After learning that over half of business travelers felt that they had their best ideas while showering, the company did a little bathroom brainstorming.
Friday, December 01, 2017
Keep your aha! moments with Marriott’s new high-tech hotel shower
After learning that over half of business travelers felt that they had their best ideas while showering, the company did a little bathroom brainstorming.
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This is interesting... I like the concept, trying to make a naturally creative space even more so, but why can you only write in the condensation on the glass? that seems frustratingly limiting! Would it not be better to have an actual screen there that you could actually write on and change pages on so as to have more room to write? Maybe it is meant to be more of a one off thing, but I do not know. Also the images they showed in that video were completely uninspired. Who wants to keep their random doodles from the shower wall? That stuff did not look revolutionary at all or in any way necessary to hold on to and keep with you. I do not know, seems like it has potential but definitely needs to be worked on. It is about time they spruced up their showers though. There is nothing worse than being on vacation and having a crappy shower with no hot water and little pressure.
The opening line of this article might be one of the best attention grabbers I have read in a while. In fact, this entire idea is quite an attention grabber. I have two conflicting ideas about this. On one hand, yeah, this is a great idea because sometimes I think of a really easy way to save the entire world in the shower, but then I turn off the water and I forget. Perhaps, if I had the ability to write down my ideas in the shower then I would be able to remember my ideas. However, the reason people come up with great ideas is because their brain goes idle because there is nothing to think about. When you are in the shower there are only two things you need to do, clean and sing. This gives your brain a break and it can wonder. If you are in a shower with a tablet essentially, your brain might not ideal, it might just be pushing hard to think of something to write on the boar or you might be too distracted drawing stick figures to come up with an idea. I think in theory, this idea is genius, but in reality it might not have the effect that it sounds like it would. Also, I don't like when my shower can email me, something feels wrong about that, not to mention if there is a clerical error and your really embarrassing stick figure or not to yourself gets sent to the person who was in your room right before you...
I don’t think I’ve ever had an idea in the shower and then finished taking a shower and have completely forgotten the idea. Then again, now that I think about it, I don’t know if I’ve gotten ideas while in the shower.
That being said, this shower door creeps me out even though there is no rational reason for it. I get that the shower door is touch sensitive, it isn’t like there is a camera in the shower, but I think I’d feel like there was a camera in the shower. That isn’t to say this technology is bad just because I’m irrationally unnerved by it, but it certainly doesn’t make me want to stay at Marriott Hotels.
I guess time will tell if this ends up picking up and being useful, or just being a decent idea in theory. Personally I expect it won’t end up being that useful, though I suppose what is important for Marriott isn’t actually whether or not this is a useful innovation, what matters is whether or not this makes people more likely to stay at the Marriott.
This idea is really redundant, in my opinion. I think it promotes a new level of laziness, both physically and mentally, and does not promote any sort of “creativity” or what not. I have never had a problem forgetting an idea within the 10 minutes it takes me to stand in the shower. If I have a really crazy idea and I am worried I will forget it (which doesn’t happen frequently because I am focused on showering), I just continue to think about it until I finish my shower, and will then get out and write it down. For people who are worried about losing their crazy invention ideas while showering, which again, I feel like does not happen very frequently, they can literally just step out of the shower mid-rinse and write it down. I’m also just confused about the execution of the idea itself. Is there a keyboard on the door? Is it handwritten? My computer has a touch screen and has a hard time reading my handwriting. What if the door can’t pickup your handwriting, then what would even be the point? Your words would be all messed up. Regardless of the execution, I think the idea is impractical to begin with, especially in a hotel, and don’t think it will go very far.
"Wow, Marriott clearly cares about the experience their guests perceive when staying in Marriott brand hotels. Such a small idea as a place to write ideas down in the shower can totally change perception of the hotel, building good will that turns into brand loyalty. I know that next time I need a hotel, I might actually check out (pun fully intended) a Marriott hotel where I am travelling so that I can see these innovations for myself. Also, the grabber at the beginning of the article is fabulously shameless: ""Marriott Hotels is really thinking about what you’re creating in the bathroom."" Whoever wrote this article is clearly witty, with a great sense of humor. Right away, I was interested in finding out more about the article and it's contents, as that is such a bizarre thing to say. Like, why should Marriott care about my bowel movements??? That's so bizarre."
Personally, I find the idea of my shower monitoring me a little bit strange and off-putting, not to mention a shower in a hotel room. That being said, I think it's a pretty novel idea to be able to save your shower doodles. Maybe if there was a waterproof screen or tablet you could draw on without the worry of being captured while bathing I would be on board. I just feel like the privacy and tranquility offered in the shower is a large and important part of the creative inspiration you may find there, and the ability to record you somewhat contradicts that in my opinion. However, I think there is merit to the idea, and I'll give Marriott credit for trying to do something a little out of the box and geared towards creativity.
This seems like one of those ideas that someone was really to keen to push out there. May I say an idea that probably should have stayed in the shower with them when they came up with it. I'm not sure if this is just me or if others feel this way but all of the ideas that I have in the shower seem to me like they are missing a lot of thinking through and they don't ever seem to turn out like I had planned them to when thinking about them after the fact. Like arguments that I have in the shower. I constantly think through how I am going to approach someone confront them and talk about an issue that we are having or even better talk myself through a presentation that I am going to give in the shower. But as soon as I turn that into a real life idea it seems to go to waste. This to me just seems like a little joke of an idea that sounds cool on paper as it does here but in the end is a waste of time and effort for Marriott as they should probably focus on more important matters at hand.
This is a really interesting invention that could work out or it could also be a little useless to people. Yes I agree that people often get ideas in the shower and there really isn’t a good way to write them down since you are wet and would ruin most of the things you touch. It is often hard to write a lot of words that are easy to read on a shower wall so I do not know if it will be that helpful for people with complex ideas they are trying to write down. I see why they showed two cartoonists in the video because cartoons can be abstract and those are the types of things you get when you draw with your finger on a wet piece of glass. I think the technology is really cool and interesting, but I do not know if the cost of the shower would be worth the amount of times people use it and actually get something useful from it. It would be fun to just draw on the wall or write fun things, but the percentage of times that it would actually save someone’s brilliant idea I think is pretty low. Well this is my last comment here at CMU Drama on the Green Page and it has been a fun ride. I have definitely learned a lot from the many articles I have read and gained the skill of knowing what 150 words looks like.
As somebody who agrees that the shower is their sanctuary and thinking place, I think this is a great idea. I’d love to see it in action for myself, but I guess that would take a trip to Irvine, CA. Sometimes I come up with ideas for tech designs in the shower. I do question if this is the best avenue for the companies resources. I would think that there are a lot of other things that Marriot could do to improve the guest experience. Parking in downtown hotels, like Chicago, come to mind. It is expensive and can be inconvenient. I’d be more interested in seeing keyless entry – guests would only need their phone or smart watch to enter their room. Or, they could have put that money into paying their low-level employees more. I’m curious as to how the technology works – my guess is some sort of touch screen. On a final note, I bet it didn’t take much time for somebody to draw something crude on the shower door and e-mail it out (growing up with brothers, I say this with confidence).
This new shower concept is really very cool. Personally I do a lot of my best thinking in the shower, and this would be super cool to have. I swear there have been some million dollar ideas lost in there. I really love the cool new innovations for very basic and ordinary objects. I can not wait to start seeing everything become “smart” in some way or another. One similar idea that I saw presented a few years ago was a smart table that would give you feedback about your nutrition and all that kind of stuff based on whatever you ate on that specific table. Another idea was a bathroom mirror that worked as a smartphone and could give you updates for what is on your calendar for the day, and give you reminders and alerts so that you could look over everything while you brush your teeth or dry your hair. The future is coming quickly towards us.
This idea scares me..It feels like it is the next step to big brother taking over. I agree with Patrick that having something in the shower that is directly connected to the internet is off putting. As for the product itself, I think that, though it is a cool concept, it is unnecessary. I don't think people will forget their ideas so suddenly that, if it was important, they wouldn't hold on to it until after the shower. I also do not think shower time doodles would be as clean and clear as those shown in the video. It is more likely to be random scribbles that only make sense at the moment in time and not after. Also what happens when the water drips down the wall from the condensation? Does the technology only follow the pressure of your hand? Also, if people do get a stroke of ideas in the shower and are prone to forgetting, I think that act of scribbling on the wall would suffice enough to root it in someones memory. The act of drawing/writing something with your hands is a memory tool and would help people remember. I don't think it needs to be high tech and shared on social media.
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