BumpTop™ Prototype

Keepin’ it Real: Pushing the Desktop Metaphor with Physics, Piles and the Pen.

Researchers and developers are always trying to reinvent the desktop, taking it in multiple directions more similar to real life, like this BumpTop, or more similar to a Virtual Reality type desktop that you see in the movies.

The BumpTop structures files and programs as 3d cards with weight that you can shuffle around and move about the desktop. You can throw a bunch of similar cards on a pile to represent stuff you’ll get to later, or stack them neatly to represent stuff you’ve already seen.