Tile - It's Alive!

I've recently discovered 2 amazing tile products that come to life with motion, touch, or temperature, and I had to share:


1.  Sensitile Scintilla Interactive Panels

Scintilla interactive panel from Sensitile on Vimeo.

"Each Scintilla panel is internally structured to have thousands of light conducting channels. These optical pathways activate the panels giving them a magically interactive surface which responds to the shadows, movements, lights and colors around it - no power needed!"


I saw the Scintilla system featured on Maison21 on the walls in this gorgeous powder room (unfortunately the Scintilla isn't highlighted well in this photo):

2.  Moving Color 

Heat and touch-sensitive tiles that change color:

A few of the colors from their Liquid series: