Originally published at: This optical illusion area rug will shred your room's space-time continuum (it won't) | Boing Boing
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In my house it would be covered with cat hair so quickly that the illusion would be forever ruined.
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My first thought was “whoa, cool!”, and pretty cheap – maybe the BB store has something interesting…
Then i checked details…
2 feet round (or square?), is tiny, and a brief check on Amazon shows that very (VERY) few people are happy with it. I think I’ll pass. Nice idea though.
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Oh god, not this thing. I had so many spam emails that somehow got through the filter for this crappy thing. No thanks.
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I thought about doing a very simplified version of something like this paint job on the floor:
The rug would only work if you were looking at it from the right angle, but something like this would (I think) look cool from all angles…
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Obligs…
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crap like this is why god made Wish.com.
We got rolled by this one (though a facebook link). Very disappointed with the resulting product. We use it just outside of the cat’s litter-box now.
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Probably a good idea to attach a line to the Roomba first.
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That design would need more of a Hellmouth vibe before I’d buy one.
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Shame. I was all set to take back everything bad I ever said about the BoingBoing store
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Plus, the 2 illustrations of the product are very different; one has shading, one is uses only black/white.
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