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This is the BumpTop Prototype by Anand Agarawala and Ravin Balakrishnan. Its basically an interactive interface that takes on attributes you'd find in the real world. Watch the videos on their website and you'll get a better explanation. Just watching the first couple of minutes and you'll get a good feel of things. Essentially, real world desks are piled with stuff, documents and files that are in a mess but orderly according to the user. The computer desktops don't have quite the same feel at all and there's this loss of a certained ordered chaos. Often, the most creative minds also tend to be rather messy people. So its possible that interfaces like this might encourage a way of working which has a human touch and hence promote a more creative outlook. I know I'd use this.

Off Josh Spear.