Every question, answered.

That's exactly why it's shaped this way. A bare cup base has nothing firm to stand on in carpet pile — it sinks and leans the moment you let go. The wide footprint spreads across the fibers instead of sinking into them, and the fins keep the drink from rocking loose when a foot or a knee lands nearby. Knock it off level and it settles back.

Fair — tannins set fast once they're in the pile. This resists tipping; it holds the glass steady and settles back when bumped. It's not a sealed cup, so on a full-length movie with a light rug, pairing it with a lidded tumbler adds a second layer.

Yes — that's carpet's hardest case, and it's exactly what the wide base is for. On bent, high fibers a bare cup base has nothing firm to stand on at all; the base rides the give instead of leaning into it.

Works there too. Fabric over pile is two soft layers instead of one, so folds travel when anyone shifts weight nearby — the base flexes with the fold and brings the drink back level instead of handing it over.

Measure the bottom, not the top. A base of 2 to 3 inches across fits — the 40 oz Stanley does. Handled mugs don't; the handle gets in the way of the fins.

No. Nothing pins into the pile, sticks to the rug, or needs the floor prepped first. It sits on top of whatever you're sitting on — pile, blanket, or rug edge — and picks up in a second when the movie's over.

It's steadier than a bare cup on the rug, which is the real risk at crawler height — but it's not a lid. Pair it with a sippy or straw cup for the child's own drink, and keep your own hot coffee where a beeline can't reach it.

Rinse it or run it through the dishwasher. It's one piece of flexible material with nothing to come apart, so there's no seam for a spill to hide in.

It's called the Steadi, molded in small runs in Orange, California by Steadi Labs — veteran-founded and patent pending. Every order ships free from steadilabs.com, with 30 days to change your mind.

No — carpet doesn't abrade it the way a rough deck or gravel would; pile is soft by definition, and the base doesn't drag across it, it sits on top. It's one piece of solid flexible material with no seams, hinges, or moving parts to wear loose, on carpet or anywhere else.

Any cold drink sweats, and that moisture lands wherever the drink stands — the base doesn't add to it, but it isn't sealed to the floor either, so it doesn't stop it. A folded cloth or coaster under it on light carpet during a long movie is a reasonable extra step, the same as you'd take on hardwood.

A robot vacuum bumping the base is a lighter nudge than a foot or a knee, and the fins gripping the drink handle it the same way — it settles back rather than riding the bump into a tip. Still worth keeping robot-vacuum schedules off the rug during movie night, the same caution you'd use with any drink at floor level.

Yes — the base doesn't care which room it's in. Bedroom carpet is actually where a lot of water glasses end up parked on the floor overnight, next to a nightstand that's already full of a phone and a charger; it holds the same way there as it does on the living-room rug, and it's easy to spot and grab before bare feet find it first.

For anyone who spends real time on the floor — movie nights, board game nights, a parent on the playroom rug — it solves a small, specific, instantly recognizable annoyance rather than a vague one, which is what makes it land as a gift instead of a novelty. It comes in enough colors to match a rug or a room, and it packs flat enough to tuck into a card instead of needing its own box.

Yes. Nothing about it is limited to one drink at a time — each one stands on its own base, so a table of six board-game players exiled to the carpet around it can each hold their own can, glass, or bottle steady without sharing or handing anything back and forth.

Both are furniture, sized for someone in a chair, not someone on the floor. A folding tray's legs land unevenly on pile and rock at the slightest mismatch, and a pedestal table's single narrow foot is one of the least stable shapes you can put on compressible carpet. This has no legs and no height problem — it's one wide, flexible base that lies across the fibers instead of balancing on a point.

It's solid, non-porous material with no seams for liquid to sink into, so wine or coffee wipes off the base rather than setting the way it would in carpet fiber. It isn't sealed to the floor, so a genuine tip-over still reaches the rug the same as any dropped drink — the base's job is keeping the drink from tipping in the first place, not catching it after the fact.

Yes — low, tight weaves like berber and frieze are actually the easier case. The harder end of the range is high pile and shag, where the fibers bend under weight instead of resisting it; a low, dense weave gives the wide base a firmer plane to spread across from the start.