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Hotel calls time on keycards

23 Mar 2009 by Mark Caswell

Polish “electronic art hotel” Blow Up Hall opens this month, and offers guests a unique way of opening their room door – by iPhone.

The futuristic hotel in Poznan, Poland, has no numbers on its doors, so guests are given an iPhone to point down the hallway, with a small screen lighting up outside the correct bedroom door.

Other features of the 22-room hotel include an interactive display in the foyer that fragments surveillance camera footage into 2,400 images. Guests’ iPhones are also pre-loaded with details on the hotel’s facilities, and can be used to call staff from outside the hotel if assistance is needed in transfers, restaurant reservations, etc.

For more information visit blowuphall5050.com.

Report by Mark Caswell

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