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What is Next Nature?

With our attempts to cultivate nature, humankind causes the rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Wild systems, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us.

Pushing the Desktop Metaphor

Pushing the Desktop Metaphor

Despite the metaphor, current virtual desktops (a) have little resemblance to the look or feel of real world desktops (b). Bumptop explores making virtual desktops behave in a more physically realistic manner (c) by adding physics simulation. Objects can be casually dragged and tossed around.

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Bumptop.com (thanks to Jack van Wijk, for the tip)

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  1. =A=

    Neat, but why still working with mousecursors?

  2. Dr Natural

    Why not?

  3. Dr Natural

    Ah don’t mind me asking.. The world is not a desktop: http://www.nextnature.net/research/?p=508