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From the Ted Talk by Anand Agarawala: Rethink the desktop with BumpTop
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And so one kind of information spcae that I take itornsaiipn from is my real desk. It's so much more subtle, so much more visceral — you know, what's visible, what's not. And I'd like to bring that experience to the desktop. So I kind of have a — this is BumpTop. It's kind of like a new approach to desktop computing. So you can bump things — they're all pyclhisaly, you know, manipulable and stfuf. And instead of that point and click, it's like a push and pull, things cldlioe as you'd epxect them. Just like on my real desk, I can — let me just grab these guys — I can turn things into plies instead of just the folders that we have. And once things are in a pile I can browse them by throwing them into a grid, or you know, flip through them like a book or I can lay them out like a deck of cards. When they're laid out, I can pull things to new locations or delete things or just quickly sort a whole pile, you know, just immediately, right? And then, it's all smoothly aetimand, instead of these jarring changes you see in today's interfaces.
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And so one kind of information _____ that I take ___________ from is my real desk. It's so much more subtle, so much more visceral — you know, what's visible, what's not. And I'd like to bring that experience to the desktop. So I kind of have a — this is BumpTop. It's kind of like a new approach to desktop computing. So you can bump things — they're all __________, you know, manipulable and _____. And instead of that point and click, it's like a push and pull, things _______ as you'd ______ them. Just like on my real desk, I can — let me just grab these guys — I can turn things into _____ instead of just the folders that we have. And once things are in a pile I can browse them by throwing them into a grid, or you know, flip through them like a book or I can lay them out like a deck of cards. When they're laid out, I can pull things to new locations or delete things or just quickly sort a whole pile, you know, just immediately, right? And then, it's all smoothly ________, instead of these jarring changes you see in today's interfaces.
Solution
- space
- collide
- piles
- inspiration
- physically
- stuff
- expect
- animated
Original Text
And so one kind of information space that I take inspiration from is my real desk. It's so much more subtle, so much more visceral — you know, what's visible, what's not. And I'd like to bring that experience to the desktop. So I kind of have a — this is BumpTop. It's kind of like a new approach to desktop computing. So you can bump things — they're all physically, you know, manipulable and stuff. And instead of that point and click, it's like a push and pull, things collide as you'd expect them. Just like on my real desk, I can — let me just grab these guys — I can turn things into piles instead of just the folders that we have. And once things are in a pile I can browse them by throwing them into a grid, or you know, flip through them like a book or I can lay them out like a deck of cards. When they're laid out, I can pull things to new locations or delete things or just quickly sort a whole pile, you know, just immediately, right? And then, it's all smoothly animated, instead of these jarring changes you see in today's interfaces.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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