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Design Your Own Hotel Room

Where: United Kingdom

We're big fans of test rooms where hotels try out new technologies before they decided which ones to pass on to us regular guests.

In the UK Business Travel World has taken the test room idea online and at their Our Hotel Room website you can vote for the hi-tech features you most want in a room--and write-in votes are fine too, if you have your own idea--and then they're going to build the "winning" room in real life.

There are a few bits on their list that we're thinking are future must-haves, like biometric security entry so the hotel room door will open literally at the touch of our (and only our) fingertips. The free mini-bar sounds nice but doesn't exactly fit our idea of technology, and presumably "free" would really mean they just make room rates higher.

And finally, we like the idea of being able to use our iPhone to operating the air-con and the lights. The Our Hotel Room peeps then suggest we could also get carbon footprint feedback, which we know is A Good Thing. But it would probably make us feel awfully guilty about turning the heater on in winter, so we're not sure we can vote for it.

We're curious about what tech features people might add to the write-in vote section. Personally we're after stuff like 100% perfect WiFi and perhaps an alarm clock that wakes us with fresh coffee.