/. reported news of a new interface from google labs that was eventually took off within hours of it becoming public.
Chikai Ohazama with google started this as a fun filled way to learn dhtml and javascript, and the result was put up on google lab page. but since then it has disappeared from the pages, but the caches and mirrors still have the working version. mirror here.
why was it pulled off? maybe its related to the ‘genie’ effect from apple? maybe that drove the legal eagles at google to pull it off.
whatever the reason, it was a cool concept and effect applied to access various google services.