I was sent an interesting link this morning by Simon that I think you guys will find quite interesting too (especially those of you with a passion for human/computer interaction cough Dan cough).

Introducing the BumpTop 3D Desktop, a crazy new way of interacting with your machine and handling documents/files. Check out the following YouTube vid to see how it works:

Pretty groovey hey! Of course, this looks like it was designed to work moreso with hand-held or tablet PCs (the “pressure” gestures are a bit of a give-away there), but it’d be cool to see something like this on a desktop machine.

I do wonder if this kind of mechanism would be more intuitive to a user though. While it looks cool and makes a bit of sense (based on the description), I think using it would be slow compared to the conventional desktop. What do you think?