Student Let Thief Steal His Phone So He Could Spy On Him And Make This Documentary
Having his phone stolen gave film student Anthony van der Meer an idea for his greatly successful movie Find my Phone . To make it, he had another phone stolen, except this time he installed the hidden tracking app beforehand, in the hopes to explore what kind of person would steal a phone? And where do these phones end up?
It was possible thanks to the app called Cerberus , which allowed Anthony to track and even control his phone whenever it got online. Van der Meer used the app to log thief’s calls, messages, location and even the audio and video information that goes through the phone.
It’s a thrilling glimpse into what technology is able to do already and a thought provoking question – what should we do with it?
More info: anthonyvdmeer.nl (h/t: petapixel , boredpanda )
Update: the newest login tracked the phone’s location to Romania.
Andrius
In cahoots with the secret orde… With nobody. In cahoots with nobody.
This Guy Made Real-Life Thor Hammer That Only He Can Lift
Thor’s hammer Mjolnir has an awesome anti-theft device in that it can’t be lifted by the unworthy. A fan recreated this feature with his own hammer. Not having access to the magic of the Norse gods, he opted to use electromagnets (salvaged from a microwave) and a thumbprint scanner. If anyone who doesn’t have their print recorded tries to lift the pseudo-Mjolnir, they can’t – as long as the hammer stays on a metal surface!
The hammer doesn’t return to the wielder’s arm and won’t get stuck to non-metal surface – we probably need about 20 years of technological and nerd engineer evolution for those features. The hammer was made by YouTube user “Sufficiently Advanced” (Allen Pan). The name is a reference to the third law of British sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
More info: youtube.com (h/t: wired )
Many have tried to lift Mjolnir…
…but none succeeded!
Only the worthy – or the hammer’s creator Allen Pan – can pick it up!
The magic rests mainly in a salvaged microwave electromagnet and a thumbprint scanner.
See why only the worthy can lift Mjolnir, Hammer Of Thor:
Martynas Klimas
Writes like a mad dervish, rolls to dodge responsibility, might have bitten the Moon once.
