Dancing RS Media Robots

The JavaOne keynote of today - the last day of JavaOne - contained a lot of great demos of what is achievable with Java.

Cool demos of BD-J (BlueRay Disc Java) enabled BlueRay titles with interactive trivia games talking to your friends over the internet and wikipedia-like learning content on top of the live BlueRay movie.

Nice demos of Ricoh's Java-enabled business printers acting as proxies and frontends for Glassfish-driven backends communicating with Bluetooth-enabled camera-phones and printing directly from the Java-driven screen on the printer after authenticating the user via JavaCard-based smartcards.

Extraordinary cool demos of Tor Norbye's Netbeans 6.0 plugins for doing Ruby/Rails applications communicating with existing backend classes coded in Java.

Amazing demos of DLight/Dtrace - plugins for Sun Studio (soon also netbeans), that lests a developer see the "DNA", "bloodpressure" and other stuff to characterize the inner workings of a (working or buggy) application in real time (will soon be available online, perhaps on this link, but right now it describes a very old version).

Great demo of the worlds fastest industrial computer, running on real time Java (RTJ), created by ABB with help from bright guys from Lund University in Sweden (it measures a lot of things once every millisecond, and is able to accellerate its swivelling arm at 10 G's!).

The funniest thing though, was the dancing RS Media (Robosapien 2+) robots from Wowwee. I used my Nokia N95 to record the show (in quite low quality because of my now limited amount of available Flash RAM on the microSD card), and uploaded it for you guys to enjoy, here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-YJMQGVmU

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