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North America's High-Tech Hotels: Editor's Top 10

Our Editor's Top 10 list for North America's High-Tech Hotels helps you decide where you want to go. Editor's Top 10 lists offer selections from our editors that help you plan your travel based on your lifestyle, entertainment, sightseeing, or recreation options.

If you just can't stand to travel without all the imaginable techno gadgets, stay at one of the high-tech hotels on this list. Head downstairs for a big latte—or make a fresh pot of coffee in your room—then get out your trusty laptop and PDA and cell phone (or rent them from the front desk) and start tapping out e-mails from your room or the lobby. Bored? Turn on the giant flat-screen plasma TV and select a pay-per-view movie. Some guest rooms even come with remote controls that operate everything from the air-conditioning to the bed to the TV and DVD player to the lights. If you prefer high-tech accommodations, one of the hotels on this list is ideal.

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1. The Fairmont San Jose
170 S Market St, San Jose, CA
Located at Paseo de San Antonio, this hotel is at the heart of San Jose city center's renaissance, and it continues to uphold its reputation as the best pick here. Facing a park and the colorful Tech Museum, it is one of only a handful of true luxury hotels between San Francisco and Pebble Beach. Th... Read Entire Review »
2. Hilton Toronto
145 Richmond St W, Toronto, ON
Although this building's 32 stories of stained concrete look austere, inside is the most modern commercial remake you'll find in any Canadian hotel. The lobby is a designer showcase of polished wood floors contrasting with raw concrete pillars softened by cotton bunting, with more textile treatment... Read Entire Review »
3. The Westin Westminster
10600 Westminster Blvd, Westminster, CO
This place continues to take pride in being one of the most technologically advanced hotels in Colorado, wired throughout with Ethernet ports, WaveLan and fiber cabling. Guests have wireless Internet access for their laptops anywhere in the hotel-even around the pool. This 14-story tower, topped by... Read Entire Review »
4. Graves 601 Hotel
601 First Ave North, Minneapolis, MN
Formerly Le Meridien, this is Minneapolis's newest hotel, a sanguine operation that takes Midwestern style into the 21st century. As hip and sophisticated as any Manhattanite, this striking 20-story highrise is part of a multipurpose dining and entertainment complex. Some liken this place to a funho... Read Entire Review »
5. JW Marriott Ihilani Resort & Spa
92-1001 Olani St, Kapolei, HI
Located 27 mi west of Waikiki and a 30-minute drive from Honolulu International Airport, this property commands the northern corner of this finely tuned, 640-acre oceanfront site. It is part of a growing residential resort affiliated with Marriott's Vacation Club, though the most recent news is that... Read Entire Review »
6. Hyatt Regency McCormick Place-Chicago
2233 S Martin L King Dr, Chicago, IL
McCormick Place, is the contemporary counterpart to the equally gigantic, but more conveniently located Hilton Chicago. With an individualized retro style, terrazzo floors instead of marble, plump velvet furnishings in muted tones, and a techno-contemporary profile keyed to the media age, this hotel... Read Entire Review »
7. Hotel Le St James
355 Saint-Jacques St, Montreal, PQ
This grand edifice, the former Merchants Bank building, was constructed in 1870 and remains one of the city's best examples of Second Empire architecture. The recently renovated hotel offers the highest standard of elegance and service in Montreal. Rising above what was once the main financial distr... Read Entire Review »
8. Hotel Gansevoort
18 Ninth Ave at 13th St, New York, NY
This hotel occupies a landmark 12-story brushed-aluminum high-rise, topped with a curvilinear canopy protecting its panoramic roof garden. It has single-handedly changed the look of this often-overlooked corner of the neighborhood, but it has done little to advance the world of design hotels. The su... Read Entire Review »