Office Fantasy - Desktop Of The Future


	Office Fantasy - Desktop Of The Future

Silkweaver

7-21-2008 8:49 PM

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software, desktop, design

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7-22-2008 4:09 AM

krke1

Strange design.

7-22-2008 7:03 AM

ballistick

Its called Bumptop and its been around for ages, goto www.ted.com and type bumptop in the search field.

It is pretty cool, but pretty damn useless.

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