With electronic frills being the draw of the day, which hotels are the most high-tech? Online travel site Hotel.info points to gadgets and amenities like responsive lighting and TVs embedded in bathroom mirrors that rank these trendsetters ahead of the curve.

Forget peepholes: Four Seasons Silicon Valley in East Palo Alto, Calif., has replaced door peepholes with in-room LCD displays of whomever is knocking at your door. Oh, and they offer printers in each room along with Wi-Fi options too.

Forget Roaming in the City: Room Mate Hotels, partnering with connectivity pioneer company ConnectedtoGo, has launched «WiFi in the City», providing all their clients, for free, a MiFi Router to connect 6 devices at a time and get high speed mobile internet with 300MB a day, all across Spain. Others hotels have follow this innovative trend and are also partnering with ConnectedtoGo in various ways to improve the travellers experience.

Forget room keys: Blow Up Hall 5050 in Poznan, Poland, issues iPhones to guests that guide them to their rooms. But not everyone may feel comfortable at this hotel: «The place is half interactive art project, half high-design boutique hotel — guests in its stylish public spaces are monitored on video, and their images are incorporated into a real-time video installation,» according to TabletHotels.com.

Forget your laptop: Leave your computer home if you stay at the Nymphe Strandhotel & Apartments in Binz, Germany.  Every room comes with a Mac — along with Wi-Fi, TV, DVD, and an iPod docking station — in what’s described as an Apple Multimedia Lifestyle hotel.

The future will surely show us new applications of the technology, some very useful, some clearly forgeteable. What travel companies must always remember is that the technology must serve the client and it is not a goal but a mean.