Unfortunately for electronic table fetishists everywhere, you won’t be able to walk into a restaurant, a casino or a retail outlet and play with a Microsoft Surface table until spring of next year.

The platform — which was first announced in May 2007 — has been available internationally for some time, and has been used for purposes as varied as military tactical overviews and in restaurants. It ...

Using a Microsoft Surface table typically has been limited to two dimensional interactions, but researchers now have developed building blocks called Luminos that can be stacked and have their height ...