{"id":3309,"date":"2010-09-16T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2010-09-16T01:00:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T08:00:15","slug":"cruise-ship-technology-royal-caribbean-oasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=3309","title":{"rendered":"Oasis an Ocean of New Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3326\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2010\/09\/cruise-ship-technology-royal-caribbean-oasis\/iphone-5\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3326\" title=\"iphone\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/iphone1-e1284582980282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>For me, it all started with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\">iPod<\/a>. Technology, that is. Being excited about technology, I mean. Prior to buying an iPod a few weeks ago, I&#8217;d run the gamut of &#8220;getting into the 21st century communications world&#8221; with a certain amount of apprehension. Actually, a lot of apprehension \u2014 and ignorance bordering on denial.<\/p>\n<p>Translation: I didn&#8217;t want to go there.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the iPod is safely embedded in my hand, not to mention my routine, there&#8217;s no stopping me. Suddenly, I feel like a communications junkie. So reading about the technological advances on Royal Caribbean&#8217;s Oasis of the Seas was more invigorating than intimidating (former self).<\/p>\n<p>Some of what I found, even in my advanced state of tekkie knowledge, is amazing.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3329\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2010\/09\/cruise-ship-technology-royal-caribbean-oasis\/aerial-oasis-of-the-seas-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3329\" title=\"Aerial Oasis of the Seas\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Oasis-3-400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>For example, on the Oasis (and its soon-to-arrive sister ship, the Allure), small children wear bracelets as they move around the ship. Misplace a child (or worse yet, a grandchild) and you send a query via iPhone and a transponder on the bracelet responds and shows the location on the iPhone&#8217;s screen. Just like that, found child. And if you don&#8217;t have an iPhone you can rent one.<\/p>\n<p>This was one of the revelations made on Monday by Bill Martin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalcaribbean.com\/home.do\">Royal Caribbean&#8217;s<\/a> chief information officer, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/storage\/systems\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227400286&amp;subSection=News\">InformationWeek 500 Conference<\/a> in California. He also said boarding the Oasis or the Allure will take just 15 minutes, with 90 check-in stations featuring the latest digital technology.<\/p>\n<p>See, it almost sounds like I know what I&#8217;m talking about&#8230;doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, it all started with the iPod. Technology, that is. Being excited about technology, I mean. Prior to buying an iPod a few weeks ago, I&#8217;d run the gamut of &#8220;getting into the 21st century communications world&#8221; with a certain amount of apprehension. Actually, a lot of apprehension \u2014 and ignorance bordering on denial.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=3309\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oasis an Ocean of New Technology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,31,19,15],"tags":[86,35,53,33,332],"class_list":["post-3309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-oasis-of-the-seas","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}