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[QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 4700220, member: 7631"]
I wish I could find some technical information on these floors.  The sites of the company that makes them (ASB glass floors) is long on graphics and short on information.  I can see several possible drawbacks to these floors:

They have got to be hard on the body.  Glass is hard.  The surface has "ceramic dots" for traction.  I can imagine falling could be very painful, both due to the hardness of the glass plus possible rug burn from the ceramic dots.  It could also be bad for those prone to shin splints.

The floor would be both a light source and a heat source.  Really unpleasant and distracting.

I'd think maintenance could be a logistical nightmare.   I saw somewhere that the LEDs were on a 25 mm pitch, so (I'm assuming sets of three) 432 per square foot.  I assume the floor is made in ~1 m squares.  How many diodes would go out before you had to get a crew in there to take up big heavy tiles?

Yeah, you can do cool things and great advertising, but at what cost to the athletes?
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