I'm not impressed. Let me know when they can do it in a thin flexible plastic overlay that I can place on any table or desk. As it is it will just be a novelty item that you see in Vegas or Disneyland. And not even a very original novelty at that.
As for who stole what from whom, lest you forget, they showed exactly this sort of interface on the Minority Report long before the iPhone or this Smart Surface. And where did Minority Report get the ideas? Well Hollywood sure as hell didn't come up with such revolutionary ideas themselves. They got them from university researchers who've been researching how best to do interfaces like this for years. The same folks from whom Apple got the ideas for the GUI and the mouse.
As for who stole what from whom, lest you forget, they showed exactly this sort of interface on the Minority Report long before the iPhone or this Smart Surface. And where did Minority Report get the ideas? Well Hollywood sure as hell didn't come up with such revolutionary ideas themselves. They got them from university researchers who've been researching how best to do interfaces like this for years. The same folks from whom Apple got the ideas for the GUI and the mouse.