BumpTop + Win 7 + Tablet = Awesome^2

BumpTop is a downloadable software to organize your deskpot as if it was your physical desk. Just like you can move, throw, stack, and slide books and papers on your desk, you can do the same with your desktop items with BumpTop. Unlike your Windows desktop which mainly consists of icons, BupTop will also be used for quick links to photos and websites.

It has been avialabale for a while using a mouse. But today BumpTop is supporting Windows 7 multitouch features by adding a number of new touch gestures such as scrunching, shoving, zooming, and flicking. It is the perfect way to to intuitively assemble photos, websites, and applications. The coolest thing is that some gestures depend on how you position your finger. Use the side of your finger to shove items but your tip to flick them.

Actually, it is not just like a physical desk. The 3D interface is similar to a room since there are walls all around. You can stick objects on the wall such as a facebook icon and flick photos towards it to upload them onto a profile. There are also a number of simple photo editing features such as cropping using the laso tool. In addition, if you wanted to do some file management, BumpTop shows icons in a similar manner to opening a folder on a Windows desktop.

This might be the perfect user interface for a tablet since it offers much more flexibility than other interfaces developed by tablet manufacturers such as Asus, Toshiba, and Always Innovating.  Most of these only have a few icons of the most common websites you visit such as search engines, email accounts, social networks, and video/photo/music services. With BumpTop, you can manually create those same interfaces, and more. You’ll have a field day playing around with the gestures and showing others the touch craze that is about to descend on us.

See the video after the break.

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