Linked by weildish on Fri 12th Dec 2008 01:01 UTC
Though this technology isn't incredibly new (the video is dated June of 2006, and OSNews has covered it before), it's still not publicly available; however, it'll supposedly have a beta out for subscribers to test someday. Branded "BumpTop," this new interface builds off of the idea of organization done on traditional desktops-- I mean the wooden, metal, or glass ones. People naturally organize papers and other items into piles that make sense to their own ways of thinking. This kind of organization is limited on operating systems today, but BumpTop makes an old idea new by turning your virtual desktop a little more real.
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This is what I call an utter waste of human resources (and money of course). Did this people realize that what we need are ABSTRACTIONS not "emulation" of real life objects? Computing and science in general work by abstracting things, and putting more useful abstractions on top of that, and so on. What is the advantage of "emulating" what is a mess (in general) in real life such as a good ol' desktop full of papers? I thought computers were tools to simplify the messy aspects of human life.
The 1990s UI desktop is still better than this. Stop wasting the time of smart programmers and architects on useless projects like this. This is just a graphical demo, no more no less.