Panasonic calls insane heated snake a carpet for lack of better description – blog.scifi.com: It’s called the “No-Constraints Carpet” by Panasonic, although it’s not really anything like a carpet. It’s more like a very fancy stuffed animal. Designed to feel like a favorite pet, it’s a long, snake-like object that gets heated where you cuddle it. It has flesh-like control pads that are meant to resemble the pads on animal’s feet, which is mildly unsettling. It comes in two sizes, a relatively modest 5-foot version and a room-taking-over 23-foot version.

This looks just too strange to really catch on — besides the fact that it’s clearly not a carpet, so they need to work on the name. But hey, I’m sure some lonely people out there will appreciate having a long, fuzzy, heated snake to wrap around them when they’re feeling cold or sad.

Somehow I’m reminded of those tentacle themed anime movies…