It appears as if (finally) some research surfaces again on how to improve on the decades old 2D desktop metaphor. Sure, there were some shareware experiments where you could 'walk through' your own house with rooms... obviously developed by someone not held back by any experience in the useability department. Now however, there is BumpTop. Nothing more than a video on YouTube and some scientific papers, it looks like something that could work. At the very least it is appealing to myself, as someone who loves paper piles on his desk and loads of icons on his virtual desktop... now if only something like this could be merged with the interaction controller of the Wii, the search capability of the Mac OS X Spotlight and some of the desktop switching of this Novell development. Please, Santa?
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