The Settlers of Catan has appeared in many forms since its first publication in Germany as a table top board game back in 1995.

There are now versions for the iPhone, BlackBerry, Xbox 360 (via XBLA), PS3, PC and more. And there are expansions...

Sony is about to take on the Microsoft Surface with a new offering of their own that is due out in June.

The atracTable, first seen and demoed at Vision 2009 in Stuttgart last year, will be released at the beginning of June according to the...

Microsoft Research is still upgrading its Surface product, despite there being relatively few of them in the wild as yet. This time around, the company has added the ability to draw on Surface with an infra-red pen, as you can see in the video above.

Interestingly,...

Microsoft has been demonstrating some interesting technology at its annual employees-only TechFest event. Microsoft's Surface technology is great, but it's also large, expensive and a little unwieldy. Allow Mobile Surface to step into the ring instead.

It...

We've all seen the Microsoft Surface and been told how it will change the way shops and even banks let us interact with technology, but you've probably never seen one that's over 25ft long?

Kodak, keen to show off the latest key selling points...

At the Vision 2009 conference, in Stuttgart, Sony has shown off a multitouch surface display called the Atractable that's rather like the Microsoft Surface controller,which offers coffee table computing.

The system has been developed between...

A team of students at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a Dungeons & Dragons application for Microsoft Surface. It's a little like a printed out map, but completely interactive and able to recognise items placed on top.

It can then calculate...

Microsoft has demoed a series of new technologies, that could easily become part of the next Microsoft Surface, at a behind-the-scenes day at its Research Lab in Cambridge.

Although Microsoft Research admits it has no control over whether...

What's claiming to be the first commercially available multitouch screen interactive tabletop - the X-Desk - has launched in the UK.

The "first" claim is a little off considering Microsoft's "coffee-table computer" the Surface, announced...

Microsoft has hinted that it could make bigger screen sized versions of its interactive coffee table, the Microsoft Surface in the future.

In a candid chat with Pocket-lint at the UK launch of the £8500 device that promises to revolutionise...

Microsoft is working on the next-generation version of its "Surface" coffee table computer, it's been revealed.

Several developers at the US South by Southwest Festival have informed the BBC that a new model of the Surface is 2 to 3 years...

Microsoft has announced that its touchscreen "Surface" computer will now be available in 12 "select" markets in EMEA.

Previously only available in the US and Canada, the Surface is now also available in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany,...

Microsoft Research has revealed its "SecondLight" technology, new touch-related tech that works in a similar way to the company's "Surface" touchscreen "coffee table" computer.

As well as supporting multitouch, SecondLight can detect gestures...

The Microsoft Surface has hit the UK, well one has anyway, and Pocket-lint was on hand to give it a spin.

The interactive coffee table, which weighs 300lbs, is being used by London design agency Splendid to show retailers what the touchy...

The software developer kit for the Surface tabletop computer will be made available to those attending Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference at the end of the month, reports CNet.

"Hear about the unique attributes of Microsoft Surface...