Vendors are continuing to find innovative uses for campus cards and other advanced technologies in places as seemingly mundane as the dormitory laundry room. The latest wrinkle: washers and dryers that are not only activated by the student’s campus card – that not only automatically inject the proper amount of detergent and fabric softener – but that actually can be linked to the Internet so students don’t waste time trekking to the laundry room only to find all the washers full. They can check the status of each machine in advance, in real-time via the web.