There's two full video tours of BumpTop, a new 3-D replacement for your Windows desktop, embedded below that will give you a better idea of what it is trying to do. The brave amongst you can simply dive in by downloading a free "lite" version of the software with limited features; the full "Pro" version costs $29. In short, this new desktop lets you interact with your programs and files as if they were physical objects. You can move them around your "desk," stack them on top of one another, group them together, and do interactive tasks, like dropping pictures on Picasa, Flickr, or Facebook to upload the pictures to that platform. There's no version for OS X currently, though the company claims that there will be one in the future.

So far all of the reviews look overwhelmingly positive, although Katherine Boehret from the WSJ notes that the one notable disconnect in BumpTop's approach is that once you leave the BumpTop environment to work in one of your many programs, you're no longer working in the world of "physical objects," which is a slight disconnect; also, computer users are conditioned to spend the majority of their time working in applications doing various tasks in those applications, and it's unclear how much time one really needs to spend moving things around on a virtual desktop.

If you try it out, make sure you let us know what you think of it in the comments below.

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