BumpTop 3D Desktop Adds Multi-Touch, Gestures

Last time we checked on BumpTop, it was just a cool three-dimensional overlay for your desktop. Now, BumpTop is upping the coolness ante with multi-touch support. BumpTop’s gesture support goes far beyond the simple pinch-to-zoom and scroll-to-slide that iPhone users have grown accustomed to. You can also lasso groups of icons by tracing a finger around them, push items by dragging your finger over them and crop photos with a few taps of the finger.

Most impressive, though, are the functions that help you manage BumpTop’s 3D piles. By scrunching four fingers over a few scattered icons, they’ll arrange neatly into a pile. Want to see what’s going on in another stack? Swipe two fingers across it to fan the documents across your desktop.

Now, there are a couple catches: First, multi-touch gestures are only supported with BumpTop Pro, which costs $29. Also, you’ll need Windows 7 and, of course, a PC with a touch screen. On that front, we should start seeing more touch screen PCs soon, as Windows 7 adds new multi-touch support, making the feature more attractive to computer manufacturers. For now, check out the free version of BumpTop and see if it’s worth getting excited about in the first place. [via TechCrunch]