THE DREAM IN ACTION

Today I watched a short TED video of an incredible software demonstration from Anand Agarawala, the co-creator of a new desktop interface called BumpTop. He goes on to explain his dissatisfaction with the standard point and click desktop interface that “windows” has instilled into our expectations. “You can sex it up, with a Mac” Anand says, but still its relatively boring.  This new interface does a damn good job at replicated a physical desktop is very impressive. It seems, from the demo that they thought of everything…

In the image below which is a BumpTop desktop, you can see that you can stack, group, spread, tilt, stretch, bundle, heap, mound, pack, or sheaf any of the documents, apps, icons, images, notes, or files. The ability that this software has to integrate the physical reactions that would occur on a real desktop are phenomenal.

Then if you watch the demo (which I would highly recommend) you’ll see that you have the ability to throw, grab, tumble, push, barrage, sort, pull, crumble, or discard any of the documents, apps, icons, images, notes, or files.

Now, why could this new interface be huge huge huge vs. just pretty cool? The combination of multi-touch computing with an interface like this could completely take away the need for a mouse! Imagine if I could just place three fingers or all five on a multi-touch surface and organize my desktop? Nothing will ever completely replicate reality but the combination of a slick interface like BumpTop and slick tech like multi-touch, amazing things could happen!

If you develop this I want 1%  :)

Update: Here is the link to download the beta of a test BumpTop I’m not sure if this is actually BumpTop software or not!

http://www.download.com/Real-Desktop-Light/3000-2340_4-10691227.html