New Power Management from Steelcase

A couple of weeks I indicated that I had seen something pretty cool from Steelcase.  They showed a group of us here at Auburn University their new system, Thread, to get power pretty much anywhere you want in a room by running it safely under the carpet.

Thread in action

So, notice that we have two layers in our sample.  The bottom layer is our regular floor, the top layer is our regular carpet.  The power module is very thin, making it invisible and infeelable under the carpet.  Specialized plugs make the appearance of the power outlets very flat as well.  And to top it off, a power pole can be added to this system that has 6 outlets.
The modules can be jigsaw puzzled together to cover central areas of a floor without power.
So, no need for a raised floor (expensive), core drilling (expensive) or trenching (really expensive, esp when asbestos gets thrown into the mix.

I am looking forward putting this kind of solution in place in some areas where power is needed in the middle of the floor.