In the beginning there was the desk. Then came shelves, separators, guards, cups, drawers and piles of crap. Do you want the same thing on your computer desktop? If you answered Hell Yeah! then BumpTop is the choice for you. Created by Anand Agarawala this is a unique and very refreshingly innovative design. BumpTop takes “out of the box” thinking to a whole new level. If you thought the Mac OSX was revolutionary you obviously have not seen BumpTop.

From TED 2007 conference … a fresh user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3D extreme. In this physics-driven universe, important files finally get the weight they deserve via an oddly satisfying resizing feature, and the drudgery of file organization becomes a freewheeling playground full of crumpled documents and clipping-covered “walls.”

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How Much Do You See Your Desktop?

BumpTop with its Lasso’n'Cross and LassoMenu movements is sure to captivate every computer user. But think about how much time do you actually spend looking at your computer desktop. If you are anything like me you have a ton of different application windows open all the time which covers up most of the desktop. Only on rare occasions when you have just started the computer do you actually see the background and go aahh!! … so that is what my computer desktop background picture looks like.

Play Hide & Seek With Your Files

Organizing files into piles on the computer desktop is a direct extension of how people organize their actual desktops. But it is going to be extremely difficult to locate the all important attachment that you placed in one of the 15 piles with your boss breathing down your neck. Even though it might be enjoyable to look for stuff it will undoubtedly take you more time to pull up the text configuration file because you will stop and tilt the pile over or play dominoes.

Just Another Fun Application

Bumptop is surely fun to play with and I am sure when it comes out I will be addicted to it for some time. But ultimately it is just a window decoration and people will simply go back to doing their day to day work rather than “bump” the pdf on the desktop against the excel or word doc or jpeg or avi files.

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