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BumpTop, the 3D desktop organizing and interface tool has been snapped up by Google. An announcement on the website says that downloads of the free version will end in a week.

"BumpTop (for both Windows and Mac) will no longer be available for sale. Additionally, no updates to the products are planned."

Google's plans for the organizing software are uncertain but the growth in mobile could indicate a direction. The simple fight between Apple and Google for the best interface could also come into play.

BumpTop released the Windows version of BumpTop's 3D desktop in April 2009. Today, BumpTop finally released a version for the Mac. BumpTop turns your desktop into a 3D experience, where documents are organized in stacks and you can pin often-used files, folders or images onto the walls. BumpTop also incorporates a physics simulations, so interactions with your files on the 3D desktop feel extremely lifelike.

Thanks to mobile devices like the iPhone and recent efforts by numerous hardware manufacturers like HP, touch and multi-touch enabled devices are slowly becoming more ubiquitous. While Apple users have the mythical iTablet to look forward to, Windows users didn't really have a similar project to latch on to, except maybe for Microsoft's large and costly Surface table. Now, however, BumpTop has released the latest version of its innovative 3D desktop environment with support for multi-touch gestures.

In 2006, this this video about BumpTop became a hit on YouTube. The video showed a physics driven 3D desktop environment with an innovative menu system. Today, a bit more than two and a half years later, after numerous closed alpha and beta versions, and after adding a number of cool features, BumpTop's developer Anand Agarawala and his team are finally ready to open up BumpTop to everybody (Windows only for now). BumpTop will come in two versions: a free, somewhat restricted version, and a fully-featured 'pro' version.

BumpTop has given us 200 free pro versions to give away to our readers. You can find details about how to claim yours at the end of this post.