Our time is a technologically driven one: you pay for your morning coffee by swiping the top of an iPad, organize credit card bills online, and talk to friends through social media and instant messenger apps.
Hotels have been following suit, staying in stride with the fast-paced demands of their customers. Gone are the days of patchy Wi-Fi and a bank of pay phones in the lobby.
CNN recently listed the 10 most high-tech hotels out there, we've singled out the two best. Get ready for your hotel stay, 2013 style.
EPIC Hotel Miami
The name does not disappoint: this luxury boutique hotel in Florida is fashioned right on the water, all 52 stories of it sitting atop Biscayne Bay.
That's not what sets this hotel apart, though. Multiple screens dispersed throughout the place makes use-friendly, futuristic stay for guests.
Each of the room's doors bear LED screens called INNtouch notification devices. From inside the room, you can press a do-not-disturb button, or even have the maid come clean up, simply by tapping the screen. This is the modern way to hang a privacy sign.
Each of the 411 rooms in the EPIC hotel come outfitted with desktop PCs and high-speed Internet, plus multi-use Apple gadget docks.
The club lounge on the 29th floor bears multiple wall-mounted touch-screens where you can peruse the Internet.
Its website boasts that it is "more experience than hotel," and it is: the of-the-moment mainstay is equipped with an IP-based infrastructure. The robotic makeup networks everything from the temperature in your room to the call you make to housekeeping.
In each room, sensor-activated heater and air conditioning use your body heat to control the climate. All staff are connected to the infrastructure by iPhone or iPod touch-if you need to talk to housekeeping, all you have to do is tap.
There is also a movie theater offered, complete with cushy chairs and an enormous high definition screen.
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