Reimagining the Future of Your Desktop, in 3D
Bumptop and Shock Desktop 3D provide a way to organize your desktop files and applications in three dimensions.
The desktops treat applications and files almost like they were dice. You can pick one up and toss it across the desktop. When it runs into other files, the files tumble, fall and scatter across the screen utilizing life-like physics simulations.
Gather a bunch of like files together, and you can organize them into stacks and push them aside. Much like your actual desktop, where you can have stacks of paper and books, it actually makes it quite easy to be as organized or disorganized as you’d like. A video demonstration of the invitation only desktop BumpTop is below:
Windows Vista and MacOS X keep pushing the graphic thresholds of their underlying operating system software. First with fancy graphics growing and stretching windows on your screen, and lately with various forms of transparency on windows and docks. It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to see the operating systems stretch increasingly further into this kind of 3d desktop, especially as GPUs get better and grow more prevalent in laptops.
BumpTop is currently in beta and available by invitation only. Shock Desktop 3D is available for download now (Windows only).
[via Lifehacker (twice)]
