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Smart carpet tracks your movements for better exercise or gaming

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Engineers at MIT’s CSAIL have developed a smart carpet that can accurately estimate a person’s movements or body pose without needing cameras. The system could be useful for exercise feedback, monitoring falls, or tracking for VR and gaming.Continue Re… Continue reading Smart carpet tracks your movements for better exercise or gaming→

Recycling process pulls “virgin-standard” polypropylene from carpets

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Discarded carpets inevitably take up a lot of space in landfills, or create a great deal of smoke when incinerated. Soon, however, it may be possible to recover high-grade polypropylene from synthetic carpets that would otherwise just end up in the dum… Continue reading Recycling process pulls “virgin-standard” polypropylene from carpets→