Bumptop Prototype
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BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.
Our ideas about BumpTop, physically-based casual interfaces and pen-centric interactions are outlined in the below CHI paper and Masters thesis. * Anand Agarawala, Ravin Balakrishnan. (2006).
At this point I’d have to say that spotlight and smart folders are the best wayh to find and organize files. We have to see what Vista comes out with in the future but I don’t think they’ll have anything better than what we’ve see of Leopard’s updated spotlight that Gizmodo posted.
This is probably a look into the future and what may happen in the future. But still years away from being in home computers. But if anyone picks it up, it won’t be Microsoft. It’ll probably go the way of konfabulator.
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