Seven future hotel tech advances | By Patrick Mayock

During the first of my carefree college years, my freshman dormmate, Kyle, left our room for only three reasons: 1. to occasionally go to class; 2. to occasionally visit the dining hall on the off nights he didn’t order food; and 3. to frequently use the restroom. For the other 21 hours each day, he confined himself in our phone-booth sized cell of a dorm room, firmly planted within the warm glow of his then-state-of-the-art, 17-inch, flat-panel computer screen. This self-inflicted house arrest would have rendered the most stable of personalities certifiably nuts, yet good ol’ Kyle remained as jolly as Santa Claus on his way down a chimney.