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. 
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.