Idea #25: Hungry Floor

Sure we’ve got Roomba these days, but we still end up sweeping and mopping the floor.  Sure we have high-powered cleaning detergents, bleach, mop&glo, heck we even have Mr.Clean as well but we still have dirty floors that we can’t eat off of.  It’s a sad truth but even with such conveniences as these we still choose to break our backs with mops and brooms.  Is it really a good thing that children have to do such repetitive and non-creative chores?  WE should be spending our time doing things that we want to do and are a pleasure to us, and we should be able to do it without ridiculous inventions.

Hungry Floor

In some houses the heating system is wired through the floor.  This means that the way the room heats up is passive and slow but from the bottom up…in other words, feet are toasty on the ground.  A better example come from years spent with fish tanks.  There are two types of filtering systems that are used by most every owner of fish: the regular or external method or the under gravel method. The under gravel method has many advantages but the best part is that it has to be cleaned by the owner much less often than the external filter: every 6 months vs. once every 4 weeks or so.  It is a curiously effective way to maintain cleanliness in a fish tank.

So why not apply this same principle to our very own homes?!