Reinvent Your Desktop in 20 Minutes or Less!
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
BumpTop has released an amazing new way to transform your Window’s desktop into a true-to-life 3D, gesture-based desktop complete with a physics engine, widgets and social networking. The idea is to make your computer desktop be more like your real desktop… only computer enhanced. You can get a fully functional but limited use version for free or pay $30 for the real deal. The file is 10 Megs.
BumpTop is geared much more for how minds work and therefore may be a big step forward in the cognitive design of PC interfaces. To see this clearly watch a three minute YouTube demo on Desktop Zen.
Although optimized for touch-screen technology and Windows 7, I was able to see immediate high-cognitive impact effects on my point-and-click machine. It will be interesting to see how people use this – it could reveal a lot about how with think about information. They have half a million downloads so far.
Thanks to Gina for pointing this out and sharing a link to a Fast Company blog post on BumpTop.
I’ve included some example desktops on the next page.
