This guy built Thor's hammer using an electromagnet and fingerprint sensor
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#QNEB)
Mjilnir is real - or at least, as real as you can call a hammer which only works on metal surfaces
Arthur C Clarke's third law of prediction states that: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." So it looks like kitchen table hardware hacking is now sufficiently advanced, because the magic hammer wielded by Marvel's Thor is now real.
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