Put that on a touch screen the size of a desk and I buy one.

That is THE MOST incredible, and usable, GUI advancement I've ever seen. It may not catch on right away but would be great to have as an option. Can't get over how cool it was!

originally I was going to make a shitty comment about how cool the triple money knuckles were, but then I got drawn in by how cool the actual idea is. I think I will feel a little safer on a computer that better reflects my lifestyle.

I'd definitely like to try something like that. I think the main problem with that system (which is the same as the current Windows) is that the files themselves need to have more space dedicated to file contents, and less to file type. Who organizes piles of PDFs? or Word docucuments? Maybe I'm unusual, but I organize by subject, by contents. And yet current iconography for files dedicates 2/3rds of the space to filetype, and leaves title text as the only way of only distinguishing file contents. Tags would help, but we need some real innovation in revealing content and context, not filetype.

Whatta mess.

While it's good to see alternatives to the PARC-derivatives, maybe it's time to move away from the desktop metaphor altogether. Few people use desks this days which are not dominated by their computer. Fewer still make use of vertical files like those that icons continue to depict. These metaphors were great when they served to make operations more understandable to people familiar with the analogue originals, but now that those have been made largely obsolete, perhaps it's time to move on.

I'd take it more seriously if he didn't pronounce it "lasoo". Yes, it's a valid pronounciation, but I've never heard anyone use it that wasn't singing a cowboy song.

Great,, so instead of mhaving computers organize our lives, they screw it up even More... great job!

It's right on the screen, "laso", come on DUDE! BTW, I've seen this before. I can't find it. But I saw a prototype of this tpe of thing. One guy was the programmer. It was for image management, not really any file. But I can see how this video pulled ideas from his (maybe it's the same guy, but it doesn't seem like it). Has anyone else seen it?

I think that would be terribly impractical and annoying to use.

These ideas are nothing short of brilliant. Wasn't Woz working with a group on a similar project? I feel like I just invaded Xerox Parc and stole the mouse. Can we please have this in MacOS 11?

This idea might work better if additional mouse buttons were utilized.

This is great for organizing documents, but I'd prefer to see advancements in viewing windows. I mean, the newest advance in windows management in a mainstream OS is Expose (which I keep forgetting to use).

Wow what a stupid, pointless idea.

DannoHung, Toward the end of the video, they use this same technique on windows and photos.

Great starting point for usability research! Most people do not take it the next step, which is user testing to flush out the most useful concepts to make it simpler. DTownIndy has a great point of projecting it onto a desktop [and use one's hand as the pointer]. It took 10 years for the concepts used in Google's recent "Sketch" acquisition. I still have the video from Siggraph 1996 showing the novel user interface for drawing 3D objects on a computer. Hopefully this will get refined faster.

If you want to be able to see which files you are working with, then a good idea would be to use the MSOffice trick of saving projects as thumbnails. It allows you to see a (tiny) preview of your work. Hope this helps you all.