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Sentilla, AltioLive and LiveScribe: three JavaOne '08 Demos

I finally had a chance to put up three vodcasts I captured of demos from the 2008 JavaOne conference pavilion floor.

Spence Murray, a developer with Sentilla, a company that believes "The World is the Computer," demoed their
new Sentilla developer kit. James Gosling commented on the kits: “If you have a ‘maker’ itch to scratch,
they're selling a cool developer kit.” The kits are among the first ubiquitous computing platforms that are
accessible to a large developer population. Sentilla mote sensors, which got a lot of attention in Gosling's keynote address, were placed throughout Moscone at JavaOne where they tracked arrival times and exits from sessions, room temperatures, carbon dioxide levels, power flows, and more. Sentilla touts these as the world’s smallest computers.

I also talked with Jim Crossley, product manager for Altio, who demo'd the latest version of AltioLive, a
platform for building and deploying rich Internet thin-client applications -- he reminds us that applets are alive and thriving.

I also got to check out LiveScribe's Smartpen - Never Miss a Word - booth demo, a really cool computer in a pen, a device that this writer could put to good use!

If you missed these demos, here's a chance to check 'em out. Would like to know what you think of them too.

Comments

• I’ve read your blog post of the Pulse smartpen and wanted to share some new commercial and demo videos that we just uploaded to the Livescribe YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/nevermissaword

  From now until 12/31/08, you can get 5% off a Pulse smartpen at www.livescribe.com by using SCRIBE5A50 at checkout. Thanks, and enjoy the videos!
  

  Posted by: rxsilas33 on November 20, 2008 at 03:03 PM

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