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'Rub hotels': Vegas in a box

Once inside the hotel lobby, the entire check-in process is automated to ensure the highest level of privacy. No face to face interaction with desk clerks. There is nothing stopping you from waltzing in, using the touch screen to choose among dozens of themed rooms as if it they were karaoke rooms, and then stepping into the elevator which takes you up to heaven. Once you get into your room you will see a big screen TV, a large immaculately made up bed and a refrigerator stocked with drinks and amenities. A menu offers reasonably priced food and drink delivered to your room but even then, you don't have to open your door and actually make eye contact with anyone. Instead, the food is placed in a special window accessible from the inside of your room, dumbwaiter style. Food and drink is automatically added to your bill at check out—by automated touch screen, of course.

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