MIT students reinvent the hotel lobby | bostonglobe.com
Picture the typical hotel lobby. There’s a concierge, a reception desk, and probably random pods of people doing their own thing. Now picture that lobby with a giant kinetic touch-screen map that reveals the best places to eat and sightsee in the city, tables that morph from work stations to coffee tables to presentation stations with embedded video screens, and a communal area with a charging mat that reveals who else is there and where they’ve traveled recently — turning the entire lobby into a giant opportunity for social networking.
