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  • toto toilet

    Waldorf Astoria, Shanghai: the ultimate gadget hotel

    HANDS-ON And the best bog in town 17 October 2011 19:35 GMT

    It's not every day that you open the door to your toilet to watch it automatically opening its door for you, but then it's not every day you find yourself staying at the Waldorf Astoria in Shanghai.

    Being a journalist can be a pretty good...

  • Hotels to turn smartphones into room keys

    Hotels to turn smartphones into room keys

    No need to bother with room keys any longer 26 May 2010 12:13 GMT

    Global hotelier InterContinental is planning to trial a scheme at two of its Holiday Inn hotels, where guests can use a mobile phone app to unlock their rooms rather than using a key card.

    There will be a dedicated website where you'll have...

  • Sonic the Hedgehog rollercoaster to open at Alton Towers

    Sonic the Hedgehog rollercoaster to open at Alton Towers

    While themed hotel room also opens in Feb 25 January 2010 9:29 GMT

    Sonic the Hedgehog fans have a new destination to head to in the UK as Alton Towers has revealed it is to open a Sonic-themed rollercoaster and hotel room.

    A new 3-year partnership deal kicks off the first time a video game character has...

  • Hotel chain offers a Mac in every room. Hardware, Desktop PCs, Hotels, Apple 0

    Hotel chain offers a Mac in every room

    In case you can't stand to be away from your computer 22 February 2008 16:45 GMT

    UK hotel chain the City Inn Group offers Apple fans an incentive to stay with them - by putting an iMac in every room of its hotels in Manchester and London.

    Hotel guestrooms are equipped with an 20-inch iMac including access to iLife, free...

  • Travelodge trials spage-age PJs. Gadgets, GeekBooTeek, Clothing, Travelodge, Hotels 0

    Travelodge trials spage-age PJs

    High-tech sleep suits 6 February 2008 9:05 GMT

    These space-age-esque suits are high-tech pyjamas being trialled in a UK first, by budget hotel chain Travelodge.

    The result of a research, the customised therapeutic PJs are produced from a revolutionary fabric called "Dermasilk" which...

  • CitizenM hotels launch gadget packed hotel room. Gadgets, Hotels, CitizenM, Philips, Lighting, RFID, Wi-Fi 0

    CitizenM hotels launch gadget packed hotel room

    More connected than the concierge 23 October 2007 18:50 GMT

    Checking into a hotel room in the future could be very different in the future thanks to a new hotel chain and Philips.

    Opening at Schiphol Airport in early 2008, the first implementation of the citizenM hotels (which stands for citizen...

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