Color me jealous and desperately seeking a bank loan after reading the account of a $19,000 airplane ride from Singapore to New York that included multiple courses of lobster, a full-size bed and a "private room" for waiting pre-departure.

UC Berkeley freshman Derek Low didn't care much for how uncool his non-automated dorm was, so he set out to enhance it with a few practical, dorm-of-the-future additions like automated shades, automated lighting, and automated party and romance settings all controllable via remote and smartphone app.