PopCap’s hit mobile game, Plants vs. Zombies, has its fair share of fans all over the world, and they have been clamoring for a newer version of the game for quite some time already. Of course, PopCap did oblige this particular group of gamers and Plants vs. Zombies 2 proved to be quite the hit when it finally arrived, achieving 16 million downloads along the way, resulting in it being one of EA’s most successful mobile game launches in the company’s history. The good news does not seem to stop there, however, as PopCap has teased the world with a trailer of sorts which could possibly clue us in to the next update or expansion in the Plants vs. Zombies 2 universe.
The trailer itself depicts what seems to be an ordinary zombie who is standing in the midst of a field (filled with crops, is he on a suicide mission or something?), and when the camera pans out, it shows a rather huge crop circle corn maze. Will this particular title have anything to do with extraterrestrial life, since crop circles tend to be connected to life from outer space in popular culture. All I can say is, we cannot wait soon enough for more information on what could be.
PopCap’s Plants Vs. Zombies 2 Crop Circles Video Teaser original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Researchers over at Microsoft such as Andy Wilson have recently invited others folk including the head of Information and Computing Sciences department at SRI, Bill Mark, in order to kick off a discussion on the future of keyboards – or at the very least, the physical QWERTY keyboard that we have all come to know, love, and use on a daily basis. The general consensus among this particular group? Computer keyboards as we know them probably would not have much of a future. This particular group of like minded people claim that newer technologies, including touchscreen displays as well as eye tracking devices will replace the keyboard for most people sometime down the future, although as to the exact time period where that moment will arrive remains to be seen.
Have you moved on from the broom to the vacuum cleaner in order to keep your humble abode nice and clean? If you have answered in the affirmative, then you might have also “graduated” to a robotic vacuum cleaner, where the Roomba brand from iRobot would definitely be something that most people are familiar with. What then, is the next evolutionary step for a robotic vacuum cleaner like the Roomba? Juan Lee’s take on the next generation of robotic vacuum cleaners would come in the form of gel-based robot balls.
There are plenty of Kickstarter projects that have made quite a name for themselves over the months and past year, but here is a Kickstarter project that the gaming community will fall for. Keiji Inafune, a household name for those who are huge fans of the original Megaman as he is the game’s co-designer, in addition to producing the Dead Rising series as well as numerous Resident Evil titles, intends to return to his roots. Inafune announced at PAX over the weekend that he will be working on a spanking new 2D action shooter, calling it 
Not all eReaders are created equal – and the EnerGenie ePP2 eReader is one of the more special ones out there, being a 9.7” device that has been specially positioned itself as an ePaper printer. This is definitely the device for all of you who want to take the green and eco-friendly route, where the EnerGenie ePP2 eReader will be plugged into the PC, and it will register itself as a printer. Through this particular method, you are able to “print” documents directly to the eReader, which is in a similar manner as to how you use a virtual printer that allows you to save a document as a PDF on your desktop.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 will be one device that is guaranteed to excite millions of Samsung fanboys all over the world, and it just goes to show how fast time flies as it felt like just yesterday when the Galaxy Note 2 was revealed to the masses with great fanfare. Having said that, the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 has already appeared over in the Global Certification Forum under the model number SM-N9005, and it is interesting to note that it was sometime in August that a published report actually listed this particular version as the global model of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 that will support LTE connectivity, while being accompanied by 3GB RAM, which should be more than enough processing muscle to handle all sorts of multi-tasking on your portable device.
The world of tablets is an interesting one for sure, and we have heard our fair share of rumors about Apple about to unleash a new iPhone and possibly even a new and refreshed iPad later this month. Chinese manufacturer XiaoMi has been reported to be working on a new tablet that is known as the ZiMi tablet. Is it just me, or do the folks over at XiaoMi like to mix uppercase and lowercase characters in their product names? Ah well, a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet, right?
