Shhhh, Don't Tell The Front Desk

Aloha Kakou:

Seems a hotel in Norway has technology sufficient to allow guest stays without human intervention. While I'm not proposing we take it this far at the Outrigger Maui Eldorado, could this be the wave of the future, at least at business hotels?

http://www.tnooz.com/2011/01/26/news/behold-the-human-free-fully-automated-hotel-stay/

TV vs Computer: It's All The Same At This Hotel

Aloha Kakou:

The advances in television based programming and all the functionality of computers comes together at this hotel in Sacramento. A first of it's kind in the US, the combined television/computer is apparently a big hit with this hotel's guests.

Can this be the future of both media?

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/06/your-computer-hotel-says-do-leave-home-without-it/