Another great day at the conference!

Day two was really about cool ideas from customers at our booths. One of the great things about introducing pervasive computing to the Java Community is listening to the myriad new ideas that developers come up with. Some of my favorites so far:

• A person with an exotic fish collection wants to measure water temperature, salinity, pH, etc., and turn on devices that will maintain optimal conditions of his aquarium.
• A bicyclist wants to use the built-in accelerometer in our Perk kit devices to monitor his pedaling so that he can train at maximum efficiency.
• Giving "You've Got Mail" new meaning, a customer is going to put a light sensor in his mailbox so he can track when the postman delivers.
• John Gage (at right,) the MC of the JavaOne conference, bought a kit and spent nearly an hour at our booth churning out idea after idea. He's on a mission to help reduce needless energy waste and came up with about a dozen cool apps while just standing there (the guy is scary-smart...)
• Someone has a tandem car garage and wants to use a sensor to indicate when his car is perfectly spaced so that he can fit two vehicles at the same time and yet be able to walk between them.

I just have been working the upstairs booth where we're selling our Perk kit (only at the conference.) I'll add to the list when I get a chance to go downstairs and find out the cool ideas coming from the show floor itself!