 1980 reference Michael Jackson back when he was black. And those born before 1979 reference John Travolta back when he was dressed in nothing but white.

[Mike @ Aug 13th 2008 7:36PM]

'81 but close enough to remember :)

[Yevon @ Aug 13th 2008 12:29PM]

On a scale of 1 to practical, I'm going to have to give this a 2.

[SOOPERGOOMAN @ Aug 13th 2008 2:58PM]

what does your avatar mean? By the way you're all singing it wrong.

Billie Jean is not my Lover, She's just a girl who says that I am the one. Unh

[Fergus Ray Murray @ Aug 13th 2008 4:12PM]

Would you give it more points if it ran the Game of Life with the input instead of just fading away?

[Yevon @ Aug 13th 2008 4:28PM]

@soopergooman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Emblem

@Fergus Ray Murray
I would be forced to give it an 11, if that were true. Kickass idea.

[Lowest Ranked @ Aug 13th 2008 12:34PM]

The only 'useful' application for something like this would be the lanes at the bowling alley after midnight during Cosmic Bowling.

[5thMeridian @ Aug 13th 2008 12:37PM]

Snake is going to be pissed off when he tries to sneak in.

[Zorque @ Aug 13th 2008 3:19PM]

That would be the best thing in the world.

[rajbir @ Aug 13th 2008 12:47PM]

stupid.. really stupid.. when the entire world is trying to decrease the carbon emission, someone finds an useless way to add to the carbon content..

[Dan Halen @ Aug 13th 2008 1:51PM]

I'd say light-up floors are the least of this planet's concerns, man. Choose your battles.

[kyle allen @ Aug 13th 2008 2:28PM]

im guna reduce your carbon!!!

[SOOPERGOOMAN @ Aug 13th 2008 2:59PM]

Your stupid reply and my witty reply made more of a carbon input than this floor so stfu

[BDK @ Aug 13th 2008 12:51PM]

Hey at least the janitor can tell really easily if he misses a spot...

[SomeLittleGuy @ Aug 13th 2008 1:02PM]

Hmm... Effective countermeasure for those new invisibility cloaks...

[neofolklore @ Aug 14th 2008 8:02AM]

SOMETHING like I was going to say.

[Marq @ Aug 13th 2008 1:05PM]

Better hope this isn't installed and a murderer chases you into a building!

By the way...this would be an effective way to make your dog run in the house to the point of having a heart attack. Lovely.

[Simon Hunter @ Aug 13th 2008 1:34PM]

the best part is the cleaner

*swoop* *swoop*



it probs wasn't even dirty...

[tf @ Aug 13th 2008 1:37PM]

won't someone please just lie down and bust out a snow angel for me.

[Lowest Ranked @ Aug 13th 2008 2:24PM]

That sounds perverted on so many levels.

[Thorondor @ Aug 13th 2008 1:41PM]

Scary that the technology could probably be easily tweaked to remember everywhere you stepped, and when you stepped there, as long as you were traveling on its surface.....

[Biff @ Aug 13th 2008 2:05PM]

Yah, I though of Billie Jean as well.

[kyle allen @ Aug 13th 2008 2:31PM]

i thought of the energy bridge thing on halo 1

[Bratan @ Aug 13th 2008 2:11PM]

Wow what will they come up with next? A urinal that lights up in the spot where you hit it?

[Faulken S Wulf @ Aug 13th 2008 2:17PM]

Don't they already have those? I mean they had the ones where you steer a car by aiming too.

[Ian @ Aug 13th 2008 2:32PM]

i wonder how many people walk over this with out even realizing that they are walking on an LED surface.

[Dee @ Aug 13th 2008 2:33PM]

Looks like people are leaving a stream of evaporating crap on the floor.

[theNONjay @ Aug 13th 2008 2:41PM]

is it me or is there no point to this technology?

if i want imprints of my foot, i can just go to the beach, or wait till it snows...

[kyle allen @ Aug 13th 2008 8:35PM]

it doesent need one! gah! you people!

[phelipe @ Aug 13th 2008 2:52PM]

This one is better, made by Lightscape

http://msn.techguru.com.br/Techguru-testou-primeira-pista-danca-interativa-Brasil-Confira.htm

youtube video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpybLiIKcR4

[SOOPERGOOMAN @ Aug 13th 2008 3:01PM]

Micro upskirt cams instead of leds.....or better yet one inside each of the led squares. or how about someone do the WORM!

[Wisam @ Aug 13th 2008 3:04PM]

They need to increase the resolution. Otherwise we wont get the perfect Billie Jean and don't make it weight -pressure- sensitive as no one will accept to walk over it, at least here in the US.

[Hamu @ Aug 13th 2008 3:06PM]

They need to increase the resolution. Otherwise we wont get the perfect Billie Jean and don't make it weight -pressure- sensitive as no one will accept to walk over it, at least here in the US.

[Hamu @ Aug 13th 2008 3:08PM]

Engadget why I can't delete double posts D:

[Moot @ Aug 13th 2008 4:33PM]

This is just thousands of tiny Chinese Fou drummers.

[Ken Klassy @ Aug 13th 2008 6:22PM]

no more sneaking around.

[michael @ Aug 13th 2008 7:13PM]

I wanna see someone moon walk across it!