Bumptop - improving the desktop metaphor?

I thought that I'd post this video on [i] Stevieboy. It's been on my website for a while so I'm moving it over to the blog now that it's up and running. I just keep watching the video as it looks so natural to interact with and gets a wonderful reception from the audience. I found this while researching interaction styles for my dissertation and was just so impressed.

The computer desktop as a metaphor has been around for a good few years now and it's something that we all have got used to. This is surely because it works? Or if you watch the video:

"...[the desktop] is the same old crap that we've had for the last 30 years!"

BumpTop is set to change this with a new engaging way to interact with our beloved (loathed?) computers. It also uses pie menus which you can find out more about from Don Hopkins' website. BumpTop also has intuitive physics behind it with larger objects being heavier than smaller ones - seems so obvious now doesn't it?

Anyway, enough of my waffle - just watch BumpTop's creator
Anand Agarawala show you...



If you're having trouble viewing the video, you can also watch it here.