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Watch the Sun Spot

Combine an attractive female evangelist with an innovative product and you will have a very interested audience.

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At the J-Fall 2006 conference of NL-JUG in Ede (that’s in the Netherlands) Angela M. Caicedo and Simon Ritter from Sun Microsystems presented project Sun SPOT (Sun Small Programmable Object Technology). Those Sun Spots are exciting little devices with I/O, LEDs, wireless communication and sensors, which can be programmed directly in Java.

The development kits should start shipping soon and I can’t wait to get one.

Update 2005-10-18: I just noticed today, that the Google Video has some problems with the audio, which is not in sync. If you want, you can also download the original Quicktime video.