While I was attending the Java Posse Roundup 2009 I was able to give a 5-minute Lightning Talk about Flex. There are now so many amazing things to show with Flex that it's really hard to narrow down what will be the most compelling. In [past years][1] I showed more code and useful things. But this year I wanted to just make people's jaws drop.

First I showed the [Tour de Flex][2] application to encourage all of the attendees to go explore some great Flex components on their own. I also wanted to show off the new 3D APIs in Flash Player 10 so I showed Justin Everett Church's [Cloth Demo][3]. Then I showed a prototype of an Adobe AIR based catalog for the Anthropologie women's clothing store.

At the end I really wanted to WOW everyone so I showed some of the [FLARToolkit][4] [demos][5] followed by a custom application that I built using the FLARToolkit. The application I built scrolls up and down in a datagrid using the position of a marker which is being captured by the web cam. It's hard to explain so you will just have to check out the video. Let me know what you think.

 [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXUaM9CADiU&feature=channel_page
 [2]: http://flex.org/tour
 [3]: http://justin.everett-church.com/fp10demos/cloth.html
 [4]: http://www.libspark.org/wiki/saqoosha/FLARToolKit/en
 [5]: http://flash.tarotaro.org/blog/