One of the stars of the show at TED in Monterey this week: a new metaphor for computer desktops from a student at the university of Toronto. The unfortunately-named Bumptop allows users to scoop up documents, pile them in a corner, flip through them to find one that's buried. In short, it's a computer desktop even messier than your current one. After the jump, a video clip of the user interface in action.

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