Hasta La Gadget!

An European research consortium that is made up of Spanish, French, Italian and German universities and companies are currently looking into developing what they call the VineRobot, which will be an unmanned robot that comes with a slew of non-invasive advanced sensors and artificial intelligence systems in order to help us humans better manage our vineyards. The VineRobot will hopefully be able to move around, gathering vital statistics and deliver reliable, fast and objective information on the state of the vineyards, ranging from the likes of vegetative development, water status, production and grape composition.

One of the biggest advantages of this particular project would be the availability of a large quantity of automatically obtained data, and just about any user can interpret such data without having to go through a really steep and serious learning curve. Not only that, all of the information gathered can be transmitted wirelessly, now how about that?

Project researcher Javier Tardaguila shared, “Robotics and precision agriculture provide producers with powerful tools in order to improve the competitiveness of their farms. Robots like the one we are developing will not substitute the vine grower, but will facilitate their work, so they can avoid the hardest jobs in field. It has several advantages including the ability to predict grape production or its degree of ripeness in order to immediately assess its quality without touching it.”

VineRobot Project Could Lead To Better Wine , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

It seems that an LG executive was caught saying that their upcoming flagship device, the LG G4, will not likely be introduced at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, simply because the company would want to “spend more time perfecting the new phone”. Well, that is definitely not the finished article, so to speak, since additional information has arrived at our doorstep, where gleaning LG’s conference call with investors over the recent quarterly earnings report does seem to point as though LG Mobile is preparing themselves to make a major product announcement later in the second quarter of this year. No prizes for guessing what this major product announcement will be – since LG does not roll out tablets like Samsung does, chances are we would see the successor to the LG G3, which would be aptly known as the LG G4, announced in Q2 this year.

The LG executive did mention that where the LG G4 is concerned, “design will continue to differentiate in terms of strategy,” which opens up the door to another question – is he pointing to perhaps the rearrangement of the physical keys on the handset, or could the end user be looking at a different kind of material used to build the LG G4? As usual, with all rumors and speculation, only time will be able to tell in the long run, so sit tight, and in the mean time, do take what you have read with a pinch of salt – just so that you do not set yourself up with disappointment eventually.

LG G4 To Roll Out In Q2 (Rumor) , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

Not all Samsung users are crazy about TouchWiz. Like many other Android OEMs Samsung too slaps on its custom skin on top of the operating system. It brings a unique look and feel to the company’s devices as well as some exclusive features. However as a result the software on these devices can be heavy and bloated which ultimately reflects badly on the user experience. A report published today claims that Samsung is going to trim the fat off of TouchWiz and that its diet plan for the custom skin is very strict.

We saw a hint of this back when the Galaxy S5 was announced last year. Samsung removed some non-essential TouchWiz features and apps which were then made downloadable so users could still get them if they wanted.

Sammobile reports today that Samsung is removing “every add-on feature” which can be downloaded separately as an app. This would go a long way in making TouchWiz more lean and optimized.

The report doesn’t say which features and apps will be removed and which will remain but other reports suggest that Samsung wants to optimize the software to near Nexus levels.

Only removing bloatware from the software isn’t going to do much for the user experience even though its a good start. Samsung will also have to make improvements to the underlying code and optimize TouchWiz as a whole so that users can really take advantage of the much leaner custom Android skin.

Samsung Has A Strict Diet Plan For TouchWiz , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

When one talks about Porsche, one would definitely think of the iconic 911 supercar, which is not only compact, but packs quite a punch when it is driven. Well, over the years, Porsche has also moved on to explore other kinds of rides, including 4-wheel drives starting with the Cayenne, and they also have the extremely luxurious Panamera. Well, it is close to four years that rumors have been going around concerning a model known as the Porsche Pajun – and it looks like all that time waiting is about to bear some “fruit” at last.

Word on the street has it that Porsche is working on launching what they would call the Pajun (which is shorthand for Panamera Junior, similar to how the Macan project was previously known as the Cajun), and the main draw for the Pajun? It would be a 100% electric vehicle, now how about that?

Chances are the Pajun (which would most probably be called something else when released) will be different enough to stand out from the likes of other four-door rides, although it should be in the class size of that of the Mercedes E-Class, BMW 5 Series, and Audi A6. The thing is, will Tesla be directly affected in this market segment if the Pajun were to take off in a big way?

Porsche Pajun Could Be A Major Tesla Rival , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

A few months back Nokia announced a new tablet called N1. It said that this tablet would only be sold in China. When the first batch was released it sold out within minutes. This batch consisted of 20,000 units. Since then Nokia has released two more batches, and even though it didn’t say how many units were in those batches, both of them were sold out quickly as well. The one that was put up for sale today met a similar fate.

It looks like customers in China really like Nokia’s new tablet. The company’s fourth batch of the Nokia N1 tablet was sold out soon after it was made available. This has now pushed the release date for the next batch to February 26th.

It’s easy to understand why customers are quickly picking up Nokia N1 units. The Nokia brand itself has a long history with Chinese customers and the N1 has very impressive specifications for its price.

The tablet has an 2.3GHz quadcore processor Intel Atom Z3580 processor with 2GB RAM and 32GB of onboard storage. It has a 7.9-inch IPS display with 1,536×2,048 pixel resolution with 324 pixels per inch.

All of this is packed into a finely built package that costs 1,599CNY or just over $250. Nokia hasn’t said if the N1 will ever make it out of China.

Nokia N1 Doing Extremely Well In China , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.