Gadgetory

in today's modern world and especially in San Francisco it is not enough just to have free Wi-Fi in your hotel anymore here at hotel Zetas we're looking at the highest of the high tech hotel top we have to be relevant in the tech world technology is advancing so rapidly you have to stay current hotels in the past would update technology every three to five seven years even you have to update your technology almost every year nowadays so what exactly is hotels edit doing for starters they've created a lounge so guests can play video games or even call the family from the road over Skype they also have a wii u console running we street view which is a virtual reality google map system that gives guests 3d street directions and what this does is gives you a 360-degree street view map of basically anywhere you want to go in the world we have pre-loaded 70 destinations that is fantastic no that's so much better than the thing where I mean I appreciate the thing but where you spread out the map and then draw a little line at the pen we're here and then that never works for me okay so we can sort of navigate to any landmark what are we looking for here we rolling your bridge yay now we don't have to go there in real life it's so windy sure walk across yeah let's do it oh look at this we're totally on a date Duke to do well we're in the middle of the street that's not gonna do it let's get on the sidewalk what else do people do when they're up here Dupin up with this thing one of the things we find the most is people like to show people their hometown okay like if they met at the hotel bar and then by the way you have my um that's where i was born held on that way that's delightful oh I can completely imagine that people do this no yeah if they have a couple drinks totally come on up i'm gonna show you my house hotels around the country see tech as a new amenity and a new way to bring in savvy travelers at yotel New York guests check in at touchscreen kiosks and a robotic luggage handler takes the bags hotel 1000 in Seattle has a body heat doorbell that lets housekeeping know if you're still in the room an aria resort and casino in Las Vegas lets you customize almost everything about the room like how and when the lights and TV come on and when the curtains automatically open or closed at zetas rooms offer some of the latest high-tech amenities as well this suite is decked out with a samsung smart TV music from Jambox a retro Atari 2600 and a streaming movie dock for your iPad so this is our G linked by obsess and what this does is any mobile device that you connect to it there's a button on the top that says TV you press it and it will stream whatever you're looking at on your mobile device to the TV oh really oh here we go oh uh this was not the movie as watching last totally is the movie he was watching class my girlfriend must have hacked my netflix account so this is our jam box by jawbone and it's a mobile sound system where you can connect it via bluetooth so basically you're just kind of gone around and picked out great technology to put in these rooms yes everything mobile everything wireless for business travelers that have built this high tech conference room complete with a large screen delta projector and Livescribe pens well the last ride pen allows you to record anything you write in here in a session so it's already recording right so everything we say I be taking notes laughing and all the notes that Molly records will be streamed via Wi-Fi to our Evernote account another great thing about this software in this system is that we can connect up to 20 devices to it via Wi-Fi so completely eliminates the need to have one person pilot a presentation each person can have their own portion jump in and out of the presentation new rule all our meetings are going to be here from now on of course all these great high-tech features have their drawbacks whether it's technical problems or the need to constantly upgrade the tech the hotel business is competitive and managers are always looking for an advantage it's funny that there's almost like an arms race so to speak with our comp set is everybody's trying to find the newest latest thing to one-up each other so it's going to be really interesting to see what happens in the next couple of years