It's no secret that some of the most incredible inventions of mankind were born directly or indirectly from science fiction, including submarines based on Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and video calls from "Star Trek" - now, an engineer on YouTube has managed a fantastic new feat: recreating Thor's hammer!
While Mjölnir, Thor's hammer, came into prominence hundreds of years ago through Norse mythology, these days it's mostly recognized as being the weapon of choice of Marvel Comics superhero Thor, played by Australian actor Chris Hemsworth on the big screen, and the movie version was the one recently recreated for science purposes.
According to CNET, an electrical engineer by the name of Allen Pan, whose YouTube name is Sufficiently Advanced, decided to recreate Thor's hammer not only in shape and size, but also in one of its most magical and particular details: in comic book mythology, only Thor is "worthy" of lifting it (although recently also Paul Bettany's The Vision), a feat also duplicated by Pan's version.
As The Guardian reports, to create the Thor's hammer effect, Pan used magnets: his own real-life Mjölnir works on four 12-volt acid batteries that are later connected to an Arduino Pro Mini controller connected to an on-off switch that's activated by using his own fingerprints - which, of course, means only he can lift his invention when it's activated.
In other words, he recreated the magic of Thor's hammer with science!
Of course, this being the age of the viral video, Pan not only documented the making of his invention but, as Express reports, also took to the streets to test it out, showing off how it works to people around him to impress him with his incredible ability to yield the power of Thor.
Watch the video of the real-life Thor's hammer this witty and geeky engineer created, below!
