Video - Hotel room of the future

Video - Hotel room of the future > It has a comfortable bed with no mattress. It has picture frames that can be filled with artwork or photographs emailed by the occupant. It has a toilet that senses the user arriving, and opens the lid. It has a shower that, when the customer finishes using it, washes itself, so housekeeping people don't have to.

It is GUESTROOM 2010, a demonstration room set up for hotel financial and technical professionals to examine and be inspired by. GUESTROOM 2010 was built by producers of HITEC, the Hotel Industry Technology Exposition and Conference, at the Minneapolis Convention Center, site of HITEC 2006. "Our association develops and helps our members learn about technology," said Frank Wolfe, CEO of the Hotel Financial and Technical Professionals.

Five-thousand people from 40 countries are attending the exposition, looking at technology which can set their hotels or casinos apart from the rest. They're examining items like the EcoPower faucet, equipped with a small turbine powered generator to charge a power source to run the hands-off faucet. Hotel room of the future