Switched has a new home! Huffpost Tech.

Click here to visit the new home of Switched!

Hot on HuffPost Tech:

See More Stories
AOL Tech

The Daily Engadget: McDonald's 'McCharge,' iPods to Get Cameras?

by Chad Mumm on July 6, 2009 at 11:03 AM


Our friends over at Engadget obsessively cover everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics, which is why we compile this daily roundup of their top stuff. For more details on any of these stories, click on the Engadget links in each story below.


McDonald's Getting ChargePoint Station for Electric Vehicles
A new McDonald's restaurant in Cary, North Carolina will open next Tuesday -- equipped with NovaCharge ChargePoint electric vehicle charging stations. Restaurant-goers can help the world by saving gas, while helping to curb overpopulation by scarfing down artery-clogging Big Macs. We can see Mother Earth smiling.

iPods Getting Cameras?
Expect the next-gen iPod to render useless yet another gadget taking up your pocket space; the evidence is piling up that your next iPod will sport a camera. Recently, iPod Nano cases with camera holes have been popping up on the 'tubes, and TechCrunch is reporting that Apple recently ordered a large number of cameras like the ones used in the iPhone 3GS.

Viliv x70 Goes Under the Knife
Along with cheap and small netbooks, MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) have got to be the hottest hardware in tech right now. Sure, the iPod touch pretty much invented the category, but there are plenty of newcomers to drool over; take, for example, the Viliv x70. The folks over at JkkMobile have gotten intrepid and ripped an x70 apart to satisfy your craving for gadget-innards. To top things off, they've posted a full (27-minute!) review of the yet-to-be-released device.

Researchers Tracking Bluetooth at Rock Festival
Researchers at Belgium's University of Ghent deployed more than 30 Bluetooth scanners to track cell phones at this year's Rock Werchter music festival. Fear not, intoxicated revelers; there's no law enforcement involvement in this experiment. The team was looking to track festival-goers' movements in order to model their behavior -- likely to better leverage retail possibilities and, less likely, dancing opportunities.

Carbon Rings Increases Memory Density
Another day, another extremely cool new technology for data storage. German scientists are shrinking the space needed for data drives -- and dramatically increasing memory density -- by rearranging atoms using carbon rings. It's all very high tech, but it could be the next giant leap in storage technology.

Tags: thedailyengadget, top

Add your comments

Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.

When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password.

To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br /> tags.

HuffPost AOL Social News Most Popular