perfidy

This would be really cool if combined with this. The good people who invented the BumpTop prototype are really on to something here. We've got these nifty machines. They've got dedicated graphics cards capable of rendering vast combats in realtime blooderific three-d. Hell, graphics cards are themselves more powerful than whole computers of times past. But there they sit, idly running zeros and ones through their bored metaphorical fingers, waiting for you, the user, to fire up Halo again. Why not get some real value from your Radeon, and have it run your desktop?

Now, I dig new technological gimcrackery as much as the next guy. I dig it whether it has any actual utility, or if like a butterfly it makes the world a more beautiful place just by being in it. But this, I think, has real use. The basic idea of the desktop gui has changed not at all really since the eggheads at Xerox PARC first dreamed it up over a quarter century ago. You've got a desk. And icons. And a mouse pointer. Oh, sure, we can add wallpaper. And we can change the icons. But no real change. BumpTop would really improve the utility of the desktop. I want one, and I want one badly. And as I mentioned right at the beginning, this interface would be perfectly suited to the multi-touch display - combine the two, and you'd have a nearly ideal visual interface for your 'puter.