LushConcepts: Germany’s Fraunhofer Society’s Future Hotel Predictions

Recently released images of Germany’s Fraunhofer Society’s research into luxury concepts and options of the future show that the hotels of the future may have an abundance of smart technology equipped.

Features such as windows which turn into television screens, beds which rock their sleepers to sleep. Robotics, of course are part of the equation. With a robot waiter delivering all your alcoholic needs straight from you minibar. It’s a wonder if we would be needing to move our bodies at all.

The various teams of engineers and scientists have also been playing around with sensor-lined carpets, which detect not only guests’ arrivals and departures, but also heating requirements in room temperature.

The rocking bed has been compared to the experience of being in Nirvana: “as if you were being gently rocked from a seven meter long rope,” by Vanessa Borkmann, project leader.

Even more features include hotel bathrooms which turn into saunas, and more robot deliverers – this time in the context of room service.

Currently there’s been no word about pricing or maintenance, and no confirmed orders by any of the major luxury hotel groups.

Source: io9