I am seeing many innovations in desktop / interfaces these days. Two weeks ago, I was amazed by Microsoft Surface. And now it’s BumpTop.
From their website:
BumpTop is a fresh and engaging new way to interact with your computer desktop. You can pile and toss documents like on a real desk. Break free from the rigid and mechanical style of standard point-and-click desktops. Interact by pushing, pulling and piling documents with elegant, self revealing gestures. BumpTop’s stunning interface makes clever use of 3D presentation and smooth physics-based animations for an engaging, vivid user experience.
I saw the video of Anand presenting BumpTop at TED Talks, and think this is cool. Wish I could see the preview of the documents on the desktop instead of just icons!
PS: If you have not seen it yet, you should check out Jeff Han’s multitouch screen. iPhone did it one year later, and MS Surface is doing similar!
Have you seen Beryl, my dear? 🙂 Well, it doesn’t work with any PC as we don’t have Graphics Card, but I will show it sometime on ‘my’ lappy 😉