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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bumptop is a cool technology demo, but in the end it just piles new problems on top of this old desktop metaphor. I find that, for my personal use, throwing the baby with the bathwater [1] is much more efficient than dealing with the mess of a desktop metaphor.
[1]: http://open-source.ecchi.ca/?voir=articles/killing_the_desktop