Amazing video of a pen-enabled 3D desktop: BumpTop
Chris Leckness found a 3D desktop feature over at TechEBlog yesterday and I had already seen two of the three they featured. What I hadn’t seen before was the prototype from BumpTop. There’s an amazing video of this environment that uses a digital pen to move and manipulate documents. BumpTop incorporates real world physics, for example: when you push a folder across the desk and it bumps other folders, they move based on their size and placement.
It’s simply something you have to see as it most resembles a real-world desktop better than any implementation I’ve seen prior. The downside is: I have a very messy desk, so I’d expect my BumpTop desk to be just as messy now. ;)
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That was presented by Anand Agarawala in the TED conference (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) as reported by David Pogue, a NY Times technology columnist. The link to his (very interesting and quite funny) blog is:
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/
and the article is found mid-page, just bellow the “multi”-touchscreen demonstration.
Nico
My wife already complains about the piles on my messy desk. So, now she’ll be able to gripe about the piles on my computer desktop too ;-P
Why would I want my PC’s desktop to be as messy as my office? If you’re that disorganized with your files, just dump them in one big folder and use desktop search.