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Smart Hotel Rooms in New York City

Posted by samzenpus on from the it-knows-I-like-to-sleep-in-a-bed dept.

hc1379 writes "Back in the 90's, Mark Weiser a Xerox PARC scientist envisioned future computing will weave themselves into the background of our everyday life. People will use computing as natural as they use writing instruments. He called it ubiquitous computing (aka pervasive computing). UbiComp was a good research idea, but did not really find its way into the commercial market, at least not in the life time of Mark Weiser, who died in 1999. One of Harry's blog reports that the Mandarin Oriental in Manhattan has smart hotel rooms that can keep track of guests' preferences and change the room conditions automatically (e.g., adjusting room temperature and lighting conditions based on the guest's preference, and alerting maids when the minibar is running low on soda)."

3 of 131 comments (clear)

  1. great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now if they can only open the windows for me.

  2. small hotel rooms by YuriGherkin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When I glanced at this, I swear it said "Small Hotel Rooms in New York City" and I thought, "Well, that's probably because the real estate is so expensive." Do'h!

  3. Using words good on /. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Back when I reading the post, I envisioned future editors will weave himself into the posts at /. by making them grammar correct. People will read the articles here as natural as they read a book or a newspaper. I call it "Written English," but it does not often find its way into /. Probably one of someone's blog complains about this problem, too. In the future, maybe they will predict reader's preferences and use 8 seconds make proper sentences (eg. stop downing all the bourbon in the minibar and make a decent post).