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Cool Websites and Tools [May 18th 2012]

Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. Most of the listed websites are FREE or come with a decent free account option. If you want to have similar cool website round-ups delivered to your daily email, subscribe here. Add Your Website Here!   WatchDocumentary – Watching documentaries is always a fun and educational way of passing your time. But for a documentary film to be interesting, it must be relevant to your topic of interest. Read more...

3D Printer Trading Cards (From the Future!): Mike’s ORD-ish Printer

Mike Hatalski will be exhibiting his “ORD-ish Bot” 3D Printer at the Maker Faire this weekend. Mike describes how he got into printer building: I was about to start ordering the parts for a MendelMax build when I saw a posting by Bard Dring about a prototype printer he built using MakerSlide. I was lucky enough to be able to get my hands on some MakerSlide and build my own ORD Bot. Technically it’s an ORD-ish bot because I sourced/machined the parts/kit myself. Read more...

ICBMs Blowing Up, Tenacious D Rocking Out, and a Muppet Triple Treat [Video]

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FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012

We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol' Federal Communications Commission's site. Since we couldn't possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there individually, we've gathered up an exhaustive listing of every phone and / or tablet getting the stamp of approval over the last week. Read more...

11 Best Questions & Contest Winners [MakeUseOf Answers]

Every Friday MakeUseOf Answers honors the Best Answer of the Week to reward the skills and time required to solve tough questions. Read more...

XBee-enabled SumoBots Appearing at Maker Faire

Rob Faludi, author of Building Wireless Sensor Networks, is bringing some very cool bots to Digi’s Maker Faire Bay Area Booth: Say hello to Troy and Abed! They’re Digi International’s brand-new XBee-enabled SumoBots and they’re ready to begin training for their debut at Bay Area Maker Faire 2012. Read more...

Hollywood Movie Marketing Makes For a Great Use of This Abandoned Paris Metro Station [Video]

Station Saint-Martin along Paris's Metro Line 8 & 9 was closed in 1939, at the start of WWII, and although reopened once the war had ended, the station was ultimately shutter for good due its close proximity (100m) to another Metro station. Read more...

Microsoft patent application outlines system to recommend and transfer apps across devices

Ready for your latest tour through the dense and meandering wording of patent applications? Well, dig in, because it's Microsoft's turn to confuse lawyers the world over with this latest USPTO doc, submitted in November of 2010. The filing describes a computer-based program that would, essentially, analyze a primary device's installed applications, cross-reference it with a different device and then either migrate that software batch or suggest similar apps to download on a secondary unit. Read more...

Silicon Micro ST1080 glasses are augmented reality now

If you can’t want for Google’s Project Glass, these beauties will give you your fix, but they’re not exactly comparable. A company called Silicon Micro wants to get on the augmented reality game before Google does. Project Glass is an ambitious idea that will most likely define the augmented reality industry. It’s a very niche market right now but Google wants to bring it to the mainstream. Read more...

This Week's Top Web Comedy Video: Internet Troll [Humor]

As much as we all complain about trolls, have you ever really taken the time to get to know one? Or, better yet, to get to know Patton Oswalt's hilarious rendition of real-life, under-the-bridge type internet trolldom? You should! You can: More » Read more...

Ebay a Hassle? Check Out This Platform for Secondhand Fashion

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Threadflip Quick Pitch: Buy and sell pre-owned clothing and accessories. Genius Idea: More convenient and personal than selling on eBay. Read more...

Trying on a Pair of LED Shades

Here’s Macetech’s prototype for a cool pair of LED shades! I can’t wait to get my own pair. It’s a wearable Arduino, so you can hack it to do whatever you want. Garrett Mace says it will be a while before I can buy my own. Read more...

Posting Pictures of Her Terminally Ill Son Got Grieving Mother Banned from Facebook [Facebook]

The day Grayson James Walker was born, his parents—Heather and Patrick Walker, of Memphis, Tennessee—knew their time with him would be brief. Grayson had been diagnosed in utero with a rare neural tube birth defect called Anencephaly, in which a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull. Read more...

English Premier League: The Social Media Season

The English Premier League is arguably the world’s most popular sports organization, and this season saw explosive growth off the pitch in the realm of social media. Manchester City snagged its first English title in 44 years last weekend to cap off another dramatic EPL season. To recap how the league developed digitally this year, Mashable hunted down some stats. We also consulted Sean Walsh, whose blog Digital Football is a leading source on the intersection between English soccer and social media. Read more...

7 Apps That Every Hockey Fan Needs To Get Ready For The Stanley Cup [iOS]

I am a huge hockey fan. I have been playing hockey for well over 15 years, and watching it on TV for even longer than that. The Stanley Cup Playoffs are nearing their end, and watching these entire hockey playoffs made me think about what might be some cool and useful applications on iOS for hockey lovers. So, I dug deep in the App Store and found some of the coolest apps. No matter what kind of hockey related app you are looking for, chances are great that this list will have something for you. Read more...

Epic Mickey 2 gets behind-the-scenes video

If you were curious about what the sequel to Disney’s captivating dark-sided Mickey Mouse game will be like, you’re in luck. The newest video for Epic Mickey 2 takes players behind-the-scenes and shows them waht they can expect when the intoxicating mix of cute and innocent Disney characters meets a dark, mysterious world. Epic Mickey was one of the big holiday titles of 2010, and at the time everyone looked at it as a Wii exclusive. Read more...

Hey Space Geeks: Help This Guy Build a Real Starship Enterprise [VIDEO]

There are those who look up at the stars and decide to become astronomers, while others want to be astronauts. Then there are those who want to build the Starship Enterprise. That’s right, a guy known only as BTE Dan (stands for Build the Enterprise) believes a replica of the iconic Star Trek spacecraft can be built to scale within the next 20 years. He’s even started a website — BuildTheEnterprise.org — to rally support for the cause. Read more...

Amazon shops Kindle Fire home screen to advertisers

Amazon is reportedly meeting with advertisers to pitch the idea of welcome screen ads on its popular Kindle Fire tablet. The retail giant is asking $600,000 for prime placement on the slate, according to a report from AdAge. Amazon currently offers its entire range of Kindle eReaders with advertisements that appear on the devices’ screen savers. Read more...

Facebook’s IPO: Who Got Rich

Mark Zuckerberg Zuck, who owns 503.6 million shares, is now worth $19.14 billion, though his personal fortune surpassed the $20 billion mark several times.Click here to view this gallery.OK, so Facebook’s IPO may have seemed like a lot of sound and fury for 23 cents, but there will still doubtlessly be some celebrating in Menlo Park Friday night. That’s because a lot of Facebookers got fabulously rich on Friday. Read more...

Reminder: SpaceX launch tomorrow. Watch it live!

There isn’t a hacker out there that isn’t interested at least a little bit in the prospect of building a mission specific rocket to explode someone off the face of the planet… without killing them. We got a tiny taste of what is coming when they let us watch their engine test a few weeks ago. Tomorrow, May 19th, they are going to broadcast a launch live! You can watch it on their site beginning at 1:15 AM pacific. Read more...

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