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Archive Home > 2008 > May > 04 > Hotel test rooms go the futuristic route

Hotel test rooms go the futuristic route

Digital doorways, runaway alarm clocks among the gadgets in the laboratories of major hotel chains

By Claire Atkinson / The Bulletin
May 4, 2008

It is known simply as the X-room.

Set up last November at the Courtyard by Marriott in partnership with the University of Delaware in Newark, it is a test guest room. It is equipped with everything from waterproof mattresses to the experimental technology of wireless electricity (no plugs) to a....

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