I work for an IT company in Barbados and we support a POS system from a company called Micros. There are various versions of the system in use at hotels and restaurants.

The POS software on the POS terminals is proprietory but connects to an SQL database which runs on a Windows Server PC. The software on the POS terminal runs on Windows CE.

This is my idea.

What if each room at the hotel or VIP tables at the restaurant had ITs installed. For the hotel room it would be kind off like star trek. PC built into the wall, or table.

The guests would use it like the POS terminal and make orders from the kitchen or reserve a table in the restaurant.

The IT would connect to the network through WIFI or USB to ethernet.

How feasible do you think that is? Do you need more information?

In hotel rooms, I've seen this sort of thing done through the TV, integrating the display they've already got in the room; I think it'd be hard to make the business case for using a separate device, instead of something interfacing to the TV.

Technically, it shouldn't be any harder on an N800/770 than on an equivalent wince machine.

Ok, just a thought I had rolling around for a while.