New York’s Plaza offers iPads in every room

The Plaza hotel in New York is now offering an iPad to each guest in every room and suite that interacts with the room’s various features.

The iPads are running a piece of custom software that allows users to control lights, change their heat and air-conditioning and even order room service.

Along with those features, users can make reservations for local restaurants, request a wake-up call and print boarding passes for a flight.

According to Boy Genius Report, the hotel’s general manager said a previous system “wasn’t sophisticated enough for what we wanted to do”, so it chose the iPad.

The decision comes after a number of restaurants, including some in Australia, have started replacing menus with iPads.