Suit of the future: Hague’s Institute of Human Obsolescence figures out how to use human body to mine coins

The suit invented by the Institute of Human Obsolescence in Hague allows to mine cryptocurrency by using the human body heat. Photos on The Next Web and a small video on Youtube contain people dressed in these suits lying on beds, making the experiment look either as a grotesque cyberpunk movie or a bunch of extreme geeks.

How does this work? Thermoelectric generators are the main component. They collect body heat and transform it into energy used for mining. The scientists decided to choose the new altcoins because the mining of them is not difficult yet, and the test subjects were working 212 hours, thus collecting 127,210 milliwatts of energy. Almost 17,000 coins have been mined, and 80% of them went to test subjects as a reward, while 20% of share is now owned by the institute.

This is no doubt one of the most interesting projects connected with mining by far, and it actually works, unlike that Tesla miner. However, one can see two obvious flaws in this mechanism: firstly, the difficulty of mining must not be too high which means no, you can’t just get bitcoins using your body heat, and secondly, nobody knows if there’s going to be a consumer version and how much will it cost.