On a desk, it could be good practice for your arm muscles!
10/GUI is a proposed new user interface paradigm. Created
in 2009 by R. Clayton Miller, it combines multi-touch
input with a new windowing manager.
It splits the touch surface away from the screen, so that
user fatigue is reduced and the users' hands don't
obstruct the display.[1] Instead of placing windows all
over the screen, the windowing manager, Con10uum, uses a
linear paradigm, with multi-touch used to navigate between
and arrange the windows.[2] An area at the right side of
the touch screen brings up a global context menu, and a
similar strip at the left side brings up application-
specific menus.
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10/GUI